Highly Specialist Practitioner- Psychotherapist
Band 8a
Main area: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 327-25-093-A
Site: Rikenel/ Children's Homes
Town: Gloucester
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Job overview
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
1. Work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the children and staff.
2. Provide highly specialist clinical leadership regarding ongoing service improvement initiatives.
3. Identify and lead clinical case reviews, routine audit, evaluating outcome measures and other research methodology.
4. Provide highly specialist monthly clinical supervision to the child’s support network, including social workers, residential support workers, and Team and Deputy team managers.
5. Provide Consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff.
6. Deliver the ‘Emotional World of the Child’ training to all newly approved Foster Carers and residential home support staff.
7. Contribute to clinical leadership within the team, undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs.
8. Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making, assessment, clinical formulation and management of clinical needs.
9. Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CPD/core competency training.
10. Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training and advice to professionals.
11. Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions.
12. Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues.
13. Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication.
14. Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of the CYPS Operational Policy.
15. Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities.
16. Change work base as requested by the CYPS Service Director.
17. Teach to a range of CYPS qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis.
18. Be accessible to deliver specialist consultation and supervision to CAMHS staff regarding urgent high risk needs.
19. Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
* Professional Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Qualification
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/organisation: ACP
* Profession specific additional qualifications
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
* 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.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay for unsocial hours.
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities.
* Recognition and long service awards.
* Fast Track physiotherapy.
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
Name: Holly Dowsing
Job title: Operational Lead for Children in Care Service
Email address: holly.dowsing@ghc.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07824 866465
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