Highly Specialist Practitioner- Psychotherapist
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
Key details
Location: Site Rikenel/ Children's Homes, Montpelier, Gloucester, GL1 1LY
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Grade: Band 8a
Main area: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Job Overview
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.
Responsibilities
1. Work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the children and staff.
2. Provide highly specialist clinical leadership regarding ongoing service improvement initiatives.
3. Identify and lead clinical case reviews, routine audit, evaluating outcome measures and other research methodology.
4. Provide consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff.
5. Deliver the Emotional World of the Child training to all newly approved Foster Carers and residential home support staff.
6. Contribute to clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs.
7. Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making.
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.
9. Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
Qualifications
* Professional Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Qualification
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: ACP
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 evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting.
For more information please see the attached documents.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
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