Highly Specialist Practitioner- Psychotherapist
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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, which 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, 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 to 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 judgements.
Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of 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.
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 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.
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