Adoption Assessment Practitioner
6 months ago
**The Oakdale Group**
Oakdale provides a number of services including Interventions for families where there is an adopted, fostered or SGO child, Neuro-Developmental Assessments, Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS) for children who have experienced developmental trauma, Psychotherapy in Schools, Independent Psychology and Psychotherapy Services, Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) Services and Specialist Psychological Therapy and Trauma Services for NHS staff. Most of our services are commissioned by the NHS or Local Authorities.
Oakdale has Clinical Centres in Horsforth and Farsley in Leeds, in Harrogate, and in Halifax and also delivers services from consulting rooms in York, Selby, and Skipton. Most of Oakdale’s services are currently delivered in the North of England, although some are now provided nationwide using online platforms.
Oakdale’s outstanding multidisciplinary clinical team consistently receives excellent feedback from clients and commissioners. Oakdale values its clinical and administrative teams and strives to ensure that both our clients and our colleagues are at the heart of all that we do. Oakdale’s approach is collaborative, reflective, and transparent. We seek to work in partnership with clients and commissioners to achieve excellent clinical results and have in place a commitment to measuring outcomes, seeking feedback from all stakeholders, providing good value services, and having in place processes for continuous improvement.
**Oakdale’s Adoption Support Service**
Most of our work is commissioned by Local Authorities through funding from the Adoption Support Fund (ASF)
The service has grown significantly year on year and Oakdale now has approximately thirty-five clinicians in the team, some are employed and others are associates who work on a sessional basis. Oakdale has become a respected provider in this field and is well regarded for the following:
- Delivering a flexible, collaborative service to meet the particular needs of each client or young person and their family
- Providing Specialist Assessments designed according to the needs of the child
- Having a Neuro Developmental Psychology team that contributes towards the assessments and interventions as required, including the innovative provision of a joined up assessment process to include assessments for autism, adhd, developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
- Delivering BUSS interventions on a nationwide basis
- Having a multi-disciplinary team that provides a wide range of ASF approved interventions according to the specific needs of clients and within the ASF budgetary constraints.
- Offering a service delivery model that provides appointments in usual office hours as well as during the evenings and on weekends
- provides interventions face to face and remotely (through telephone and video conference sessions) according to client preference and taking into account what is clinically appropriate
- Close and supportive collaborative working with our Local Authority partners and other stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes for clients.
**The Role**:
- To contribute to Adoption Support Fund Specialist Assessments and Neurodevelopment Assessments
- To work with parents, children young people in order to ascertain the effects of trauma and attachment relationships on their daily lives
- To work with a team of Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and other skilled therapists for the best needs of the family
- To write indepth clinical reports with clear formulations and recommendations for the families
- To keep up-to-date clinical records
- Complete all required outcomes testing programs including baseline measures, and upload to the database in the required timescales as required according to protocol.
- To actively assess any safeguarding risks and report these immediately to the relevant persons.
- To keep up-to-date CPD records and to attend any training days provided by the organisation.
- To report for case management within the required timescales and be fully prepared to discuss the current work.
**About you**
- Hold an accredited professional qualification such as a psychotherapy or family therapy degree, a creative arts Master's degree or similar.
- Be motivated to work as part of a team and individually
- Be able to work to short deadlines
- Experience working with the families of Looked After Children and will have an interest in attachment and trauma.
- Be willing to attend further training to expand your skills.
- Have some experience of undertaking assessments or at least a willingness to be involved in this more succinct way of working.
- Having an interest in the shared presentation of attachment, trauma and neurodivergence will be an advantage.
- To always maintain sensitivity to the emotional needs of clients/carers when imparting complex /distressing information regarding the nature of the client’s difficulties and the impact on individ
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