Sociotherapist

£38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year, £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 22/03/2026

To assist in comprehensive assessments of clients needs and suitability for engaging within the Resettle service.

As part of a team, to ensure the intervention runs utilising the Resettle principles with a high level of service user participation.

To provide knowledge, experience and clinical competencies in the Resettle model of working therapeutically with service users.

Work as part of a team providing a specific specialised therapy to participants who experience emotional and behavioural difficulties sometimes known as personality disorder, requiring a high degree of professionalism due to the highly emotive and distressing problems presented.

To assist in the management of the workload of the team, trainees, therapists within the framework of the day programme.

To provide, and assist in preparing, reports to parole boards amongst other professionals.

To liaise with other professionals regarding senior managers, department heads, general managers, ward managers and trainers and provide expert knowledge on treating clients using the democratic model.

Through the day programme, enable service users to exercise their rights and promote their equality and diversity.

Working as part of a team, effectively plan, prioritise and manage a caseload.

Provide an assessment service to establish the need for Resettle for those referred.

This will involve travelling to different prison including those outside the region.

To participate in referral meetings and risk management procedures/meetings are held involving all staff.

To assist with admission and discharge procedures and ensure the up keep of comprehensive group and individual records.

To attend relevant Oral Hearing, Mappa, professional meetings when required.

Ability to work and engage with people from marginalised backgrounds.

Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of clinical and working practice within the area of Mental Health/ Probation Offender Management.

To participate and assist in the clinical activities of the Resettle service as a clinician assessing and treating referrals to the service both as individuals and in groups.

To contribute in the assessment and communication of complex interpretations/ideas based upon group members verbal and non-verbal communications and assist them in understanding the meaning behind their risky and distressing thoughts and behaviours.

Demonstrate an ability to maintain professional boundaries.

Be able to manage own anxiety and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.

Demonstrate an ability to work in a group setting that can be antagonistic and emotive.

Demonstrate an ability to cope with and manage pronounced psychological and emotional pressure when working with highly sensitive information that may be distressing.

Be able to deal with highly distressing situations, e.g. extremely challenging behaviour, trauma, violence and abuse issues and/or thought patterns that can be refractory.

Maintain a safe environment by effective risk management and via upholding the groups structures and boundaries.