Overview
Join us be You and make a difference to a child's life. Bury CAMHS is a high-performing and dynamic child and adolescent mental health service, working closely with commissioners and with our partners in Children’s Services, education and the VCSE sector to develop models of care within the principles of the i‑thrive framework. Our vision is for our local community to be well-equipped to support children and young people, the adults of tomorrow, to grow up with good emotional health and well‑being. In addition to the successes of our Early Attachment service, Mental Health Support Team (schools), and innovative RISE team (emotional well‑being service for children and families). As a borough, we are committed at a commissioning and senior leadership level to continue to build on this experience and we aspire to provide our children and young people in care with high quality, trauma‑informed services, including access to assessment and psychological therapies provided in a timely manner. The postholder will work alongside colleagues and provide training, consultation, supervision and specialist intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma‑informed practice across the large multi‑agency network of mixed professionals and supporting healthy relationships within our Bury families. The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment. S/he will provide assessment and treatment of children and young people and their carers grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi‑agency training of relevant professionals across Bury. The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues.
Benefits
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
* Access to Continued Professional Development
* Involvement in improvement and research activities
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Key Responsibilities
* The postholder will work alongside colleagues and provide training, consultation, supervision and specialist intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma‑informed practice across the large multi‑agency network of mixed professionals and supporting healthy relationships within our Bury families.
* The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment.
* S/he will provide assessment and treatment of children and young people and their carers grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
* The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi‑agency training of relevant professionals across Bury.
* The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues.
* The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and delivery of a specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi‑agency context.
* They will provide specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and young people who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties and to make decisions about treatment possibilities.
* They will work independently and collaboratively as part of the team to ensure the most appropriate support and intervention to meet the young persons needs is identified and communicated and, where appropriate, provided in a timely manner.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
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