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Location

Maidstone, Kent | United Kingdom

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Job description

A unique opportunity to join our Locality CHYPMHS Team for a Senior Therapist. We are looking for experienced CYPMHS therapists to join our Multi-disciplinary Team in Maidstone. We are looking for someone who can confidently deliver assessments and interventions in their area of practice, and work alongside colleagues offering support and consultation about young people open to the service.

This role is for an experienced Systemic Family Therapist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. We are keen that whichever candidate is successful, that we honour their primary profession and ensure ongoing profession specific CPD, supervision and training.

Maidstone CYPMHS has undergone a significant transformation in recent months and is on a journey towards becoming QNCC certified and further showcasing the expertise, skill and compassion that the team have towards supporting Children and Young People with their mental health challenges.

Maidstone has a variety of living conditions, ranging from areas with high Jarman indicators to low density housing. We are transforming our CYPMHS service in line with CYP IAPT and a commitment to these values is essential. In line with increasing access to mental health services the Trust CYPMHS teams work to a short term model of reviewing at 6 and 12 sessions, with some cases needing longer-term work.

The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified Systemic Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. ACP, BACP)

The post-holder will provide clinical interventions and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in CAMHS.

They will be responsible for assessment, treatment, systematic outcome measurement and the extensive support throughout the Maidstone CYPMHS team.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the Maidstone CYPMHS team.

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence based treatments by all clinical staff across the Maidstone CYPMHS team.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include specialist assessment and treatment, parent/foster carer support, family work, group work, school observations of children, short term Maidstone CYPMHS input. They will be responsible for all specialist assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CYPMHS.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

NELFT is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Kent and Medway, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area. The Trust also runs a regional inpatient unit for children, a mother and baby unit and a perinatal service. Specialist NELFT CAMHS multi-disciplinary service provides for children, adolescents and their families from a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds, whose complex problems cause moderate to high levels of concern to themselves, their parents/carers, professionals and the wider community.

You will need to be registered with a Professional Body and preferably be working at an Accredited status.

Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
2. To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
3. To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
4. To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on CYPMHS cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within CYPMHS, including junior medical staff.
5. To contribute to audit and research
6. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT
7. To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures

Leadership
1. The post-holder will provide clinical leadership within the sphere of their professional expertise
2. To actively promote integrated health/care professional working internally and externally
3. To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking
responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict
4. To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines
5. To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda
6. To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice
development, through literature and peer reviews
7. They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it and who use it across CYPMHS
Clinical Skills
1. To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, AFT).
2. To use an expert clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, children, adolescents and their families in order to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan
3. To work alongside other colleagues in CYPMHS and in the care pathway in order to
provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the child’s, young person’s, and
family’s functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched
difficulties in the family. To clinically lead this process in the CYPMHS team
4. To provide highly specialist therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation
5. To provide highly specialist clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems
6. To undertake specialist observations of children in school settings as part of wider
assessments

7. To provide expert therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people) to children and young people with complex mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD; emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety states; attachment disorders; conduct disorders, eating disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychosomatic disorders; enuresis/encopresis, aggression, borderline states, selfharming, substance misuse and other behaviour potentially dangerous to the child/young person or others.
8. To undertake work with parents/carers/networks of referred children and young people
9. To utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other members of CYPMHS

This advert closes on Monday 4 Mar 2024

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