Job Description

CHUMS is an innovative, dynamic and employee owned Social Enterprise. CHUMS left the NHS in 2011 to become an independent Social Enterprise across Luton & Bedfordshire, affording more freedom to offer its services in a way that best suits the needs of children, young people and families.

We've come a long way since then and now we are looking for qualified practitioners and therapists keen to look for part-time/flexible hours and exciting development opportunities to join our great cohort of sessional bank staff for Chums Direct, our new private practice service. We hope to work with sessional staff to identify interests and match skills to ongoing/upcoming projects to provide high quality support.

We will need to have a well established team of experienced staff we can trust and call upon to help us flex to meet the needs of our communities. This might include:

Low or high intensity therapies in a range of modalities Working with children, adults and/or families Triage, consultation or training Clinical supervision Virtual working with a possibility of face to face in the future
Some roles will have the potential to become fixed/longer-term and this would be discussed with candidates at recruitment or as opportunities arise.

We are looking for candidates that are interested in taking on new things (with support); using the range of their skills; have enough experience to adapt to what can be quite a fast paced organisation and most importantly embody the CHUMS values of: (A) Accessibility, (C) Compassion and (E) Effectiveness. We feel that working for a social enterprise and/or charity like CHUMS provides a unique working environment where we all care deeply and are often experts by experience as well through training, although this is not mandatory. Consequently we live and breathe person centred care which requires us to be extremely supportive of each other.

For those that are interested we can either receive your application and provide a generic clinical competency interview to keep you on our bank for upcoming opportunities or please feel free to enquire about current opportunities before you apply. If you would like to arrange to speak to one of our HR team, please call Michaela on 01525 863924.

Working hours: Dependent on the needs of the clients- to be agreed

Salary: 28,000 - 35,000 dependent on qualifications and experience

Location: Virtual

We currently have services in Bedfordshire and Luton, Hertfordshire and Kent.

Interviews will be held as applications are received. JD's and application forms are available on our website:

https://chums.uk.com/vacancies/

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 28,000.00-35,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 3 - 25 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Flexitime Health & wellbeing programme Store discount
Education:

Bachelor's (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bedford MK45 4HP

Reference ID: Sessional staff