Respond Looking for Young People’s Service Manager at WC1X, London (Hybrid) Full Time

We are looking for a passionate psychotherapist or an arts therapist to lead and manage our Young People’s Service at Respond as we start our next three-year strategy for 2022-25.

Respond is entering its thirty second year as a charity and has grown from a small London based charity to a medium sized national charity in recent years. Our mission is to reduce the impact of trauma in the lives of people with learning disabilities and autistic people, by developing trusting relationships, through psychotherapeutically informed services. 

As a qualified arts therapist, or psychotherapist you will have experience in working with children and young people who have a learning disability autistic people and who have experienced abuse and/or trauma. You will also have experience managing a Service and a team. Supporting the Clinical Director and alongside the other Service Managers, you will contribute to the next phase of the development of psychodynamic and trauma informed approach to working with Children and Young People with learning disabilities and autism. Please click on the link to see the job description and person specification. 

Further information about Respond 

An important part of our work at Respond is working in a trauma informed way. What this means for us is that we hold in mind the impact of trauma at all levels of the organisation, and all staff take part in reflective practice or team dynamics.   

We are keen to encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates who are both interested in leading our Young People’s Service, as well as supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people who have experienced trauma. 

We are committed to the furthering of human rights, equality, and positive social change through our therapeutic and advocacy work and are committed to anti-racism and other forms of anti-discriminatory practice. We recognise that we need to continually keep this as a focus in our work and as an integral part of our organisational strategy.  

We celebrate diversity as an employer and as a provider of services to people who often experience multiple discriminations because of (but not limited to) being autistic or having a learning disability and experiences of trauma.

We offer a hybrid working model, which means that if you’re full time you make a commitment to be working in the office at least two days a week, with the remainder working from home. Part time hours are altered accordingly. 

If you’d like to find out more about this role, please read through the job description and our person specification. When you apply, please make sure that you address the points in the person specification in your supporting statement. Your statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4 submitted as a cover letter.

Deadline for applications – 26th August 2022, however, we will review applications as they are received and contact candidates who are shortlisted for interview accordingly. 

Interviews First stage 8th September 2022 – online

Second stage 13th September 2022 – in person at our London office.