Job summary
The Fostering Developments Team was set up in 2019 to provide containment and digestion to new Foster Carers and Social Workers in GCC. It includes consultation, a training package, and clinical group supervision to staff in the GCC Fostering Resource. These new posts are an opportunity to expand this provision to provide organisational consultancy support to the new residential homes in Gloucestershire, in order to add a therapeutic aspect to the care of the children and young people.
Main duties of the job
Post holder will work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the children and staff.
Provide highly specialist clinical leadership regarding ongoing service improvement initiatives (including implementing learning from continuous improvement cycles) which are in line with the current Service Plan or other service priorities. This may include identifying and leading clinical case reviews, routine audit, evaluating outcome measures and other research methodology.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity, and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys, and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organizations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritize and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Date posted
21 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
327-25-093-A
Job locations
Rikenel/ Children's Homes
Montpelier
Gloucester
GL1 1LY
Job description Job responsibilities
Provide an element of clinical leadership for Children in Care Service.
Provide highly specialist monthly clinical supervision to the child's support network, this will include social workers, residential support workers, and Team and Deputy team managers.
Provide Consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff, whilst maintaining close links with the Fostering Teams within Social Care.
Deliver the Emotional World of the Child training, a training package written by Child Psychotherapists, to all newly approved Foster Carers, and residential home support staff. The course is a four-module, 8-hour training package that covers: child development research and the impact of trauma and ACEs, the impact of entry into care from the child's perspective, emotional safety & containment and rupture & repair, and how carers can support children to heal from trauma.
Contribute to clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust Policy and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a focus on multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation, and risk management using a trauma-informed approach to provide a holistic picture of the child's needs.
Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making, assessment, clinical formulation, and the management of clinical needs, including clinical risk.
Ensure regular attendance at service-wide and other CPD/core competency training.
Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training, and advice to professionals working within a range of children's services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis. Provision will be in accordance with the application of a range of profession-specific models of clinical practice.
Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high-quality clinical services.
Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities. This includes communicating highly complex clinical information within multi-agency settings and involves making difficult ethical and clinical judgments.
Ensure sound knowledge and adherence to the CYPS Operational Policy.
Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e., ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities.
Change work base as requested by the CYPS Service Director.
Teaching to a range of CYPS qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis (including placements for students/profession-specific trainees) to facilitate the development and consolidation of core skills and competencies within the workforce.
Be accessible to deliver specialist consultation and supervision to CAMHS staff regarding cases where there are either urgent high-risk needs or other complex, vulnerability, or poor engagement needs. This will include providing high quality and specialist profession-based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills, and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions.
Ensure high quality, accurate, and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
* Professional Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Qualification
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/organisation: ACP
Desirable
* Profession-specific additional qualifications
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
* Specialist clinical skills, competency, and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience
* Demonstrate extensive, post qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession-based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address:
Rikenel/ Children's Homes
Montpelier
Gloucester
GL1 1LY
Employer's website
https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/
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