Clinical Practitioner - Specialist Team WCC621433

Hampshire County Council; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire County Council seeks a dedicated Clinical Practitioner to join the Changing Futures Specialist Team. The role involves providing sensitive, holistic therapeutic support to vulnerable young adults facing multiple disadvantages. You'll collaborate within a multidisciplinary team and ensure that the principles of inclusion and cultural sensitivity are at the forefront of your practice. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of disadvantaged youths in Westminster.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Agile working options

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Support for Care Leavers

Disability Confident Employer status

Qualifications

• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team providing therapeutic interventions.
• Knowledge of trauma-focused interventions and high-risk behaviors.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide therapeutic support to individuals aged 18-25 experiencing disadvantages.
• Contribute to team training and supervision to develop evidence-based practice.
• Deliver therapy in a culturally sensitive manner and via interpreters when necessary.

Skills

Therapeutic interventions

Cultural sensitivity

Interpersonal skills

Education

Professional qualification in Psychotherapy, Psychology or Systemic Family Therapy

UKCP or BACP registration

Job description

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Clinical Practitioner - Specialist Team WCC621433

Salary range: £54,684 - £57,726 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: 4 Frampton Street, London, NW8 8LF
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Fixed term until 31 March 2027
Closing date: 27 July 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 4 August 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SHOFA’S MARKET

Children’s Services in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where courageous and inspiring professionals bring everything to their work.

Sometimes this even includes heartbreak. Shofa is a shining example. Shofa’s brother suffered with his mental health and died tragically young. She uses his memory as motivation to give Westminster Youth Council members the opportunity to have a voice and get involved in decision making. This passion resulted in in her innovation: The Westminster Youth Market. Here local teenagers learn about entrepreneurship and develop their personal skills. This is an inclusive platform where everyone’s contribution and abilities are celebrated. Inspired by a promising life cut short, Shofa believes without vision there is no direction and every young person should be supported to realise their dreams.

Please view the extraordinary story of Shofa’s Market here.

The Role:

As a Clinical Practitioner, you too can make a powerful contribution. We are looking for a therapist from a relevant discipline to join Westminster’s Changing Futures Specialist Team.

The Specialist Team strive to provide non-judgemental, sensitive, holistic support to individuals aged 18-25, who are experiencing multiple disadvantages, including homelessness, criminal involvement, substance misuse, mental health needs and domestic abuse.

As Clinical Practitioner, you will work within a multidisciplinary team which includes a Practice Manager, a Senior Practitioner, six Specialist Practitioners with backgrounds in social work, education and homelessness, and two Assistant Practitioners. The team are motivated towards empowering disadvantaged young adults to manage negative emotions, makes sense of their traumas, advocate for themselves and improve social inclusion. We operate within a Compassion Focused Therapy Model, in which all practitioners are trained in, and seeks a culturally sensitive, skilled therapist to provide direct clinical interventions which are responsive, relational, and trauma-informed.

Through training, you will become proficient at using our Compassion Focused approach for therapeutic intervention, complementing this with your broad knowledge of therapeutic models and techniques. You will also receive regular supervision and consultation on clinical practice, development and service delivery.

As Clinical Practitioner, you’ll provide highly specialist consultation on complex cases to practitioners and other multi-agency partners. You will contribute to the training and supervision of staff within the specialist team, ensuring the development of evidence-based skills and practice and will provide reflective practice for the team.

The ideal candidate is experienced working in a multi-disciplinary team providing a range of therapeutic interventions to young adults (our focus is 18 -25) and their families. Westminster has a diverse ethnic community. So, it’s important that our Clinical Practitioner is mindful of the needs of black and ethnic minoritised groups. As well as ready to be proactive in ensuring that the overall ethos of our therapeutic service is an inclusive and welcoming one. At times, you may need to deliver therapy via an interpreter, in a culturally sensitive manner.

It would be desirable for you to be specialised in trauma-focused interventions and have experience working with individuals that engage in high risk behaviours. You are robust at identifying and managing risks, undertaking assessment of therapeutic need, analysing complex information and providing teaching and consultation where necessary.

The young people we work with experience multiple disadvantages and often have a high number of adverse childhood experiences. We need someone not only knowledgeable about the impact of these factors on emotional wellbeing, but with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in non-pathological manner, helping young people to see their abilities and strengths. You’ll be motivated to create a non-judgemental, receptive environment for the young people of Westminster.

You are confident working independently with service users in a variety of settings, such as family homes, hostels, public spaces and council buildings.

You will have a professional qualification in any accredited school of Psychotherapy, Psychology or Systemic Family Therapy. You are UKCP or BACP registered and have evidence of continuing post-qualification professional development.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visithttps://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.