Children & Young Persons Counsellor

4 weeks ago

Essex, United Kingdom GP Primary Choice Full time

JOB TITLE: Children & Young Persons Counsellor (CYP)

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Joanne Sunderland - Chief Executive Officer

LOCATION: A Clinic within a Primary Care setting in North East Essex (NEE)

**Job Summary**

Join a team that is passionately committed to empowering children, young people, and families to build resilience through the healing of adverse childhood experiences and trauma. Having the determination and drive to make a sustainable difference in the lives of children, young people and families.

Although employed by GP Primary Choice, you will be providing a clinic within a Primary Care setting for 1 of the Primary Care Networks (PCN) within NEE. You will have clinical supervision from the GPs at the practices within the PCN, and support from a supervisor mentor.

As well as providing additional appointments within primary care specifically for CYP counselling, it will also mean that children and young people who are experiencing poor mental health will be able to access services quickly to be assessed and treated. Safeguarding issues will be identified much earlier and the necessary referrals made. The key aim is to improve well-being and support for children and young people and their parents/carers. This will in turn improve attendance at school and improve mental health in children and young people. This will be captured through patient and parent questionnaires.

Providing this service should help to:

- Reduce emergency attendance and admissions in children and young people for self-injury, suicide attempts, and other mental health-related reasons
- Reduce referrals to SET CAHMS
- Reduce waiting times for SET CAHMS referrals

All CYP counsellors will require an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) disclosure.

**Qualification**:

- Diploma level (or equivalent) qualification in counselling, psychotherapy, or counselling psychology which has been accredited by a recognized professional body (BACP, BOS, UKCP or similar)
- Member of BACP or equivalent
- Hold or be working towards BACP accreditation as a counsellor
- Additional training or experience in working with young people

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To work independently as required and provide support to empower children and young people to live healthier lives.
- To support service users to identify early signs of mental health relapse and alert appropriate staff involved in the person’s care.
- To work in isolated situations with children and young people who may be vulnerable or at risk.
- To establish supportive and empowering relationships with the children, younger people, their families, and carers.
- To monitor and report any changes, both positive and negative, within the care of the child or the young person, during clinical meetings, supervision and at other relevant times.
- To ensure that children and young people and their families understand whom to contact within the different agencies that may be involved in their care.
- To take appropriate courses of action in an emergency.
- Responsible for own work and highlighting any concerns regarding workload to management and/or GP partners.
- Carrying out and monitoring treatment programmes as directed/necessary.
- Forming part of an interdependent multi-disciplinary team helping to ensure that their input is integrated into the children and young people’s overall care.
- Promoting the recovery of children and young people and supporting them to build their independence in the community around the transition to adulthood.
- To operate from an inclusive value-based approach, which recognises and respects diversity.
- To liaise and build relationships with the third sector and NHS-based organisations, to gain information on the services they are offering and share this knowledge with the MDT, and signpost the children, younger people, families and carers accordingly.

**Clinical Skills**:

- To deliver outcome-focused assessments under supervision, and evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- To work in partnership and support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in self-management of presenting difficulties
- To work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- Empower children, young people and families, to make informed choices about interventions.
- To ensure the effective escalation of cases via clinical meetings and clinical supervision.
- To provide children, young people, families and carers with information regarding the variety and range of psychological interventions and treatments available including guided self-help and to deliver these interventions both face-to-face or via telephone.
- To attend MDT and other clinical meetings as needed
- To support young people with the process of transition into adult services
- To work collabora

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