Location
London - Cygnet Hospital Ealing

Hours
38.5 hours per week, working days and night shifts across a 7-day rota between 7:30am to 8:00pm and 7:30pm to 8:00am

Salary
£14.50 Per Hour (Increasing to £14.80 per hour after 3 months)

About the Role
Helping others improve and turn their lives around - there is no better feeling. Join Cygnet Health Care at our Ealing hospital as a Social Therapist, working as part of a multidisciplinary team on an in-patient ward. With supervision, support and training, you will deliver interventions defined within personalised care plans, engaging and supporting service users, families, carers and friends through their recovery pathway. You will facilitate activities, groups and ward-based projects and be actively involved in all aspects of the physical, psychological and social care of people using our service.
New Dawn Ward is a 9-bedded female specialist Tier 4 service providing treatment, care and support for women with personality disorders ready to engage in therapy. Cygnet Hospital Ealing offers a welcoming, non-institutional environment with personalised treatment for service users with eating disorders or personality disorders across two separate wards.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include assessing service users for social therapy as part of multidisciplinary needs assessments, planning and delivering social therapy observations and activities, providing individual and group therapy related to social situations, monitoring and adapting clinical work according to individual needs, attending clinical meetings, and communicating with colleagues, agencies, families and carers. You will also comply with professional codes of practice.
Please note due to the nature of the service we can only currently take on female applicants.

Experience
Experience within a care environment or a strong passion for working in this setting is essential. Preferably experienced working within a multidisciplinary team and using an evidence-based framework.

About you
Committed to making a difference, able to work collaboratively within a team, and willing to engage with service users and their support networks. A UK driving licence holder is preferred as you may be required to escort service users on visits and trips.

Qualifications
Qualified in Social Therapy with a Degree, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters or equivalent. Registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).