Vacancies

Recruitment

The Zone is a dynamic charity, whose Mission Statement is: ‘To empower young people to live safe, healthy and positive lives’. This is achieved by providing a wide range of services.

The Zone, in partnership with Plymouth City Council and the Department of Health, has been awarded funding to take part in a pilot scheme for 4 years, (of which, we are now into our third year), to develop a highly innovative Multi Systemic Therapy service for young people in Plymouth. MST works with young people aged 16-17 and their families to reduce out of area placements and offers intensive one to one support.

We are looking to recruit/second a highly motivated individual as:

MST Team Leader

Salary: £54,454 - £67,134 pa (Subject to Qualification & Experience)

A Leader with Managerial and Clinical responsibility to lead the MST team maintaining integrity with the model. You must have a Masters Degree in either Family Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Work or a qualification in a related field. If you are a Senior Practitioner with a track record of delivering and developing services through a specialised team and are keen to work on an innovative project, we want to hear from you. This post is equivalent to a Band 8 post under Agenda for Change.

An application pack can be downloaded using the links below:

Job Description [WORD] [PDF]

Person Specification [WORD] [PDF]

Application Form [WORD] [PDF]

Closing date: Friday 2nd July 2010, 12 noon

Interviews will be held week commencing 12th July 2010

CV’s NOT accepted.

Please email completed application forms to recruitment@thezoneplymouth.co.uk or send by post to: HR Officer, The Zone, 14-16 Union Street, Derry's Cross, Plymouth PL1 2SR.

Alternatively, please contact Georgina Hodkinson, HR Officer for an application pack:

Tel: 01752 202420

Email: georgina.hodkinson@thezoneplymouth.co.uk

Fax: 01752 206629

Working for The Zone

Applicants should note the following:

• The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) requires us to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ for disabled applicants who meet the criteria for the above position, to complete the recruitment and selection process. Should any adjustments be necessary, please specify these in section 4 of the enclosed application form.
  
• Under the Asylum and Immigration Act (l996) it is a requirement that prior to any conditional offer of employment being made, all applicants must provide official documentary evidence of their legitimacy for working in the UK.
  
• This post is not protected by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and you are required to divulge Police cautions or convictions in a Court of Law – please refer to Personal Details section of Equality of Opportunity Form. The successful candidate will be subject to a standard or enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check dependent upon the post to which they are appointed.

If you have any queries regarding the recruitment process please contact Human Resources.