Northumbria Police
Trauma Therapist
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Salary: Band 9, £42,861 - £49,716 per annum (£21,430.50 - £24,858 pro rata)
Location
This role is agile, you may be required to travel across the force area to provide face to face assessment and therapy sessions
Hours/Contract
18.5 hours per week, Permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our People Department as a Trauma Therapist.
You will be required to work closely with the Trauma Lead to maintain our high standard of wellbeing and trauma support to the workforce. To provide assessment and therapy to members of the workforce following exposure to potentially traumatic incidents as appropriate and as directed by the Trauma Lead.
What you’ll do
- Assessment and Therapy: provide evidence-based trauma therapies in person such as EMDR to referred individuals, ensuring ethical practice and workplace safety.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Use theory and research to support practice, stay updated on relevant legislation and policies.
- Case Management: Maintain accurate, confidential case notes in line with procedures and guidelines.
- Professional Development: Participate in CPD training and development to uphold high professional standards.
- Collaboration: Work with Trauma Lead and Wellbeing Manager to explore opportunities to develop the trauma support model.
- Wellbeing Support: Offer advice and signposting on wellbeing issues, encouraging proactive health management.
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What you’ll bring
Qualifications:
- Counselling Diploma Level 5+
- Full EMDR Qualification
- Accredited with BACP (or equivalent)
Skills and Experience:
- Experience in EMDR and Trauma Treatment: Specifically with adult clients following recent trauma.
- Case Management: Ability to keep accurate and up-to-date case notes.
- Time Management: Effectively manage time to meet caseload and other work demands.
- Independence: Ability to work independently and process complex information.
- Caseload Management: Manage your own caseload, providing evidence-based trauma treatments.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Trauma Therapist with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
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We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period. If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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