CURRENT VACANCIES
If you would like further information regarding any of our vacancies, please contact us at recruitment@chums.uk.com
All completed application forms should be sent to this email address.
Clinical Sessional/Bank staff
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 practitioners and therapists keen to look for part-time/flexible hours and exciting development opportunities to join our great cohort of sessional bank staff. We hope to work with sessional staff to identify interests and match skills to ongoing/upcoming projects to provide high quality support.
Currently CHUMS has a range of commissioned, charitable and bespoke delivery that frequently requires us 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/Staff reflective spaces
- Management tasks
- Targeted service development tasks e.g. therapeutic group development
- Face to face or virtual working
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.
Please see the associated job descriptions for further details.
Working hours: Dependent on the needs of the service – to be agreed
Salary: Dependent on the needs of the service – to be agreed
Location: Dependent on the needs of the service – to be agreed
We currently have services in Bedfordshire and Luton, Hertfordshire and Kent.
Interviews will be held as applications are received, so please do not delay in sending your application form to recruitment@chums.uk.com
If you have the skills and ethos CHUMS are looking for, please send your application form to: recruitment@chums.uk.com
CWP intervention Worker (TACTICS Multi-Sport) – required as soon as possible
30 hours per week
Salary: £23,600
The Intervention Worker will play a pivotal role in planning, preparing, and delivering therapeutic multi-sport and recreational programs tailored to support children and young people (ages 8-18) experiencing newly emerging emotional wellbeing difficulties. This early intervention and prevention role promotes healthier and more balanced behaviour, confidence and self-esteem to help support young people before difficulties are too entrenched and give them the opportunity to feel and behave differently before barriers come up in their lives. We are looking for candidates who can support the clinical development of the service to continue to foster engagement and resilience among young people who may be vulnerable or at risk of anti-social behavior in the future. The candidate will also have space to deliver 1:1 evidence-based interventions and take the lead on service user participation within CHUMS. Consequently, the role involves close collaboration with other staff, service users, volunteers, and local venue providers to ensure the effective delivery.
There may also be an opportunity for the position to become a full-time post in the near future.
If you have the skills and ethos CHUMS are looking for, please send your application form to: recruitment@chums.uk.com
Bereavement Practitioner Placement – Kent
This is an exciting opportunity to join the CHUMS specialist bereavement team in our new geographical area in Kent and Medway. We have an exciting opportunity to host 10 placements for a year. The post holder will be responsible for supporting children, young people and their families who have been bereaved across Kent and Medway by offering 1:1 sessions virtually or face to face and helping to facilitate our bereavement workshop programme.
If you are a Trainee counsellor, social worker, counselling psychologist, mental health nurse therapist or other professional modality please email for an informal discussion or complete application form below.
Honorary Assistant Psychologist
To provide support to CHUMS services, by producing outcome measure reports and to assist with clinical group work.