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.
The post holder will work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the residents and staff.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide an element of clinical leadership for the Children in Care Service.
2. Provide highly specialist monthly clinical supervision to the child’s support network, including social workers, residential support workers, and Team and Deputy team managers.
3. Provide consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff, while maintaining close links with the Fostering Teams within Social Care.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making, assessment, clinical formulation, and the management of clinical needs, including clinical risk.
7. Ensure regular attendance at service-wide and other CPD/core competency training.
8. 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, in accordance with the application of a range of profession-specific models of clinical practice.
9. Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
10. Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus on delivering high-quality clinical services.
11. Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities, including communicating highly complex clinical information within multi-agency settings and making difficult ethical and clinical judgements.
12. Ensure sound knowledge and adherence to the CYPS Operational Policy.
13. Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e., ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities.
14. Change work base as requested by the CYPS Service Director.
15. Teach 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.
16. Be accessible to deliver specialist consultation and supervision to CAMHS staff regarding cases with urgent high-risk needs or other complex, vulnerability, or poor engagement needs, providing high quality and specialist profession-based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills, and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions.
17. Ensure high quality, accurate, and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
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