Rbg Children Services Highly Specialist Care Leavers Clinician

Job overview

The successful candidate will deliver high quality, evidence based, psychological service to children, young people and their families, carers and professional networks in keeping with iThrive principles.

Our service sits within culturally diverse Greenwich and offers a rich and stimulating environment from where to work. There is very good public transport link with buses and trains.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the autonomous provision of a therapeutic service for service users experiencing a range of mental health problems, working to NICE guidelines for Depression, OCD, PTSD, Anxiety and other mental health problems, using a stepped-care model.

As well as direct work, the role includes providing advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, local authority colleagues and carers. There will be opportunities to develop and deliver groups / workshops to assist personal advisors to manage risk and improve outcomes for young people, and their families, as well as developing and providing relevant training.

This post provides opportunities to supervise to junior clinicians, trainees and other junior staff. The postholder will be required to work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with Thrive Framework principles and within a complex and blended environment, fostering effective team working in an integrated manner, working in partnership with local authority colleagues to achieve the best outcomes for children. There will also be opportunities to utilise research skills for audit, quality improvement, policy and service development within the area served by the team/service.

The post holder will share their time between offering direct work, consultation, training and service development.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of 18-25 year old Care Leavers based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, social workers, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, network or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
• To support the delivery of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and related approaches across Children’s Services, supporting the development of both clinical and non-clinical staff in CFT-informed practice
• To support local authority colleagues, non-clinical staff with the Children’s Service Practice Framework, including Compassion-Focused and Systemic practice.
• To support personal advisors and team leaders to think about the network around the 18-25 leaving care and what may be the most appropriate support to address their need.
• To develop strong joint working relationships and practices across Children’s Services and Oxleas Community Mental Health Teams, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organization.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To take responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing the treatment plan for allocated clients as appropriate in a primary care service.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.