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Job summary
Our new childrens home in Colchester will be responsible for providing stable, short-term and supportive placements for children who are unable to live with their birth families at the current time.
As a key member of our residential staff team, the Clinical Lead will support both staff and children living in our homes, lead the development of a trauma-informed, therapeutic approach to care, evaluate the effectiveness of their input and the improved outcomes for children, and provide specialist advice and training to professionals and families/carers.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will work closely with a dynamic team of social workers, clinical leads, mental health coordinators and local mental health service providers to enhance the emotional and psychological well-being of children and young people who have experienced trauma. Your role will involve fostering nurturing collaborative relationships, and you will actively contribute to the strategic and operational development of our trauma-informed, therapeutic approach to care.
As a specialist in your field, you will provide invaluable advice and training to both professionals and families/carers, helping develop effective strategies to maintain children in their placements, resolve issues and achieve positive outcomes. Your responsibilities will also include conducting highly specialised assessments of therapeutic and placement needs when necessary. Working with a high degree of autonomy while adhering to professional guidelines and our organisational framework, you will collaborate across services to ensure the best possible outcomes for our children, young people, carers and Social Care colleagues.
Furthermore, you will play a pivotal role in continually improving our services, implementing changes and evaluating service quality. You will leverage digital technologies and innovation to enhance our function, all while celebrating and championing Equality and Diversity in every decision you make.
About us
Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. Englands oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest Basildon and Harlow are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Actively contribute to the strategic and operationaldevelopment of the trauma-informed, therapeutic approach to care as part of ateam of clinical leads and mental health coordinators across Fostering,Adoption, Children in Care, Leaving and Aftercare, Special Guardianship andD-Bit teams.
Work alongside a network of professionals and services todevelop nurturing collaborative relationships with children and young peoplewho have suffered trauma, enhancing their emotional and psychologicalwellbeing.
Develop effective relationships with other teams andexternal organisations to enable the delivery of integrated systems to supportchildren in their longer-term care planning, aiming for re-unification wherepossible.
Provide training and clinical consultation to theresidential staff team involved with children looked after on both anindividual and group basis as part of providing a resilient, containing servicewhich promotes trauma-informed, emotionally holding placements.
Assess therapeutic and support needs, contribute to riskassessments/ manage risk and clinically oversee childrens care plans / lifeplans within professional guidelines, the overall framework of Children andFamilies Services policies and procedures and relevant legislation andstatutory requirements.
Provide individual support to young people throughpsychotherapeutic and other types of interventions.
Evaluate the service to identify developmentalopportunities, implement identified changes and deliver a high quality service.
Work with partners in Health and Education where anescalation of support is required and access to treatment / educational plansneeded to support children.
Contribute to Essex County Councils commitment to AntiRacist Practice Specific individual and shared targets and objectives aredefined annually within the performance management framework.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Clinical or counselling psychologist; Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology Systemic psychotherapist; MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy Psychodynamic psychotherapist; Masters or Doctorate Mental Health Nurse with clinical therapy training; RNMH and therapy training - will require NMC pre-registration programme of study.
Desirable
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups ( PTSD, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, ADHD, Autism spectrum, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome). Interest in strength-based and solution-focussed approaches and a keenness to promote stable and secure placements for children either in residential / foster care or returning to their family networks. Evidence of continuing professional development and registration with the relevant governing body. Previous experience and/or interest in adoption/fostering/trauma/attachment/Social Care, including evidence of clinical assessments and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings. Experience of delivering consultations, training and/or supervision. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside of the local authority and NHS. Evidence of multi-agency/multi-professional working. The ability and drive to be proactive in developing effective working relationships with Social Care and other professional colleagues is essential to the success of this role.