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Role: Systematic Family Therapist
Salary: Grade L £48,710 – £51,802 a year
Location: Council House/Hybrid Working/In settings as required
Hours: 37 hours a week
Closing Date: 8 January 2024
Contract Type: Fixed Term for 1 year
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
• Flexible work/life balance scheme
• Hybrid working
• Modern office environment
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years’ service), plus bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers
The Opportunity
Working closely with a team of other professionals, you will be shaping an exciting new service that will support the needs of children, young people and families in Derby City. Intervention First is a new programme providing targeted and specialist support to the under 7’s who may have a range of complex SEND. Your role will be to work in a holistic way with their families to understand and support the wider needs they may have around access to education and wider social inclusion needs.
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have…
Graduate level qualification or equivalent with outlined professional registration of either HCPC or BCAP in the appropriate therapies.
Demonstratable expertise and practice with highly vulnerable young people and their families.
The ability to shape and develop a service based on best practice and local needs.
An unrelenting drive to support children and young people have the best outcomes in life.
Next Steps
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 20 December 2024. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held on teams, week commencing 7 January 2025
Please apply online or send a CV to lorna.fry@derby.gov.uk
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK – 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
