Positive Attachment Worker

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £25,027.20 per annum

Based at: Powys – location to be agreed with successful applicant

Interviews to take place on Monday, 23rd September 2024.

Role Purpose:

To provide specialist positive attachment services to the children and young people of Powys. Delivering therapeutic training to services and organisations across Powys, to enhance positive attachment and trauma informed practice.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

To explain boundaries of confidentiality, exchange of information and informed consent (including Three Cornered Agreements) to clients.
To undertake assessments. To be able to recognize common mental health issues and draw out relevant information needed for an assessment using skilful and sensitive questioning.
To provide expertise in a specialist clinical area, undertaking specialist psychological interventions, formulating mutually agreed contracts with clients, establishing, maintaining, and disengaging from relationships with the client group. To select and deliver evidence-based client centred psychological treatments to meet the needs of the client group. With experience dealing with issues relating to young people such as ACE’S, county lines, bullying, school stress etc.
Monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical approaches.
Interventions to be delivered in accordance with relevant NICE Guidelines.
To undertake and manage own client caseload.
To be accountable for own clinical decisions and professional actions in consultation with supervisor.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information, considering sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
To work in accordance with Adferiad Recovery’s Policies and Procedures, All Wales Child Protection Procedures and North Wales Vulnerable Adults Protocol.
To refer clients to other services as appropriate. When making referrals to other services and agencies, to do this in a manner consistent with the specific referral processes used by those agencies.
To develop and deliver regular therapeutic training to services and organisations across Powys, to enhance positive attachment and trauma informed practice (both online and in person).
To undertake clinical administrative tasks and reports relating to clients when necessary.
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.

If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2791073f-8c47-4bb5-8b37-52c886c1cac9

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or 01492 863005