Advanced Clinical Practitioner – P07 – SURGE Team

Job Description

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified (Childrens)
Location: Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £201.25 per day

“Critical questions:
Candidates must have current full professional registration with the relevant body
clinical supervision experience.
a minimum 2  years post qualification experience.

Further Detail:
You are invited to join the clinical team in Hackney, working in an innovative and integrated way within Children and Families Services. In this role, you will be leading on providing specialist assessments, therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families and providing consultation and clinical expertise to professionals. This particular post is working within a multi disciplinary team of professionals specifically created in response to the coronavirus pandemic which has impacted many children and young people (CYP) and their families. The team will be specifically working with young people presenting with issues related to clinical risk and the offer will be intensive intervention.

Our team is part of the City and Hackney CAMHS Alliance, and we provide high quality and evidence-based clinical assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families as well as consultation and training to social care staff, youth workers and foster carers.

Clinicians within our service represent a range of disciplines, including Clinical Psychology, Systemic Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy, Forensic Psychology, Occupational Therapy, and Couples Therapy.  They deliver high quality assessments and multi-modal, evidence-based interventions to children who have a wide range of presenting needs in relation to their emotional health and wellbeing, family lives and wider systems.  Clinicians also provide complex CAMHS assessments of children funded by the Adoption Support Fund. We offer assessments within the Public Law Outline and for the Youth Courts. Training provided by our Clinicians includes AFT-accredited postgraduate Systemic training, as well as training for foster carers and consultation to professionals from a range of disciplines. Hackney Children and Families Services holds a commitment to Systemic practice.

You will also have the opportunity to be part of innovative service developments, such as the development of Contextual Safeguarding practice to address peer risk issues.

Hackney’s clinical service is well-established and has a strong learning culture as well as ongoing ties to local and national partners in developing best practice. Clinicians have the opportunity to work across Children’s Social Care, Youth Justice, Early Help.  Clinicians deliver evidence-based assessments to children and their families in their homes, placements and other community settings. This includes individual, family and group work. Clinical supervision and line management is provided within the service in line with professional governance requirements. Specialist supervision and CPD is available for therapeutic approaches including Systemic practice, VIG, the Parent Child Game, Theraplay and DDP.

Dynamic, innovative, committed and passionate, you’ll bring a comprehensive knowledge and skill-base to the challenge of working with diverse children and families. Candidates must hold a UK recognised psychology or psychotherapy qualification, with significant relevant experience in delivering specialist therapies to children and families from a range of backgrounds. You will be required to demonstrate continuing professional development including specialist training in relevant areas and have current UK professional registration with the relevant body.

An enhanced DBS check is required.