This project is led by Recovery Connections in partnership with My Sisters Place, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. It is a much-needed service in support of people on a recovery pathway from addiction who have experienced trauma. The project will provide specialist trauma support offering participants an opportunity to build resilience and work towards recovery.
Applicants will be providing individual gender sensitive, trauma informed, one to one counselling and therapeutic services, including education and therapeutic group work to trauma experienced people with associated substance use within a community and residential rehab settings based in Middlesbrough and Gateshead. The posts include therapeutic delivery and administration support regarding all counselling and therapeutic services/projects.
Applicants will have experience in delivering, brief, mid and long term one to one evidence-based psychological interventions and be able to work from an integrative perspective including humanistic, psychodynamic, psychoeducational, CBT and trauma informed approaches into their work to meet the needs of the client group and be able to develop and facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic group work as and when required.
Successful applicants will have an in depth knowledge and training in a recognized psychological model/s. Have significant experience of working with domestic abuse, substance use and with complex trauma-based presentations in a therapeutic environment with a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
Applicants should be accredited, or working towards accreditation and registered with an appropriate professional body.
Job Outline and Requirements
The Trauma Support Service will provide psychological therapies and resilience programmes to individuals already in treatment or recovery support for problematic drug and alcohol use.
The service will work alongside Recovery Connections in Middlesbrough and Gateshead.
The Lead Practitioner will have a caseload in addition to overseeing the planning and performance of the project. The team will consist of a women’s specialist practitioner and a part time administrator and volunteers.
3 Year Fixed Term Contract (renewal subject to funding)
Contact
Laura Reid
01642 351 976
info@recoveryconnections.org.uk
The closing date for this job is 29 May 2020 - 4:30pm.