Key Role Information

Salary
31,000
Job type
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Closing
27/06/2025 18:16
Interview
01/07/2025
Contract term
TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks
Hours per week
40.00
Weeks per year
38.000
Visa sponsorship
No

Your Role

Red Balloon Norfolk is seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to develop and deliver our new Centres therapeutic offering in the role of Senior Therapist. The successful candidate will be qualified to Level 6 or above in one or more therapy modalities, which may include Integrative, CBT, Art or Play Solution Focused Therapy alongside specialised training or experience working with children and adolescents and will possess valuable experience in leading and supporting another on-site therapist/counsellor.


As a key member of the team, you will be confident in being fully integrated and visible within the Centre, being involved in the student process from the point of potential admission. You will be an active part of the collaborative team around the young person and will be involved in day-to-day participation as part of the staff and student community.


With a maximum student number of 20, you will have the opportunity to work with students in small groups and in a 1:1 therapeutic capacity. As a new role, we look forward to hearing from candidates who are keen and confident to have a vision for how our therapeutic offering can be delivered throughout our provision.

If you are ready to make a profound impact on the lives of our students and contribute to their wellbeing and education we invite you to consider becoming a part of our dynamic team.


Some key responsibilities of this role include:

  • Maintain overview of the therapeutic input for all RBET- Norfolk students;
  • Track student progression via tracking tools such as YPCORE10 and/or SDQ for example;
  • Individual caseload oversight and new student allocation;
  • Collaborate with Head of Centre to develop and deliver the Student Wellbeing team strategy;
  • Understand the therapeutic needs of children who may have mental health problems (e.g. anxiety, depression, PTSD), school-related anxieties or refusal, SEN, extremely low academic confidence and self-esteem, and to adjust the therapeutic approach to meet individual student needs;
  • Deliver therapy sessions to students via face-to-face sessions in Centre;
  • Support students in crisis by working in collaboration with the wider team to ensure suitable support is available either externally or via Red Balloon.


To be considered for this role as a minimum you will need:

  • Minimum of Level 6 Clinical/therapeutic qualification as a counsellor, psychologist, social worker, psychotherapist, or family therapist and be accredited or be working towards accreditation with a relevant professional body (e.g. BACP, BPS, or UKCP)
  • Experience working with young people and their families
  • Specialised training or experience working with children and adolescent


Please see the attached job description for further information.

Qualifications

Counselling Skills qualificationessential

Skills

Experience

Experience of working with SEND and SEMH young peopleessential

Leadership

Adaptable - ability to adapt style to a variery of situations and peopleessential

Personal Attributes

Committedessential

Relevant Skills

Excellent IT skills and experience with using the Microsoft Suite.

About Us

RBET - Norfolk is a cohesive team of qualified teachers, wellbeing and therapy staff and everyone understands the ethos of our approach. We aim to restore our students’ sense of self-worth and faith in their peers, education staff and the education system as a whole. Our environment supports and encourages good role models so that students can develop relationships that are founded on active listening, speaking the truth, taking responsibility for their actions and acting with integrity. We treat all our young people according to their own unique and individual needs.


At Red Balloon, any adult working with our young people offers warm, non-judgmental support so that they feel accepted, valued, respected and appreciated for who they are. All children at our centre have had traumatic experiences, which means they will show their feelings in a range of ways. We understand that behaviour is an expression of feelings and we help them to express these appropriately, moving on to behaving in a respectful and considerate manner. Through our range of therapy and 1-1 mentoring, we encourage our young people to trust their own perception of what is happening, trust that they can manage their own behaviour and appropriately judge how to behave according to the situation presented.

Red Balloon Educational Trust

Louise Fisher

louise.fisher@rbet.ac

76 Earlham Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 3DF
Louise Fisher
louise.fisher@rbet.ac

Safeguarding Information

Every learner has the right to flourish and be safe from harm and abuse. As a professional within Red Balloon Educational Trust; we all have a duty to keep our students safe and healthy.


Safeguarding is the action taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. It means:

  • protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
  • preventing harm to children's health or development
  • ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
  • taking action to enable all children and young people have the best outcomes


Red Balloon Educational Trust has policies and procedures to ensure that every single learner, regardless of their age, disability, gender, race, religion, or belief, sex or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm. It's so important that everyone at Red Balloon Educational Trust knows what to look out for and how to report any concerns.


Safeguarding policies may be available at Trust level or be held by each Centre individually. All Safeguarding related policies and procedures are available on our website. Every Centre will ensure all staff complete training to ensure we all understand good practice and how to safeguard our learners and ourselves.


Due to the role involving engaging in regulated activity with young people, it is an offence to apply for the role if the you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Safeguarding is Red Balloon Educational Trust's priority. No member of staff will have access to work with learners until all required training has been completed.