Highly Specialist Practitioner- Psychotherapist
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
The Fostering Developments Team was set up in 2019 to provide containment and digestion to new Foster Carers and Social Workers in GCC. It includes consultation, a training package and clinical group supervision to staff in the GCC Fostering Resource.These new posts are an opportunity to expand this provision to provide organisational consultancy support to the new residential homes in Gloucestershire, in order to add a therapeutic aspect to the care of the children and young people.
Main duties of the job
Post holder will work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the children and staff.
Provide highly specialist clinical leadership regarding ongoing service improvement initiatives (including implementing learning from continuous improvement cycles) which are in line with the current Service Plan or other service priorities.This may include identifying and leading clinical case reviews, routine audit, evaluating outcome measures and other research methodology.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%
To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Provide an element of clinical leadership for Children in Care Service.
- Provide highly specialist monthly clinical supervision to .to the child’s support network, this will include social workers, residential support workers and Team and Deputy team managers.
- Provide Consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff, whilst maintaining close links with the Fostering Teams within Social Care.
- Deliver the ‘Emotional World of the Child’ training, a training package written by Child Psychotherapists, to all newly approved Foster Carers, and residential home support staff. The course is a four module, 8-hour, training package that covers: child development research and the impact of trauma and ACEs. The impact of entry into care from the child’s perspective, emotional safety & containment and rupture & repair, and how carers can support children to heal from trauma.
- Contribute to clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust Policy and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a focus on multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and risk management using a trauma informed approach to provide a holistic picture of the child’s needs
- Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making, assessment, clinical formulation and the management of clinical needs, including clinical risk.
- Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CPD/core competency training.
- Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of children’s services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice.
- Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
- Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.
- Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities. This includes communicating highly complex clinical information within multiagency settings and involves making difficult ethical and clinical judgements.
- Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of the CYPS Operational Policy
- Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities
- Change work base as requested by the CYPS Service Director
- Teaching to a range of CYPS qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis (including placements for students/profession specific trainees) to facilitate the development and consolidation of core skills and competencies within the workforce.
- Be accessible to deliver specialist consultation and supervision to CAMHS staff regarding cases where there are either urgent high risk needs or other complex, vulnerability or poor engagement needs. This will include providing high quality and specialist profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions.
- Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria- Professional Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Qualification
- Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: ACP
- Profession specific additional qualifications
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria- Specialist clinical skills, competency and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience
- Demonstrate extensive, post qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession-based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
- Free car parking at many of our sites
- 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
- A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
- A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
- Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
- Recognition and long service awards
- Fast Track physiotherapy
- Our Wellbeing line
- Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.