Job summary
Employer heading
Psychological Therapist
Band 7
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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Job overview
Hello, my name is James and I am the Team Manager of the Child, Family and Young People Service for Looked After and Adopted Children (CYFP LAAC).
We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 7 Psychological Therapist within our LAAC Mental Health Team in Norfolk and Waveney. This is a fixed term contract/secondment for 12 months to cover a maternity leave. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are in care, adopted or under SGO, and their carers and families.
What we do:
The LAAC team is a specialist service offering timely trauma informed mental health assessment and longer-term evidence-based therapy for children in care and adopted children where there are specific concerns around mental health.
We are in the process of developing our pathways model for the LAAC team. This pathway will sit closely alongside our CORE teams. The overarching therapeutic approach is based on a trauma informed dyadic or systemic clinical model. Some of the individual therapies used by the team include DDP, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Trauma and Attachment focussed Therapy, VIG, Trauma focused therapies including EMDR and TF-CBT, Play Therapy, Systemic Approaches and Mentalization Based Therapies. There will be opportunities for applicants to train in DDP.
Main duties of the job
To be part of an established team, and to support the delivery of exceptional trauma informed therapeutic support to children in care or adopted between the ages of 0-18 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the context of their early childhood experiences.
- Undertaking comprehensive assessments of complex young people and their systems, developing meaningful formulations, and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
- Providing evidence-based interventions and treatment for children in care with a wide range of mental health presentations.
- To manage a clinical caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
- To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment of complex cases within the team and to support the professional systems around the child or young person to address and positively manage risk.
- To confidently use psychometrics or other testing to assess and formulate cases.
- To contribute to the development of a response and effective therapeutic service within the team.
- To contribute to service development and projects within the team.
- An opportunity to supervise trainees on placement within the team.
- To travel independently across Norfolk, each Clinician is allocated a specific locality to travel to (either, East, West or Central).
Working for our organisation
Working patterns:
We understand our colleagues have other commitments outside of work so we are open to discussing full and part-time working hours, and welcome conversations around flexible working options too.
As an organisation we are absolutely committed to strengthening and creating real opportunities for learning, improving, and working creatively. We provide clinical supervision, specialist training and opportunities for professional development. We aim to nurture staff development and are passionate about improving standards and user experience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We aim to:
Support Children in Care and their trusted networks to feel supported and empowered to maintain their emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Offer specialist advice and guidance on the needs of children in care or who are adopted to Norfolk and Suffolk County Council professionals.
Support whole system relationships through strengthening the skills and understanding of foster carers, adoptive parents and frontline professionals caring for and supporting Children in Care.
Support placements where there may be instability, including supporting and enhancing attachment relationships between Children in Care and their carers.
For further details regarding the role, please see attached job description and person specification plus the supplementary information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health or Social Care professional qualification RMN, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology, Diploma in Social Work or equivalent 2
- Postgraduate diploma in CBT or CAT or family therapy or equivalent
- Registration with a professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with clients with mental health problems
- Training and ability to deliver other therapeutic approaches e.g. DBT, EMDR, IPT
Desirable criteria
- Service development
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Moss
- Job title
- Community Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 721616
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