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’s no better feeling. Join Cygnet Health Care and be part of a team making a difference for thousands of people across more than 150 UK sites. As a Social Therapist at Cygnet Hospital Ealing, you will work 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, spending time engaging, connecting, and supporting service users, families, carers, and friends through their recovery pathway.

You will help 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. The 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 relating to social situations, monitoring and adapting clinical work according to individual needs, attending clinical meetings, and communicating with colleagues, agencies, and families/carers. You will also be expected to 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
You will be compassionate, motivated, and committed to supporting service users through their recovery. A UK driving licence is required as you may be asked 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).