Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Practitioner to join a newly integrated health service for children in care, at a time when the service is being developed. The service consists of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, which offers specialist physical and emotional health input to professionals, carers and care experienced children and young people (aged 0-18) in Gloucestershire.
We are looking for a Practitioner who is passionate, enthusiastic and committed to delivering excellent and evidence-based practice for our children in care, with experience of working with developmental trauma and complex emotional needs. You will be working alongside a supportive and compassionate team with opportunities for co-working, development and networking with other agencies.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide high quality and specialist profession-based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of therapeutic interventions.
2. Provide a range of specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) in care who present with emotional and mental health difficulties.
3. Provide specialist clinical consultation and advice to carers and professionals working within a range of children's services within Gloucestershire.
4. Provide clinical leadership within the team, undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust Policy.
5. Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and case management through care plans.
Job responsibilities
1. Provide a range of specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) who present with emotional and mental health difficulties.
2. Provide clinical leadership within the team, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust policy.
3. Provide specialist clinical risk assessments and complex risk management plans as part of routine clinical work.
4. Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation.
5. Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff on a routine basis to facilitate the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.
6. Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
7. Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other continuous professional development (CPD) /core competency training.
8. Provide specialist clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team.
9. Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning, consultation, signposting and support to children, young people, and their families.
10. Be accountable for maintaining own professional actions guided by the profession-specific standards and Code of Conduct.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW. For Clinical Psychology: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. For Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy: Completion of training and registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/organisation: NMC, HCPC, BPS, ACP.
* Formal post-graduate learning within a relevant CAMHS field or skill.
* Profession-specific additional qualifications (i.e nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice).
Experience
* Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering evidence-based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.
* Demonstrate extensive experience of providing specialist CAMHS related consultation/training and advice to partner agencies.
* Demonstrate clinical expertise and high levels of competency regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs.
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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