# 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 use our service.

You will be expected to work 38.5 hours a week (Days and night shifts) across a 7-day rota. Between (7:30am to 8:00pm) and (7:30pm to 8:00am).

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

Sunrise Ward is our 14-bed highly specialised eating disorder service for women, including those with extremely low BMIs. We focus on supporting individuals to attain a healthy BMI and prepare for a return to home.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

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

- Plan and deliver social therapy observations and activities and determine their effectiveness

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

- Monitor, evaluate, and adapt ongoing clinical work according to each individual's needs

- Attend clinical meetings and communicate with colleagues, agencies, and families/carers

- Comply with the codes of practice

We are looking for someone who is:

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

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

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

In return, we offer:

- £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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Social Therapy
- Psychology

### Nice to have
- multidisciplinary team
- evidence-based framework

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