Qualified Play Therapist
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Qualified Play Therapist
Location: Southampton
Salary: £15,806 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time (20 hours per week)
Make a real difference to the lives of children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
At the organisation, they believe every child deserves a safe space to heal and thrive. They’re looking for a compassionate, creative and qualified Play Therapist (known internally as Play Therapy Worker) to join their Domestic Abuse Services team. This is a unique opportunity to use your skills to empower children and young people through therapeutic play and person-centred support.
What you’ll do
- Deliver age-appropriate, strengths-based play therapy to children and young people living in their refuge accommodation.
- Use a variety of creative techniques – from storytelling and art to music and role play – to help themselves and build resilience.
- Work with the children, young people and families development workers to create individual support plans and work closely with parents to create safe, nurturing environments.
- Collaborate with multi-agency partners and contribute to safeguarding best practice.
- Play a key role in shaping their children and family support programme.
What they’re looking for
- A recognised Play Therapy qualification and registration with a relevant professional body (e.g., UKCP, BACP, BAPT).
- Experience delivering outcomes-focused therapy to children and young people.
- Strong understanding of child development, attachment theory, and the impact of domestic abuse.
- Ability to work creatively, flexibly, and in a non-judgemental way.
- Excellent communication and partnership skills.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today and help us create safe, supportive spaces where children and young people can flourish.
**This post is restricted to female applicants only under the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1. The role is based within a female-only domestic abuse refuge, where the provision of services requires a female worker to ensure the privacy, dignity, and safety of residents.
Discover the organisation:
They have 20+ years’ experience delivering refuge, safe accommodation and community based domestic abuse services. Their services include Women and Children’s Refuges, LGBTQ+ Safe Space, a South Asian Women’s Refuge and dispersed accommodation to support those that are unable to access traditional Refuges such as male survivors, those with pets and those facing multiple and complex disadvantage. Their dispersed model of safe accommodation ensures equal access for all.
They reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
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Key skills extracted
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⭐ Place your Play Therapy qualification and professional body registration (UKCP, BACP, or BAPT) prominently at the top of your CV under a 'Qualifications & Registrations' section, as the advert lists these as essential requirements.
📊 Quantify your therapeutic caseload: e.g., 'Delivered play therapy to 18 children aged 4–12 over 12 months, with 85% achieving agreed therapeutic outcomes.'
🎯 Explicitly reference your knowledge of domestic abuse and its impact on children in your Personal Statement, as the role sits within a specialist domestic abuse refuge service.
🌐 Highlight multi-agency collaboration experience — name specific partners (e.g., CAMHS, social services, schools) to demonstrate your safeguarding and partnership credentials.
🤝 Include a dedicated bullet on individual support plan creation and parental engagement, as the advert specifically calls out working closely with families and development workers.
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- •Delivered individual and group play therapy to 16 children aged 4–13 within a residential support setting, with 80% achieving measurable progress against agreed therapeutic outcomes over a 6-month period.
- •Developed and maintained individual support plans for 12 children in collaboration with 3 family support workers and external CAMHS practitioners, ensuring consistent, trauma-informed care aligned with safeguarding protocols.
- •Applied attachment theory and creative modalities — including art, music, and role play — across a weekly caseload of 10 sessions, reducing presenting anxiety indicators in 70% of children after 8 weeks of intervention.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
The Qualified Play Therapist role within your Domestic Abuse Services team in Southampton is precisely where I want to apply my skills in strengths-based therapeutic play and person-centred support. Your 20+ years of specialist refuge provision — spanning women's, children's, LGBTQ+ and South Asian services — represents a depth of commitment to survivor safety that I am eager to contribute to.
My background in delivering outcomes-focused play therapy to children and young people has equipped me with a strong grounding in attachment theory, child development, and safeguarding best practice. I hold a recognised Play Therapy qualification and am registered with a relevant professional body, and I have experience creating individual support plans in collaboration with families and multi-agency partners including social services and CAMHS.
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Technical
- ›How do you adapt play therapy techniques for children of different ages and developmental stages within a refuge setting?
- ›Which creative modalities (e.g., storytelling, art, music) do you draw on most in your practice, and how do you select the right approach for a child?
- ›How do you apply attachment theory when working with children who have experienced domestic abuse?
- ›Describe how you construct and review an individual support plan for a child in a refuge environment.
- ›How do you ensure your practice meets safeguarding requirements when working within a multi-agency framework?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you worked with a child who was particularly resistant to therapy — how did you build trust and engagement?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to collaborate with external agencies to safeguard a child. What was your role and what was the outcome?
- ›Give an example of when you adapted your therapeutic approach mid-session because it was not meeting the child's needs.
- ›Tell me about a time you supported a parent or carer alongside delivering therapy to their child — how did you balance both relationships?
- ›Describe a challenging safeguarding decision you faced. How did you reach your conclusion and what did you learn from it?
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Tell me about a time you worked with a child who was particularly resistant to therapy — how did you build trust and engagement?
Describe a situation where you had to collaborate with external agencies to safeguard a child. What was your role and what was the outcome?