We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work as part of our specialist Family Intervention and Therapy Service (FITS) within Tameside and Glossop CAMHS, operating in close partnership with Children's Social Care. You will be an integral part of a team delivering trauma-responsive intervention for local families via professional consultation, training, reflective practice, and therapeutic pathways. Working alongside psychological and systemic practitioners, you will facilitate partnership working and multi-level therapeutic intervention for children and families in contact with Children's Social Care.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment, early intervention and prevention with high risk and vulnerable families (e.g. socially excluded families). The post holder will provide direct and indirect intervention for parents/carers, children and their families drawing on professional and therapeutic expertise.
Job responsibilities
Tameside and Glossop CAMHS are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including education, children's social care and the Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector and is striving to fully align to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of psychological practice. Tameside and Glossop CAMHS is also home to the Early Attachment Service which is a nationally recognised, specialist parent-infant mental health and under 5 service.
Targeted investment has enabled the creation of an innovative and forward thinking, relationship-focussed and trauma-responsive approach to the integration of specialist clinical skills within a quality family intervention service. The FITS clinical team comprised of mental health professionals, work in partnership with the Family Intervention Service of Children's Social Care, while also maintaining strong links with core CAMHS. The aim is to ensure timely access to training, consultation, supervision, and intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma-responsive practice and supporting healthy relationships within our Tameside families.
Person Specification
* UKCC nursing or Diploma in social work plus experience to post graduate diploma level
* Accredited membership of an appropriate psychological therapy professional body
* Additional further training in the use of children's attachment assessment tools
* Training in specialist therapeutic work with children, young people and families e.g. DBT, CBT, EMDR, DDP, FT, Theraplay, CAT
Experience
* Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child & adolescent mental health outpatient / community service
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
* Experience of cross-sector working e.g. within CAMHS and Children's Social Care
* Experience of working with families with complex needs
* Experience of working in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts
* Experience of consultation
* Experience of clinically supervising and / or line managing others
Knowledge
* Highly developed knowledge of mental health issues in young people and of issues relevant for CYP supported by social care and their families
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies in relation to children and young people
* Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
* Knowledge and experience of working with young people with developmental trauma
* Evidence of post qualification training courses/ certificates
Skills and abilities
* Ability to perform complex psychological assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health presentations
* Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs and formulation
* Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings
* Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
* Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere
* Ability to act in consultation/ supervision/ training capacity with professionals.
* Ability to develop liaison/links and familiarity with other professional networks
* Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention
* Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness/ outcome
* Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
* Ability to keep accurate activity data for audit/evaluation
* Ability to work strategically to develop the FITS
* Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols
* Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
* Ability to implement HR procedures as appropriate and provide leadership
Work related circumstances
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
* Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
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.
Principal Clinical Psychologist and Lead for FITS
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