# Play / Creative Arts Therapist

**Company**: London Borough of Sutton
**Location**: London Borough of Sutton, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 43,449 - 53,919 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The London Borough of Sutton is seeking a Play / Creative Arts Therapist to join its multidisciplinary team within Children's Social Care. The successful candidate will deliver time-limited therapeutic interventions with vulnerable children, supporting them to express and process unconscious emotions, trauma, and difficult life experiences.

The role involves:

- Delivering individual, sibling, or group play/creative arts therapy to help children process trauma, express their narratives, and develop coping strategies

- Offering expert consultation to social workers, parents, foster carers, and multi-agency partners to increase their understanding of children's emotional and mental health needs

- Maintaining analytical casework, writing comprehensive progress reports, advocating for children in multi-agency planning meetings, and keeping detailed records

The ideal candidate will have:

- A recognised/accredited professional qualification in Play Therapy or a Creative Arts Therapy (Art, Drama, or Music)

- Substantial post-qualifying experience providing therapeutic interventions to children and young people displaying complex SEMH needs, severe trauma, loss, and challenging behaviour

- Comprehensive understanding of trauma-informed practice, attachment theories, developmental trauma, mental health modalities, and relevant child protection/mental health legislation

The London Borough of Sutton offers a range of benefits, including a generous annual leave entitlement, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, flexible working arrangements, and access to a learning and development portal.

The salary for this role is GBP 43,449 - 53,919 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Play Therapy
- Creative Arts Therapy
- trauma-informed practice
- attachment theories
- developmental trauma
- mental health modalities

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