We value the ability to engage clients in healing across mind, body and spirit. You will be compassionate, patient and courageous in managing a range of vulnerabilities experienced by our clients and their families. We believe in cultural respect. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working with clients from many cultural and religious backgrounds and who is able to flexibly and thoughtfully adapt their practice to suits client needs. We are looking for someone who enjoys developing their practice by making use of QPASTT’s supervision, internal training, team building and professional development opportunities.

Requirements:

1. Degree level qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Occupational Therapy or relevant expressive therapies, such as art and/or play therapy. Eligibility for membership of the relevant professional body.
2. Good conceptualisation and ability to articulate refugee trauma recovery frameworks and the ability to apply these to therapeutic work with children and young people. This includes an understanding of key theories related to trauma recovery, child development and attachment.
3. Two years of professional therapeutic experience, including experience working with children and young people and/or whole families.
4. Ability to build trusting, safe and respectful relationships with children, young people and their families to respond to their varying psychosocial needs.
5. Ability to deliver culturally safe support.
6. Ability to identify client-related risks and implement ways to reduce risk.
7. Ability to document assessment and intervention as well as write professional reports based on therapeutic intervention.
8. Desirable – experience in working with clients from refugee backgrounds and/or linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds