Tara Centre

Employer Location: Tyrone
Phone Number: 02882250024
Email: info@taraomagh.com
Web: www.taraomagh.com

Job description

The Tara Centre is inviting tender applications from ethical, competent, experienced and appropriately qualified complementary therapists to deliver complementary therapies on a sessional basis. To fulfil the role, practitioners must be suitably qualified for the service they provide and commit to working at all times within the knowledge, understanding, skills and competence integral to the delivery of the service they offer to the highest professional standard. Successful applicants will provide the service as self-employed, independent contractors.

Responsibilities

• The delivery of complementary therapy treatments on a one-to-one basis from two or more of professionally recognised complementary therapies, for example: Bi Aura, Aromatherapy, EFT, Full body massage, HECT, Indian Head Massage, Reflexology
• Complete all relevant paperwork, fully and accurately, and returning same to the Co-ordinator of Therapeutic Services (COTS) as required and within a specified time frame.
• Working closely with identified Tara Centre staff to ensure that all appropriate procedures and processes are followed.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Diploma Level Professional Qualifications in two or more of professionally recognised complementary therapies (e.g. Bi Aura, Aromatherapy, EFT, Full body massage, HECT, Indian head Massage, Kinesiology, Reflexology, Thought Field Therapy)
• Membership of a recognised professional Complementary Therapy Accrediting Organisation, e.g., Federation of Holistic Therapists, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, General Regulatory Council for Complementary Therapists.
• Valid and Current Certificate of Professional Indemnity Insurance to cover the services provided.
• Availability to provide the said service at the Tara Centre premises at times which will accommodate client needs.
• Successful applicants, when offered a place on the approved sub-contractor list, will be required to provide an Enhanced Access NI Disclosure Certificate before commencing work at the Centre.

Further Information

Salary is up to £35 per session. Tara Centre, a Registered Charity governed as a Company Limited by Guarantee, was founded in June 1996 in the service of healing, peace and holistic wellbeing. The founding vision was inspired by a holistic philosophy of life which cherishes a sense of the sacred in all aspects of life and seeks to build a society where diversity can be experienced as enrichment and pain can be engaged with as the raw material of deep personal transformation. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach to promoting holistic health and deliver a wide range of healing and life enhancing services including counselling/psychotherapy, art therapy, meditation and mindfulness practice, educational and life enhancing programmes, yoga, use of premises by local support groups and complementary therapies. Over the years we have developed a sound tradition of providing, in the warmth, privacy and sanctuary of our own premises here in Omagh, a range of complementary therapies to the highest professional standards. The funding for our Complementary Therapies service is provided by the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS). It is for two years commencing on 1 June 2026 and ending on 31 March 2028. If the applicant satisfies the selection criteria, the Evaluation Panel will invite the applicant to a provider meeting on Thursday, 28th or Friday, 29th May 2026.