Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £57,888 – £64,880 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
· To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment to looked after children, adopted children and those with Special Guardianship Orders, care leavers, and children who are presenting with sexual trauma, including but not limited to individual therapy, parent/child intervention and consultation/risk support to the network around the child.
· To work systemically with children and families, taking into consideration the extensive network that usually exists around looked after children and care leavers whom the service supports.
· To support trainees and colleagues within the service; to provide highly specialist clinical supervision to clinicians within both New Leaf and STARS service.
· To provide clinical leadership and clinical support to trainees and colleagues
· To provide training as required, both internally and to partner agencies, when required
· To lead therapeutic groups for parents and children, as required
· To work autonomously within the Trust guidelines
· To take a lead in the service-wide projects and contribute to innovation and new ways of service delivery, in line with NICE Guidelines and messages from research.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role combine providing clinical intervention to children and families, undertaking clinical supervision within the service as well as offering training and leading on delivery of group work. There is an expectation that the post-holder will be able support the service with relevant clinical developments informed by research and evidence based practice. For full details of the main duties of the job please see attached Job Description.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main responsibilities of the role are all detailed in the attached Job Description, comprising of Clinical Duties, Teaching, Training and Supervision, Research and Service Evaluation and General duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in the following areas: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Arts Psychotherapy (Art or Drama), Clinical/Counselling Psychology, Systemic Psychotherapy, Music Therapy, Play Therapy, Mental Health Nursing, Social Worker
- Good honours degree or equivalent.
- Professional registration such as HCPC, ACP, UKCP, Social Work England, NMC
Desirable criteria
- Additional trainings in adjunctive therapeutic models, especially in relation to attachment, early developmental trauma and sexual trauma.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant professional experience with children, adolescents and their families where children are experiencing difficulties with their mental health, at times complex and enduring, where there are relational difficulties and neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Experience of working with multiple agencies and working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of working with two or more evidence-based, mainstream mental health therapeutic models and a good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice and models of working with Attachment and Trauma
- Experience of working with children in care, those who have been in care and are now adopted or subject to SGO, care leavers and children who have suffered early childhood trauma
- Experience of working with children who have suffered sexual trauma
- Experience of clinical practice within NHS mental health services.
- Experience of specialist supervision and providing consultation
- Experience of working with a systemic approach to clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading on service initiatives and project development
- Experience of completing routine outcome measures
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
