Senior Sense of Belonging Therapist

Role Responsibility

The Placement Stability Team works with colleagues across the Local Authority within Corporate Parenting and Children’s Services to promote placement stability and increase understanding of the therapeutic needs of children placed in foster care. The team provides a child-centred outcome-focused fostering support service to children who are fostered through Kent County Council with the aim of enhancing placement stability.

This is an exciting time to join the team and we are looking for an experienced clinical therapist to enhance the support given to foster carers by providing specialist advice to the professional network where therapeutic input is needed for children in Kent County Council foster care placements.

If you have extensive clinical experience, have the ability to think strategically and analytically and want to be part of a dynamic, forward thinking service, we are keen to hear from you.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Interviews will be held on the 25th June.

Contact Details

If you would like to discuss the position, please contact Tracy Burroughs, Team Manager, who will be delighted to speak with you: (tracey.burroughs@kent.gov.uk).

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.