# Social Therapist

**Company**: Cygnet Health Care
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £14.50
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a Social Therapist to join our team at Cygnet Hospital Ealing.

As a Social Therapist, 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 the personalised care plan, spend 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 every aspect of their physical, psychological and social care of people who uses our service.

You will be expected to work 38.5 hours a week (Days and night shifts) across a 7 day rota.

The pay rate is £14.50 Per Hour (Increasing to £14.80 per hour after 3 months).

**Please note due to the nature of the service we can only currently take on Female applicants**

New Dawn Ward is our 9 bedded female specialist Tier 4 service, providing treatment, care and support for women with a personality disorder who are ready to engage in therapy.

Cygnet Hospital Ealing provides a welcoming, non-institutional environment, offering personalised treatment for service users with an eating disorder or personality disorder over two separate wards.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

- Assessing service users for social therapy as part of a multidisciplinary needs assessment

- Planning and delivering social therapy observations and activities and determining their effectiveness

- Providing a variety of individual and group therapy work relating to social situations

- Monitoring, evaluating and adapting ongoing clinical work according to each individual's needs

- Attending clinical meetings and communicating with colleagues, agencies and families/carers

- Complying with the codes of practice.

We are looking for someone who is:

- Qualified in Social Therapy Degree/Postgraduate Diploma/Masters or equivalent

- Registered with the HCPC (Health Care Professions Council)

- Experienced within a care environment, or with a passion for working in this setting

- A UK driving licence holder who can escort service users on visits and trips when required

- Preferably experienced in a multidisciplinary team and in an evidence-based framework.

In return, we offer:

- Pay rate - £14.50 Per Hour (Increasing to £14.80 per hour after 3 months)

- Strong career progression opportunities

- Monthly reflective practice, and support with CPD opportunities

- Expert clinical supervision and peer support

- Employee referral scheme

- Pension scheme

- Cycle to work scheme and employee discount saving.

## Skills

### Required
- Social Therapy
- Multidisciplinary team
- HCPC registration
- UK driving licence

### Nice to have
- Experience in a care environment
- Evidence-based framework

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