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
The 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
1. Provide an element of clinical leadership for Children in Care Service.
2. 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.
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.
5. Contribute to clinical leadership within the team while undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust Policy.
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.
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.
12. Ensure sound knowledge and adherence to the CYPS Operational Policy.
13. Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures 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 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.
17. 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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Operational Lead for Children in Care Service
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