About this role
Job summary
The role will involve working in the well-established and highly regarded Mindworks New Leaf Service, working with children and young people who are in care, who are adopted and/or under special guardianship and those young people who are care leavers, ensuring that an appropriate, timely and affective therapeutic service is delivered to these vulnerable groups.
Mindworks Surrey is the children and young people's Emotional Wellbeing, Mental Health and Learning Disability Service in Surrey.
It is delivered by a group made up of NHS, national and local voluntary sector organisations all working together.
We use an approach called THRIVE, where children and young people have a central voice in decisions about their care. Children and young people have more choices about their options, and more opportunities to access a range of services.
The New Leaf Service sits within the 'Getting More Help' and 'Risk Support' parts of the THRIVE model offering specialist intensive intervention to children, young people and their families/carers. The team's work is underpinned by developmental trauma and attachment theories, employing therapeutic approaches based upon evidence based practice and current research and is provided in collaboration with children, young people, parents/carers and the professional network.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled clinician to join our well-regarded and innovative New Leaf Specialist Service, providing assessment and therapy to looked after children, care leavers, adopted children and those with Special Guardianship Order. The candidate will need to have significantpost-qualifying experience in the field of child and adolescent mental health and an ability to demonstrate experience and understanding of the issues facing children in care, young people leaving care and children who are adopted and under Special Guardianship Orders and who have experienced trauma. An ability to demonstrate robust risk assessment and management skills with this vulnerable client group are essential to the post, as well as experience of working with children and young people and their families/carers in a therapeutic context. Further details of the main duties and knowledge and experience required are in the attached Job Description.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide specialist assessments and mental health interventions working in partnership at all times with children, young people and their families and carers.
To provide consultation, training and advice to professionals and external stakeholders working with children and young people in these vulnerable groups.
To outreach proactively to engage care leavers.
To support the team in safe clinical interventions, providing supervision, case management oversight and expertise in risk management.
To be able to overcome a variety of barriers to communication when working with children, young people and families/carers who may be very traumatised, anxious, vulnerable and have difficulty articulating their problems, requiring imaginative and sensitive approaches towards engagement.
To promote early intervention and active engagement amongst the network, being an ambassador for mental well-being and providing expertise in emotional and mental health across the system in order to effect better outcomes for children and young people.
To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload of children and adolescents with emotional well-being issues and more complex emerging mental health issues often involving additional difficulties, such as self-harming, depression, trauma and attachment issues.
To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information.
To use age appropriate and sensitive language when sharing assessment and treatment plans with young people being mindful where the information may be unwelcome.
To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for professional practice.
To consider and assess all safeguarding concerns and to act on these in accordance with national and local safeguarding procedures.
To be committed to non-discriminatory practice, recognise and respect the protected characteristics of children, young people and families/carers. To be aware and mindful of the needs of children and young people from a wide range of racial, religious, cultural, social backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability and SEND.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Professional qualification in the following areas: Mental health nursing, Social Work, Systemic Psychotherapy, Arts Psychotherapy (Art or Drama), Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Music Therapy, Play Therapy, Clinical Psychology, CBT Therapy Professional registration such as HCPC, ACP, UKCP, NMC, Social Work England, BACP, BABCP Accreditation. Post registration training in specialty of child and adolescent mental health such as systemic psychotherapy, play, art or drama therapy, EMDR, DDP, trauma focussed CBT, CATT
Desirable
Post Graduate training/qualification or further training in trauma and attachment and specific to the needs of children and young people who are in care, leaving care, adopted or under special guardianship orders.
Experience Essential
Significant post-qualifying experience in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Ability to demonstrate experience and understanding of the issues facing children in care, young people leaving care and children who are adopted and under special guardianship orders and who have experienced trauma. Experience of working with children and young people and their families/carers in a therapeutic context Experience of working with multiple agencies and working in a multidisciplinary team. Ability to work with children and young people who may have experienced significant trauma, including emotional, physical, sexual abuse and neglect, family breakdown and multiple placement breakdown Some demonstrated theoretical knowledge of the evidence-based practice and models of working with attachment and trauma Ability to demonstrate robust risk assessment and management skills with this vulnerable client group.
Desirable
Ability and experience of working with children and young people who have PTSD, Complex PTSD, self-harm, trauma, attachment difficulties, depression, anxiety and issues surrounding identity and displacement Knowledge of the legal processes and developments involved with children in care or previously in care, and their journey, would be valued.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Mindworks Specialist Services, Ramsay House
Richmond Crescent, West Park
Epsom
KT19 8PH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)