Job Title:
Social Care Worker
Job Title:
Social Care Worker
Job type:
Part time or full-time
Specialism:
Children in Care, Fostering, Child Protection, Mental Health, Parenting, Challenging Behaviour, Residential Working
Working pattern:
37.5 hours per week. Includes evenings, weekends, nights and travel.
Closing date is:
12pm Tuesday 1st August 2023
Salary:
Aligned to HSE consolidated pay scale, dependent on experience.
Reporting to:
Service Coordinator
Location:
Cork City & County
Childhood Matters is recruiting a Social Care Worker to work across our child in care clinical services and strengthen our multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will be a member of Childhood Matters, providing high quality, trauma informed child and family support while working on a multidisciplinary team. They will work within a therapeutic framework, and be highly self-reflective and able to model this with the foster carers/children/parents/staff they are working with.
Childhood Matters has a combination of site-based and home-based services. Interventions are attachment-focussed and incorporate dyadic and systemic ways of working with the child, carers and team around them, drawing on models such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP); Theraplay; Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) approaches, Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI), Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW), among others. Our Multidisciplinary Team is currently comprised of clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a play therapist, child art psychotherapist and specialist occupational therapist and social care staff.
Successful candidates will take a key role in contributing to MDT discussions of each referred child’s needs as well as those of the system around them. They will liaise with partner agencies to endeavour to achieve positive outcomes for children in care and their carers, working to build/restore placement stability and enhance key relationships in the child’s family/support network.
The role will include offering specialist training and consultation to colleagues and the wider team/system around the child, such as social workers, teachers, foster carers, and residential and support workers supporting children in care.
Childhood Matters is a trauma-informed and equal-opportunity employer. We offer competitive salary packages as well as benefits including enhanced maternity leave; pension contribution scheme; health care plans; flexible working hours; internal and externally provided training opportunities, and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidates will be expected to:
Role Requirements
Factor
Requirements
Communication and Relationships
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Planning and Organisational Skills
Responsibility for Information Resources
Emotional Resilience
For further information, or to discuss the post, please contact hr@childhood-matters.ie
Job Title:
Occupational Therapist
Job type:
Part time or full-time
Specialism:
Children in Care, Fostering, Child Protection, Mental Health, Sensory Integration, Multidisciplinary Working
Working pattern:
37.5 hours per week including evenings, nights and weekends
Closing date is:
12pm Tuesday 1st August 2023
Salary:
Aligned to HSE consolidated pay scale, dependent on experience.
Reporting to:
Service Coordinator
Location:
Cork City & County
Childhood Matters are recruiting an Occupational Therapist to work across our child in care clinical services and strengthen our multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will be a member of Childhood Matters, providing high quality, trauma informed child and family support while working as part on a multidisciplinary team. They will be able to work within a therapeutic framework, and be highly self-reflective and able to model this with the foster carers/children/parents/staff they are working with.
Childhood Matters has a combination of site-based and home-based services. Interventions are attachment-focussed and incorporate dyadic and systemic ways of working with the child, carers and team around them, drawing on models such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP); Theraplay; Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) approaches, Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI), Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW), among others.
Our Multidisciplinary Team is currently comprised of clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, social care workers, a play therapist, child art psychotherapist and specialist occupational therapist and social care staff.
Successful candidates will take a key role in contributing to MDT discussions of each referred child’s needs as well as those of the system around them, formulating the presenting difficulties and considering appropriate intervention.
Childhood Matters is a trauma-informed and equal-opportunity employer. We offer competitive salary packages as well as benefits including enhanced maternity leave; pension contribution scheme; health care plans; flexible working hours; internal and externally provided training opportunities, and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidates will be expected to:
Role Requirements
Factor
Requirements
Communication and Relationships
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Planning and Organisational Skills
Responsibility for Information Resources
Research & Development
Emotional Resilience
For further information, or to discuss the post, please contact hr@childhood-matters.ie
Job Title:
Clinical Psychologist
Job type:
Part time or full-time
Specialism:
Children in Care, Fostering, Child Protection, Mental Health, Challenging Behaviour, Infant Mental Health, Assessment, Complex Developmental Trauma
Working pattern:
39 hours per week typically from 9am-5pm on Monday to Friday.
Closing date is:
12pm Tuesday 8th August 2023
Salary:
Aligned to HSE consolidated pay scale, dependent on experience.
Reporting to:
CHIPPS Clinical Lead
Location:
Cork City & County
Childhood Matters are recruiting a Clinical/Educational/Counselling Psychologist (staff grade) to work across our child in care clinical services and strengthen our multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will be a member of Childhood Matters, providing high quality, trauma informed child and family assessment and support services while working on a multidisciplinary team. They will be naturally curious about, and able to work within a therapeutic framework, and be highly self-reflective and able to model this with the foster carers/children/parents/staff they are working with.
Childhood Matters has a combination of site-based and home-based services. Interventions are attachment-focussed and incorporate dyadic and systemic ways of working with the child, carers and team around them, drawing on models such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP); Theraplay; Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) approaches, Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI), Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW), among others. Our Multidisciplinary Team is currently comprised of clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a play therapist, child art psychotherapist and specialist occupational therapist and social care staff.
Successful candidates will take a key role in contributing to MDT discussions of each referred child’s needs as well as those of the system around them, formulating the presenting difficulties and considering appropriate intervention. Clinicians joining the team will provide both direct and indirect therapeutic input. They will liaise with partner agencies to endeavour to achieve positive outcomes for children in care and their carers, working to build/restore placement stability and enhance key relationships in the child’s family/support network.
The role will include offering specialist training and consultation to colleagues and the wider team/system around the child, such as social workers, teachers, foster carers, and residential and support workers supporting children in care. We are committed to embedding an evidence-based culture of trauma-informed care and therapeutic practice and therefore keen to continually assess the effectiveness of our service. All clinicians are asked to complete routine outcome measures and carefully consider the effect(s) of their interventions in collaboration with the MDT.
Childhood Matters is a trauma-informed and equal-opportunity employer. We offer competitive salary packages as well as benefits including enhanced maternity leave; pension contribution scheme; health care plans; flexible working hours; internal and externally provided training opportunities, and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidates will be expected to:
Role Requirements
Factor
Requirements
Communication and Relationships
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Planning and Organisational Skills
Responsibility for Information Resources
Research & Development
Emotional Resilience
Reporting is directly to the Senior Psychologist/Clinical Lead.
This job description indicates the main functions and responsibilities of the post and is subject to review and amendment in the light of service developments and changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined from time to time by Childhood Matters in discussion with the post holder.
For further information, or to discuss the post, please contact hr@childhood-matters.ie
Job Title:
Therapeutic Social Worker
Job type:
Full-time Onsite
Specialism:
Children in Care, Fostering, Child Protection, Mental Health, Challenging Behaviour
Working pattern:
39 hours per week typically from 9am-5pm on Monday to Friday.
Closing date is:
12pm Monday 12th June 2023
Salary:
Negotiable depending on experience.
Reporting to:
Service Coordinator
Location:
Cork City & County
Childhood Matters are recruiting a Therapeutic Social Worker to work across clinical services and strengthen our multidisciplinary team. This post is suitable to an experienced social worker, Guardian Ad Litem, or relevant qualified professional with similar experience and goodness-of-fit to service.
The successful candidate will be a member of Childhood Matters, providing high quality, trauma informed child and family assessment and support services while working on a multidisciplinary team. They will be naturally curious about, and able to work within a therapeutic framework, and be highly self-reflective and able to model this with the foster carers/children/parents/staff they are working with. Childhood Matters has a combination of site-based and home-based services and the may involve travel and unsociable hours. Interventions are attachment-focussed and incorporate dyadic and systemic ways of working with the child, carers and team around them, drawing on models such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP); Theraplay; Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) approaches, Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI), Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW), among others. Our Multidisciplinary Team is currently comprised of clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a play therapist, child art psychotherapist and specialist occupational therapist and social care staff.
Successful candidates will take a key role in contributing to MDT discussions of each referred child’s needs as well as those of the system around them, formulating the presenting difficulties and considering appropriate intervention. Clinicians joining the team will provide both direct and indirect therapeutic input. They will liaise with partner agencies to endeavour to achieve positive outcomes for children in care and their carers, working to build/restore placement stability and enhance key relationships in the child’s family/support network.
The role will include offering specialist training and consultation to colleagues and the wider team/system around the child, such as social workers, teachers, foster carers, and residential and support workers supporting children in care. We are committed to embedding an evidence-based culture of trauma-informed care and therapeutic practice and therefore keen to continually assess the effectiveness of our service. All clinicians are asked to complete routine outcome measures and carefully consider the effect(s) of their interventions in collaboration with the MDT.
Childhood Matters is a trauma-informed and equal-opportunity employer. We offer competitive salary packages as well as benefits including enhanced maternity leave; pension contribution scheme; health care plans; flexible working hours; internal and externally provided training opportunities, and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidates will be expected to:
Role Requirements
Factor
Requirements
Communication and Relationships
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Planning and Organisational Skills
Responsibility for Information Resources
Research & Development
Emotional Resilience
The successful candidate will work in close cooperation with the various teams in Childhood Matters. Reporting is directly to the Senior Psychologist/Clinical Lead while maintaining a professional relationship with the Service Managers and CEO.
This job description indicates the main functions and responsibilities of the post and is subject to review and amendment in the light of service developments and changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined from time to time by Bessborough Centre Management in discussion with the post holder.
Employees of Childhood Matters have been supported through the organisation to gain undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level qualifications in psychology, social care, child protection, infant mental health and early years from:
We are also open to third level placement students in areas of psychology, social care and social work.