Location
London - Cygnet Hospital Ealing

Hours
38.5 hours per week, including days and night shifts across a 7-day rota (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. At Cygnet Health Care, we support thousands of people across more than 150 sites in the UK. We are seeking a Social Therapist to join our team at Cygnet Hospital Ealing. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team on an in-patient ward, delivering interventions defined within personalised care plans. With supervision, support, and training, you will engage, connect, and support service users, families, carers, and friends throughout 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 role is based on Sunrise Ward, a 14-bed highly specialised eating disorder service for women, including those with extremely low BMIs. The focus is on supporting individuals to attain a healthy BMI and prepare for a return home. Cygnet Hospital Ealing provides a welcoming, non-institutional environment offering personalised treatment for service users with eating disorders or personality disorders over 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, and determining their effectiveness. You will provide individual and group therapy related to social situations, monitor and adapt ongoing clinical work according to individual needs, attend clinical meetings, and communicate with colleagues, agencies, and families/carers. Compliance with professional codes of practice is expected.

Please note: Due to the nature of the service, we are currently only able to accept female applicants.

Experience
Experience within a care environment is preferred but not essential. Passion for working in this setting is important. Experience working within a multidisciplinary team and using an evidence-based framework is desirable.

About you
Committed to making a difference, motivated to support recovery, and able to work effectively within a team. You should be adaptable, compassionate, and able to engage with service users and their support networks.

Qualifications
Qualified in Social Therapy or hold a Psychology Degree, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters, or equivalent qualification.