Senior Clinical Therapist – Children Services

Overview

Job Purpose

Croydon Council have an exciting opportunity for a senior therapist to join Croydon Council's innovative and dynamic clinical service in Croydon, working in the Children and Families Services. Within this role, you will provide clinical consultations to frontline staff, deliver therapeutic interventions, train, supervise, and support reflective practice groups.

You will be working alongside Croydon Council's Systemic Practice Lead, supporting Croydon Council's practice framework that has systemic practice at its foundation. Croydon Council is keen to ensure that Croydon Council's clinical services are bespoke, flexible, and offer timely responses. Croydon Council wish to recruit an experienced family therapist with supervisory experience who is open to outreach working practices; holding in mind the importance of well-being through relational practices, an understanding of social conditions, and power.

Croydon Council have a clear practice framework which privileges relationship-based practice as a medium for change and Croydon Council have invested in a whole systems approach to systemic training for all staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical consultations to frontline staff.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions tailored to children and families.
• Train and supervise staff, ensuring high standards of practice.
• Support reflective practice groups.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package.
• 29-31 days (grade equivalent) annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays and the option to purchase more.
• A pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%.
• Continuing Professional Development with genuine opportunities to grow, develop, and specialise in your career.
• Management development programmes.
• Investment into your wellbeing.
• Access to Employee Discount scheme with a range of programmes (Cycle Benefit Scheme, GymFlex, Retail Discounts, and more).
• Flexible & hybrid working arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance.

Why Join Croydon Council

• Weekly meetings to ensure colleagues have the support required to fulfil their duties.
• An ethos of working together to make positive change.
• Manageable caseloads enabling high standards of practice.
• Opportunity to work from home and work flexibly.

About You

• Experienced, accredited, and registered family and systemic psychotherapist with a qualification in systemic supervision.
• Able to work in diverse ways with children, young people, carers, and networks.
• Creative, with the ability to teach and undertake direct work using a multitude of skills.
• Experience within a statutory children’s service to effect positive outcomes for children and young people.
• Keen to practice privileging the importance of relationships and engaging effectively with Croydon Council's residents and partners.

Croydon Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced barring DBS check.