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Location
Reading, Berkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Midhurst Children’s Therapeutic Services are now recruiting for an Adolescent Psychologist or Psychotherapist!
Adolescent Psychologist or Psychotherapist
Location : Aldermaston, Reading
Salary : £45K – £55K, DOE
Working Pattern: You will be expected to work in the residential setting approximately 3 days a week and to work 2 days from home.
Benefits : 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays, pension scheme, enhanced DBS check and update service, ongoing clinical and professional support and supervision, extensive training and continued professional development opportunities, peer buddy allocated at induction, monthly reflective practice space for all clinicians and fully-funded team development events.
Are you a highly qualified and experienced Psychologist or Psychotherapist who specialises in adolescent mental health?
Do you want to work in a truly attachment and trauma informed setting?
Our Therapeutic Care team is expanding and we are looking for someone who can take a lead in delivering specialist therapeutic support within independent residential teams in Aldermaston, Reading.
This is a highly autonomous and empathic leadership role to oversee reflective practice, leadership supervision, risk management meetings, psychometric assessment, staff training in trauma-informed practice, and formulation and planning meetings, as well as therapy with a small caseload of young people.
You may also provide supervision to an Assistant Psychological Practitioner who will support on the delivery of both the therapeutic interventions and the systemic team structures that you will lead.
Your primary task will be to embrace and implement our model of Attachment and Trauma Informed Care (ATIC) within an independent residential setting, for a small caseload of adolescents (13-25 years old) with complex mental health difficulties.
As our Adolescent Clinical Practitioner, you will assume responsibility for:
In order to be successful in this role it is essential that you can demonstrate:
It would be great if you had:
There is much scope for evolving and expanding the clinical role within the team and we are proud to have a dynamic and creative approach to implementing meaningful change within the services we support.
This role would be to specifically support one of our partner providers, Essential Therapeutic Care.
Essential currently have three small, family style homes for adolescents with complex mental health needs, and/or attachment and trauma difficulties, many of the young people also have diagnoses of neurodevelopmental differences such as autism or ADHD.
Essential are planning on opening a fourth home in the coming year with each home having the capacity to support 2 or 3 young people, meaning there will be a maximum caseload of 10 young people across the 4 homes.
The primary purpose of Essential homes is to provide support to young people (aged 13-25) who need to ‘step down’ from inpatient mental health, or to prevent them from being admitted in the first place.
‘I was initially nervous about leaving the NHS, but I’ve found that within MCTS, you have much more scope to make meaningful changes than I had when I was in CAMHS. Now, I feel well-resourced, empowered to work autonomously, and able to be creative when implementing interventions at an individual and service level. It’s been a really refreshing change.’ Clinical Psychologist in MCTS
Do not delay your application – the listing will be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
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