Senior Practitioner

Due to expansion in the Northwest, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated person to join our St Helen's Resilience Service as a Senior Practitioner. So, if you are you ready for a new challenge and are passionate about working with children and young people to support their emotional wellbeing, you might be just who we are looking for.

The Service:

The service will support the secondary school aged children living in St Helens to grow up with healthy minds, feel confident and resilient and fulfil their potential. As part of the THRIVE ‘Getting Help' model Barnardo's will provide therapeutic one to one, group work and counselling support in the community.

Senior Pratitioner – St Helen's Resilience Service

We are looking for someone to:

- Contribute to the management team.
- Line manage and nurture a team of therapeutic staff.
- Work with individual strengths to support high quality service delivery.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

- Children's and Young people's emotional health and wellbeing
- Improving outcomes for children and young people

The successful candidate must have:

- Extensive experience of overseeing the delivery of therapeutic / support interventions
- A comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding
- Extensive experience of line management

The successful candidate must also be to evidence:

That they hold a minimum of a diploma level qualification in counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, art, play, drama or music therapy which has included a practicum / placement of at least 100 hours of supervised practice.

Additional Information:

You must demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined above, and in the Job Description / Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Shortlisting Criteria

- A diploma level qualification in counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, art, play, drama or music therapy which has included a practicum / placement of at least 100 hours of supervised practice.
- Experience of overseeing the delivery of therapeutic / support interventions
- A comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding
- Experience of line management
- Experience of working with or a good understanding of children and young people's emotional health


Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
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