Psychological Therapist

3 weeks ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

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).

About us

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.

Job description

Job 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

Health or Social Care professional qualification RMN, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology, Diploma in Social Work or equivalent2 Postgraduate diploma in CBT or CAT or family therapy or equivalent Registration with a professional body

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with clients with mental health problems Training and ability to deliver other therapeutic approaches DBT, EMDR, IPT

Desirable

Service development

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