&
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Unit DE, Cill Dara Industrial Estate, Newbridge Co. Kildare.
Telephone: **Apply on the website** Facsimile: **Apply on the
website**
Email: **Apply on the website**
Newbridge Youth Training and Development Centre (Newbridge CTC)
provides vocational and life skills training to early school leavers.
Our courses are designed to enhance the learner?s potential to learn
new skills and achieve relevant certification necessary for
progression into employment, further training or continued education.
This role responds to learner needs through the provision of a variety
of flexible training options, which ultimately supports their move
into the workplace or another learning environment.
Newbridge Youth Training and Development Centre are recruiting a
part-time Adolescent Counsellor. As an Adolescent Counsellor, you will
be responsible for helping our learners thrive and reach their goals.
You will work in small group and one to one settings to ensure that
the individuals in our care are emotionally& psychologically strong,
physically safe and socially healthy.
Newbridge CTC Board invites applications from enthusiastic &
self-motivated individuals for the position of:
ADOLESCENT COUNSELLOR ? CAREER BREAK ? **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
MONTH CONTRACT
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
* Conduct counselling sessions in group or individual settings to
help learners cope with problems related to family issues, abusive
histories, drug and alcohol abuse, and other issues.
* Offer additional support to family members by facilitating
therapeutic talking sessions during appropriate times.
* Assist other staff members such as Instructors, key workers in
developing an appropriate plan of success for each individual learner.
* Monitor each learners? progress during their time in Newbridge
YTDC employing evaluations, gathering documentation and assessing
specific goals.
* Demonstrate model behaviour, appropriate communication skills and
positive feedback so resident learners can make progress with positive
behaviour interventions.
* Ensure safety of learners by following all proper regulations,
safety recommendations and procedures each day.
* Record information and document incidents as they occur to help
keep track of problem behaviours or unsafe conditions on campus
* Act as a resource to individual learners when they need guidance
about specific life situations or social issues.
QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES
Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc
(a) Candidates must possess:
(i) A recognised qualification at minimum Level 7 or higher
qualification on the NQAI framework in Counselling, Medicine, relevant
Health & Social Care Professionals (e.g. Psychology, Social Work,
Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy) or registered or
eligible to be registered as a Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery
Board of Ireland (An Bord Altranaisagus Cn?imhseachais na h?ireann).
and
(ii) Be accredited as a counsellor with the Irish Association OF
Counselling & Psychotherapy (IACP) and Irish Association of Humanistic
and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP).
and
(iii) Have two years? experience as a counsellor in a relevant Irish
Council of Psychotherapy setting. and
(b) Candidates must be currently employed in a
counselling/psychotherapy setting in the Irish health sector.
COMPETENCIES
* Knowledge of child and adolescent counselling
* Knowledge of developmental psychology and of family development
and transitions and the ability to match interventions to the
appropriate developmental stage
* Knowledge and understanding of developmental issues and mental
health problems of children and adolescents
* Knowledge of the law related to working with under **Apply on the
website**s
* Ability to operate within professional and ethical guidelines
* Ability to work with issues of confidentiality and consent,
including ability to develop a contract with the guardians
* Ability to work with agencies
* Ability to work in culturally diverse environments
* Ability to engage and work with children and adolescents and their
systemic world
* Ability to communicate with children and adolescents with
consideration of different developmental levels and backgrounds
* Knowledge of psychopharmacology used in work with children and
young people, including side effects
* Knowledge of when and how to refer
* Ability to foster and maintain a good therapeutic alliance and to
grasp the client?s perspective
* Ability to conclude counselling relationships
_GENERIC THERAPEUTIC COMPETENCIES:_
* Knowledge of models of intervention, and their employment in
practice
* Ability to work with the emotional content of the session
* Ability to manage endings and service transitions
* Ability to work with groups of young people and/or parents/ carers
* Ability to make use of supervision specific for this type of work
* Reflective Practice
_ASSESSMENT COMPETENCIES_
* Ability to conduct a collaborative assessment
* Ability to conceptualise and formulate the case
* Ability to identify situations of concern and manage them
appropriately
SKILLS
You'll need to have:
* sensitivity, empathy and a genuine interest in the emotional
problems faced by adolescents and their families
* excellent communications skills
* the ability to cope with the extremes of human emotion, ambiguity
and vulnerability
* the ability to work on your own and as part of a multidisciplinary
team
* resilience, to withstand being overwhelmed or burdened by your
clients' problems
* the capacity to differentiate your personal feelings and emotions
from those of the child or adolescent
* Confidence to help adolescents explore difficult and painful
aspects of their life.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As an adolescent therapist, you'll need to:
* carefully observe young people and respond to what they might be
communicating through their behaviour and play
* provide assessment and treatment of children and adolescents as
individuals or in a group
* Tailor your approach to the individual and work in an
age-appropriate way.
* Provide short-term and long-term interventions with young people
and/or parents, from a few sessions to regular appointments over their
term in Newbridge YTDC
* Work alongside other professionals in planning how best to help
the individual, for example in schools, hospitals, children's services
and child protection agencies
* Offer training, consultation and supervision to colleagues,
* Plan service delivery in conjunction with commissioners and
develop new services
* Keep up to date with developments in theory and research and
undertake continuing professional development (CPD).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In order to retain your membership of the accrediting body (the ACP),
you'll need to undertake continuing professional development (CPD) to
keep up to date with clinical and theoretical advances.
-------------------------
The salary associated with the post is ?**Apply on the website**.
This is based on an incremental scale including Long Service
increments & a maximum starting point applies.
Newbridge CTC offers an excellent package including contributory
pension and opportunities for continuous professional development for
the successful candidate. This post requires Garda Vetting clearance
and receipt of satisfactory references prior to appointment.
Applications which must include a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae
should be marked ?Private & Confidential? and clearly marked which
position is being applied for and returned to:
The General Manager via email to: **Apply on the website**
Closing date for receipt of applications is noon on **Apply on the
website**th September **Apply on the website**
Shortlisting may apply.
_Newbridge CTC is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Canvassing & late applications will disqualify._
YOUTH TRAINING
&
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Unit DE, Cill Dara Industrial Estate, Newbridge Co. Kildare.
Telephone: **Apply on the website** Facsimile: **Apply on the
website**
Email: **Apply on the website**
Newbridge Youth Training and Development Centre (Newbridge CTC)
provides vocational and life skills training to early school leavers.
Our courses are designed to enhance the learner?s potential to learn
new skills and achieve relevant certification necessary for
progression into employment, further training or continued education.
This role responds to learner needs through the provision of a variety
of flexible training options, which ultimately supports their move
into the workplace or another learning environment.
Newbridge Youth Training and Development Centre are recruiting a
part-time Adolescent Counsellor. As an Adolescent Counsellor, you will
be responsible for helping our learners thrive and reach their goals.
You will work in small group and one to one settings to ensure that
the individuals in our care are emotionally& psychologically strong,
physically safe and socially healthy.
Newbridge CTC Board invites applications from enthusiastic &
self-motivated individuals for the position of:
ADOLESCENT COUNSELLOR ? CAREER BREAK ? **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
MONTH CONTRACT
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
* Conduct counselling sessions in group or individual settings to
help learners cope with problems related to family issues, abusive
histories, drug and alcohol abuse, and other issues.
* Offer additional support to family members by facilitating
therapeutic talking sessions during appropriate times.
* Assist other staff members such as Instructors, key workers in
developing an appropriate plan of success for each individual learner.
* Monitor each learners? progress during their time in Newbridge
YTDC employing evaluations, gathering documentation and assessing
specific goals.
* Demonstrate model behaviour, appropriate communication skills and
positive feedback so resident learners can make progress with positive
behaviour interventions.
* Ensure safety of learners by following all proper regulations,
safety recommendations and procedures each day.
* Record information and document incidents as they occur to help
keep track of problem behaviours or unsafe conditions on campus
* Act as a resource to individual learners when they need guidance
about specific life situations or social issues.
QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES
Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc
(a) Candidates must possess:
(i) A recognised qualification at minimum Level 7 or higher
qualification on the NQAI framework in Counselling, Medicine, relevant
Health & Social Care Professionals (e.g. Psychology, Social Work,
Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy) or registered or
eligible to be registered as a Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery
Board of Ireland (An Bord Altranaisagus Cn?imhseachais na h?ireann).
and
(ii) Be accredited as a counsellor with the Irish Association OF
Counselling & Psychotherapy (IACP) and Irish Association of Humanistic
and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP).
and
(iii) Have two years? experience as a counsellor in a relevant Irish
Council of Psychotherapy setting. and
(b) Candidates must be currently employed in a
counselling/psychotherapy setting in the Irish health sector.
COMPETENCIES
* Knowledge of child and adolescent counselling
* Knowledge of developmental psychology and of family development
and transitions and the ability to match interventions to the
appropriate developmental stage
* Knowledge and understanding of developmental issues and mental
health problems of children and adolescents
* Knowledge of the law related to working with under **Apply on the
website**s
* Ability to operate within professional and ethical guidelines
* Ability to work with issues of confidentiality and consent,
including ability to develop a contract with the guardians
* Ability to work with agencies
* Ability to work in culturally diverse environments
* Ability to engage and work with children and adolescents and their
systemic world
* Ability to communicate with children and adolescents with
consideration of different developmental levels and backgrounds
* Knowledge of psychopharmacology used in work with children and
young people, including side effects
* Knowledge of when and how to refer
* Ability to foster and maintain a good therapeutic alliance and to
grasp the client?s perspective
* Ability to conclude counselling relationships
_GENERIC THERAPEUTIC COMPETENCIES:_
* Knowledge of models of intervention, and their employment in
practice
* Ability to work with the emotional content of the session
* Ability to manage endings and service transitions
* Ability to work with groups of young people and/or parents/ carers
* Ability to make use of supervision specific for this type of work
* Reflective Practice
_ASSESSMENT COMPETENCIES_
* Ability to conduct a collaborative assessment
* Ability to conceptualise and formulate the case
* Ability to identify situations of concern and manage them
appropriately
SKILLS
You'll need to have:
* sensitivity, empathy and a genuine interest in the emotional
problems faced by adolescents and their families
* excellent communications skills
* the ability to cope with the extremes of human emotion, ambiguity
and vulnerability
* the ability to work on your own and as part of a multidisciplinary
team
* resilience, to withstand being overwhelmed or burdened by your
clients' problems
* the capacity to differentiate your personal feelings and emotions
from those of the child or adolescent
* Confidence to help adolescents explore difficult and painful
aspects of their life.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As an adolescent therapist, you'll need to:
* carefully observe young people and respond to what they might be
communicating through their behaviour and play
* provide assessment and treatment of children and adolescents as
individuals or in a group
* Tailor your approach to the individual and work in an
age-appropriate way.
* Provide short-term and long-term interventions with young people
and/or parents, from a few sessions to regular appointments over their
term in Newbridge YTDC
* Work alongside other professionals in planning how best to help
the individual, for example in schools, hospitals, children's services
and child protection agencies
* Offer training, consultation and supervision to colleagues,
* Plan service delivery in conjunction with commissioners and
develop new services
* Keep up to date with developments in theory and research and
undertake continuing professional development (CPD).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In order to retain your membership of the accrediting body (the ACP),
you'll need to undertake continuing professional development (CPD) to
keep up to date with clinical and theoretical advances.
-------------------------
The salary associated with the post is ?**Apply on the website**.
This is based on an incremental scale including Long Service
increments & a maximum starting point applies.
Newbridge CTC offers an excellent package including contributory
pension and opportunities for continuous professional development for
the successful candidate. This post requires Garda Vetting clearance
and receipt of satisfactory references prior to appointment.
Applications which must include a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae
should be marked ?Private & Confidential? and clearly marked which
position is being applied for and returned to:
The General Manager via email to: **Apply on the website**
Closing date for receipt of applications is noon on **Apply on the
website**th September **Apply on the website**
Shortlisting may apply.
_Newbridge CTC is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Canvassing & late applications will disqualify._
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