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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician with experience of working with Children Looked After (CLA) to join an experienced CAMHS team that is co-located with Children's Social Care. This specialist role will be across two services areas:
* delivering our core clinical model in CLA and Fostering
* supporting reunification of children and young people with their birth families.
The core clinical role has a consultative focus, including offering group and individual consultation to Social Workers. The role will have a small clinical caseload of direct work with CLA, carers and birth parents.
This role has an exciting additional focus on reunification. It will involve both direct and indirect clinical intervention with young people, birth parents and the wider network to support successful reunification.
Our work is framed within a stepped model of care; and is guided by Islington CLA's Practice Models (DDP, Mentalisation, Motivational Practice, Return Home).
Main duties of the job
* To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation to social workers in the Children Looked After Service to support their practice and management of young people presenting with a range of presentations and needs.
* To attend group supervision, sharing clinical and mental health knowledge and expertise to contribute to case discussion.
* To facilitate consultations with social workers and supervising social workers, to enhance their trauma-informed, relationship based-practice with children and caregivers.
* To provide specialist mental health assessment, formulation and interventions with children, young people and care-givers.
* To provide specialist evidence-based intervention for looked after children and carers, drawing on innovative ways of engagement and intervention.
* To provide specialist evidence-based interventions for birth parents which will aid reunification, including processing of their experiences of having a child removed and relational work to rebuild the parent-child relationship.
* To formulate and devise clinical management plans for a range of specialist psychological interventions; individual, family and group.
* To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, as required.
* To liaise with professionals in health, mental health, education, social care and voluntary sector services, as required.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate Qualification in: Clinical Psychology, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
* Registration with relevant professional body: UKCP, HCP, BAP, ACP
* Experience of working with looked after children
* Experience of offering consultation and reflective practice to professionals outside of mental health
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Ability and skills to offer consultation to professionals individually and in group
* Ability to work with complex professional networks
* Ability to manage within a busy and challenging context, drawing on trauma informed practice for self-care and to support social care colleagues
* Skills and experience in psychological assessment, formulation and interventions with looked after children
* Skills and experience in assessment and management of mental health risk
* Skills and experience in adhering to clinical governance requirements to a high standard (outcome measuring, record keeping, effective communication)
* Skills and experience in developing and delivering training
* Skills and experience working in social care or other multiagency setting
General
1. To demonstrate anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of the role
2. To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder's line manager.
3. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
4. To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with Manager Community CAMHS.
5. To be cognisant and respectful of Whittington's ICARE values and Islington Vision and Priorities
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