Specialist Intervention Services

Hours: 37 hours per week.

**Salary**: £36,863 - £41,978 (SCP 35-40)

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
As SIS Practitioner, you will report to the Specialist Intervention Health and Wellbeing (SIHW) Manager. You will deliver interventions using a range of psychological assessment tools, and formulations. You will provide specialist knowledge, support, and guidance to young people and members of their key team.

The post-holder will assist in designing and delivering 1:1 and group work packages for young people who reside at Rossie in either the secure or residential campus. The primary focus will be to ensure a range of therapeutic interventions tailored to the needs, risks, responsivity issues, and learning styles of the young people are met and risk assessment and management strategies are put in place. You will consult with colleagues, attend meetings and write professional reports to inform others of the work being achieved.

You will have regular supervision from a Clinical Psychologist to ensure your work is ethical, focused on positive experiences and outcomes and continues to meet the needs of the young people.

**Undertake assessments, formulations and create intervention pathways**:

- Work with young people who are placed in secure and residential care who may be in crisis with serious and co-occurring risks including self-harm; suicide, self-neglect, harm to others, substance use, absconding, abuse and exploitation, offending risks and other risks
- Build positive and therapeutic relationships with young people
- Complete the assessments of young people including self-report measures, structured professional judgement, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews under the supervision of the team manager
- Deliver a range of therapeutic interventions (low intensity, high intensity and highly specialist) to young people drawing on behavioural, cognitive, systemic and humanistic models working within sphere of competencies and training
- Assist in the development of multimodal formulations
- Design and deliver therapeutic intervention pathways, using structured and dynamic approaches, under the supervision of the team manager
- Assist in the running of therapeutic groups and 1-1 sessions
- Work with other staff to assess young people and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews
- Attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings. To develop and maintain the high standards of assessment and evidence based interventions to young people
- Undertake and contribute to individual risk assessments

**Communicate effectively with a range of working partners and stakeholders**:

- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere and overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
- Communicate appropriately and effectively with children and families, other team members and professionals and ensure that personal presentation, appearance and attitude is appropriate
- Work collaboratively to ensure young people receive the right support at the right time using approaches to assessment and therapies that are evidence based and professionally acceptable and within modality integrity
- Prepare reports and summaries understandable to young people, professionals and family members
- Assist in ensuring that care planning and interventions take place appropriately for all young people
- Manage a caseload and provide advice and consultation for young people who have a range of complex needs
- Establish and maintain effective systems of communications between all workers in the team and external agencies
- Liaise and maintain relationships with CAMHS
- Build and maintain a trauma-informed therapeutic relationship with young people

**Report writing and attendance at multi-disciplinary meetings**:

- Ensure the development and delivery of intervention work with young people in line with Rossie’s Intervention Pathway
- Contribute effectively to a range of multi-disciplinary meetings to review young people’s progress
- Ensure clear and accurate record keeping is maintained to meet the professional requirements of Rossie is achieved
- Compile assessment outcome reports and comprehensive progress reports

**Development of self and others**:

- Provide advice and guidance to Rossie colleagues and external partners
- Develop clinical effectiveness skills
- Adhere to the appropriate Codes of Professional Conduct as well as Rossie’s Policies and Procedures at all times
- Attend identified training and developmental opportunities
- Contribute to Clinical Supervision
- Maintain confidentiality in line with GDPR
- Contribute to the development of others by sharing knowledge and experience
- Please note this job description is to provide a clear and concise statement of the main tasks and activities of the post, and it is not intended as an exhaustive list of ev