An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health Service in Knowsley.
We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, therapists and support workers who assess, treat and signpost referrals received for children and young people displaying mental health difficulties.
The successful candidate will be a key part of the multidisciplinary team, with caseload management responsibilities. They should have excellent communication skills to communicate with both internal and external professionals along with the young people and families that we work with.
Knowsley CYPMHS is part of the THRIVE offer within Knowsley and the successful candidate will hold a key role in ensuring the effective use of this.
Main duties of the job
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the specialist service.
Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions in line with the specialist psychological model of care. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for children and young people. Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties, including bonding and attachment difficulties.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of children and young people in line with the service. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language, and all the while keeping children and young people in mind.
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring stepped formulation driven care is delivered to maintain a matched-care approach.
Job responsibilities
Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g., BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g., NHS plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
Be aware of and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies in children and young peoples mental health.
Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager and Senior Clinical Lead.
Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
Attend relevant conferences / workshops relevant to perinatal and parent-infant mental health, in line with identified professional objectives.
Participate in service improvement by highlighting issues and implementing changes in practice.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Qualifications
* Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation
* AND - Has BABCP accreditation or able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
* Experience with routine outcome monitoring
* Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
* Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrates the competences as required
* Knowledge of the theory and evidence for psychological interventions
Knowledge
* Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in children and young people
* Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
* Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems. oDemonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
* Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
* Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
* Knowledge of the theory and evidence for psychological interventions
Skills
* Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
* Ability to manage own caseload and time
* Demonstrates high standards in written communication
* Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
* Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops
* Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
* Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation
* Advanced communication skills
* Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
* Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
* Ability to work under pressure
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
* Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
* The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
* Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
* Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation
* Completed clinical audits within a service
* Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
* Fluent in languages other than English Passion for working therapeutically with Children and Young People, including holding the child/young person, parent/carer and whole family in mind
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.
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