Location
Wandsworth
Department
Learning and Practice (L&P)
Advertising Salary
up to £35,051 pro rata
Careers Site Advertising End Date
17 Dec 2023
HoursHours Per Week:
21

About The Role

Permanent opportunities available
Variable hours + days: Between 7-35 hours/Mon-Fri
Location: Range of schools within the Wandsworth borough

As Peripatetic Project Manager you will effectively cover and manage all aspects of the Place2Be service provision in partnership with Secondary Schools in Wandsworth, ensuring that the children and young people are provided with therapeutic and emotional support. In addition this exciting new project will also work within the community to provide essential mental health support.

The position will provide high quality services in schools such as new school set up, you will effectively manage all aspects of the project ensuring that young people are provided with the right therapeutic and emotional support they need to manage a range of life issues. 

Some of the areas of responsibility:
  • Assessment and Formulation process for children and young people referred to the service and allocate them to a suitable targeted intervention where appropriate
  • Undertake one-to-one clinical work with children and/or young people 
  •  Build, develop and maintain effective professional relationships with the Head teacher, School Leadership Team and the wider community to deliver Place2Be’s model of counselling and therapeutic support
  • Note any safeguarding and child protection concerns; giving advice and support in regards to clinical work and supporting the development of clinical skills and experience
  • Identify and discuss potential referrals with school and community staff and keeping the line manager informed
  • Identify and report any safeguarding and child protection concerns following Place2Be’s policies and procedures
  •  Provide Place2Think sessions to staff
  • Provide Parent Partnership sessions and other parent work to parents and carers
  • Identify and report any safeguarding concerns about any vulnerable adults following Place2Be’s policies and procedures
  • When required, make recommendations and consult with the school/community leaders for referral onto external services
  • Be pro-active in reporting safeguarding issues and concerns, to the school/community leaders and line management, in accordance with Place2Be and Wandsworth Single Point of Access policy
  • Understanding of working with children and young people who require or would benefit from emotional and therapeutic support and experience of working within a school and/or community environment
 
Reporting evaluating and data entry
  • Provide termly reports in accordance with Place2Be guidelines and in conjunction with your line manager, undertake an annual review of the service and produce a report to be shared with the school
  • Using data to inform practice and improve impact
  • Accountable for inputting data on Place2Be’s School Services System relating to all activities and interventions in the setting in a timely and accurate manner
  • Comply with Place2Be data entry requirements on the School Service System
  • Makes good use of online management systems, such as diary planning etc
  • Comply with Wandsworth Single Point of Access process and procedures

 

 

What difference will I make, working as a Peripatetic Project Manager at Place2Be? - Watch to see how you can change the lives of primary and secondary school children all across the UK

 

About You

The successful candidate:
 
Will have a recognised counselling or therapy qualification with substantial post-qualifying experience, along with a good knowledge of the school environment. Most important of all is your approach; we are an exciting, dynamic organisation doing amazing work so we're looking for people with the enthusiasm and commitment to match our own. 
 
You will:
  • Hold a recognised qualification in counselling or therapy
  • Hold a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (BACP/ PTUK/ UKCP/NCS/BPS)
  • Have qualified experience in a clinical role with children and young people and an understanding of (children, young people)
  • Clear understanding of child protection policy and procedures and commitment to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
  • Understanding of working with children and young people who require or would benefit from emotional and therapeutic support and experience of the school environment
  • Ability to provide clinical and managerial supervision to Counsellors on Placement (dependent on school model) and to ensure their integration into the school (and/or community) environment
  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs of service users and stakeholders and range of service provision offered to support them across Place2Be

 

Recruitment process

Closing date for receipt of all applications: Midnight on 11/12/2023 (Please note applications will be processed and interviews conducted throughout the recruitment period)

1st Interview date: TBC via Video Call/location
 
 
Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.
 
Please feel free to contact our Recruitment team via [email protected] if you have any questions about this role.
 

 

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

  • Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
  • Robust Learning and Development Programme
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
  • Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
  • Extended maternity/paternity pay
If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.
 
Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.
 
Diversity and Inclusion

Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from applicants from underrepresented groups.

Additionally, for our clinical roles we are particularly keen in attracting male candidates to reflect the diversity of the partner schools and communities we work in. 

All successful applicants to clinical roles will be asked to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS/PVG.

We are an organisation that is  fully committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and take this responsibility seriously.

About Us

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. The charity currently provides an embedded mental health service in 500 UK primary and secondary schools supporting a school community of around 243,000 children and young people.

Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life. Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the comprehensive CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) system.

Through our professional development programme, we are training around 1,200 Counsellors on Placement each year who build their mental health and counselling skills and experience through practice in our partner schools. We also provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, so we can help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish. 

  

We continue to pilot, trial and explore new ways in which we can develop our practice as well as share learning, expertise and findings from the robust evidence and evaluation we gather. HRH The Princess of Wales is our Royal Patron and Place2Be is one of the founding charity partners of Heads Together. We also work collaboratively with a range of charities and expert organisations to leverage best-in-class knowledge and expertise to inform, develop and improve outcomes for the children, families and schools we support. We ask our staff team to share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity, and to have the skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and families.

 

Our values:

We believe that how we approach our work is as important as the work itself. Our four key values shape everything we do: 

Compassion – We bring empathy and kindness to all we do, to better understand and meet the needs of children and young people, colleagues and other stakeholders.

Integrity – We demonstrate sound ethical values in all our work, and we are honest, transparent, courageous and authentic.

Perseverance – We have the courage to continue in the face of adversity and do this with determination to find effective solutions.

Creativity – We bring an open-minded approach and flexibility to our thinking and actions and enable others to do the same.

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