Children S Services Play Therapist

Job Description

Children’s Services Play Therapist

Job Title: / Children’s Services Play Therapist (Recovering Together)
Salary Range/Grade: / Grade G Spinal Points 28-33
£24,969-29,324 (pro-rata)
Hours: / 16 hours per week
Training Band: / 2
Work base: / Tidworth Children’s Centre
Reporting To: / Children’s Services Lead
Main Purpose of Job:

To support the delivery of the Recovering play therapy service, ensuring the contract is met within Spurgeon’s organisational strategies and policies.

Performance Fundamentals:
Spurgeons has identified three performance fundamentals applicable to all roles in the organisation:

Providing Excellent Services
Managing Self and Others
Managing Resources

All job tasks and competencies are aligned with these performance fundamentals.
Performance Indicators and Targets:

Safeguarding incident reporting to timescale
Customer satisfaction is good
OFSTED Readiness Plans in place and responsive when OFSTED calls
Delivery of service to contracted outputs and outcomes (eg Estart reporting; Soft Smart data
entry)
100% Health and Safety Accident reporting
Compliance with organisation audits
Fully compliance of Complaints policy
To adhere to Spurgeons vision and mission and to demonstrate Spurgeons core values of compassion, inclusivity and hopefulness in performing the essential duties and responsibilities of your job

Job Description
Providing Excellent Services

To contribute to the day to day delivery of service contract, ensuring play therapy is delivered in accordance with the Spurgeons’ Core Values, behaviours and the highest professional standards.
To ensure the service team keeps up to date information about other existing provisions for children, parents and carers to signpost to appropriate services.
To demonstrate quality safeguarding practise, ensuring that the Service operates within the procedures for the relevant Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Spurgeons’ policies and procedures, and consistently applying Spurgeons’ safeguarding reporting, monitoring and audit process.
To maintain clinical records according to current legislation and in line with Spurgeons’ processes and the Recovering Together requirements.
To develop evidence based practise, monitoring outcomes and sharing evidence of outcomes with the Recovering Together worker and project lead, to inform the Military of Defence of effective outcomes.
To operate within Spurgeons’ management information and monitoring processes, ensuring that data is collected and analysed to enable effective decision making that improves performance and delivers outcomes.
To ensure that effective monitoring and evaluation systems are used to accurately record and reflect on the work of the service.
To evaluate clinical treatment in liaison with an external clinical supervisor.

Managing Self and Others

To undertake any necessary professional development and training activity as may be reasonably required keeping abreast of developments in Play Therapy and the project.
To attend regular supervision and annual appraisals.
To work within a team approach and ethic within the defined area of responsibility, attending meetings and other events as appropriate.
To be a strong advocate for the Service; working in conjunction with our marketing department, to promote this in a manner that is sensitive to the armed forces community.
To work alongside Recovering Together project staff and Children’s Centre staff and across multi-agency partners (with a particular focus on Splitz and Army Welfare Service)

Managing Resources

To assist with the day to day maintenance and security of the play bus in conjunction with the Children’s Centre Play Therapist before and after any therapy sessions.
To work within Spurgeons’ Health and Safety policies and procedures, ensuring that working and service delivery environments are safe.

Person Specification
Attainments / In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have: / Criteria

Qualifications

Full member of the British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT)
Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills and Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy

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Experience

Evidence of professional experience working in multi agency services for children and families in their community,

Evidence of significant early years experience.

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Work Based Knowledge

Assessment and treatment of children and their families and carers
Evidence of clinical skills with children and families
Understanding of and commitment to evidence based practise
An understanding and commitment to effective safeguarding
Knowledge of the military demographic

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Skills

Ability to work independently and to manage a caseload
Ability to establish clear professional boundaries
Commitment to ongoing professional learning
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Excellent IT skills and ability to use Microsoft packages

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Special Job

Circumstances

/ This post has the following special circumstances:

Preferably a car driver with the ability to drive a mini bus
Regular travel within the Salisbury Plain training area

Note: If you have difficulty in meeting these conditions because of a disability or family circumstances, the Chair of panel will discuss it with you in order to consider reasonable adjustments to the job or working conditions. / E / D

Competencies (expected behaviours)

Within the main performance fundamentals Spurgeons identified ten core competencies that describe expected behaviours for which staff are required to work within, at the level of their role. For each post there are essential competencies that are key in ensuring the role is done effectively which are complemented by desirable competencies.

Please refer to Spurgeons Competency Framework for detailed descriptions.

Competencies / Level / Job Critical Competencies / Other Core Competencies
PROVIDING EXCELLENT SERVICES
Focusing on the Customer
To meet customers’ (service users and colleagues) needs and aims to continuously improve the services they provide to make sure customers receive an excellent service. / 2 / x
Safeguarding People
To ensure that all service users are appropriately safeguarded and that all staff are kept safe whilst working; safeguarding being always recognised as of paramount importance. / 2 / x
Delivering Outcomes
To ensure agreed outcomes are delivered in the most efficient and timely way by embracing a creative and entrepreneurial approach. / 2 / x
MANAGING SELF AND OTHERS
Providing Direction
Leading and providing direction to individuals, supporting and enabling them to make a positive contribution to the current purpose and future vision of the organisation. / 2 / x
Working as a Team
To work effectively with other people and use the diversity of the team to create a working environment which helps achieve the tasks. / 2 / x
Developing Self and Others
To behave ethically and professionally within your role, being aware of your own and other people’s strengths and weaknesses, and take steps to learn, develop and achieve high levels of performance in yourself and others. / 2 / x
Embracing Change
To embrace change effectively within services and departments through reflective, motivating and flexible leadership and team working. / 2 / x
Communication
To ensure the effective use of written and oral communication skills to convey information and ideas to individuals and teams within and outside the organisation and create opportunities for individuals to respond and provide feedback. / 2 / x
MANAGING RESOURCES
Making Evidence Based Decisions
To identify and use various sources of evidence, making meaning of it to understand how relevant and valid it is, to enable effective decision making that improves performance and delivers outcomes. / 2 / x
Planning and Managing Resources
To make sure the organisation delivers its key priorities, tasks and forecasts; effectively manage risks, relationships and use resources in efficient ways to deliver outcomes. / 2 / x

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