Court Supervisor PO8

Job Description

Job Title : Court Supervisor PO8
Job Category : Interims
Location : Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council
Hours Per Week : 22.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £231.87 per day

3 DAYS PER WEEK

“Any further detail: Please refer to the attached Job description for full details. These roles will be for direct work with Clinical Court work ie providing court ordered clinical assessments, an experienced clinician able to manage a complex caseload is needed for this role. The Court Clinical Practitioner post (Court Clinic) sits within the Hackney Children and Families Clinical Service; which is an integrated psychological therapies multidisciplinary team serving a range of Children and Families services. This includes:
Hackney Children’s Social Care,
Young Hackney,
the Youth Offending Service and
the Family Support Service.
Whilst competence and confidence with supervision is essential, previous experience of court work is not a prerequisite and we would welcome applications from those who have an interest in developing their skills in this area of important work. Given the disproportionality in children from global majority groups who are subject to proceedings and subsequently removed, we are particularly focused on embeding the social determinants of mental health, and our developments in anti-racist practice into our assessments and formulations in a meaningful way so as to bring a thoughtful scrutiny to the benefits and limitations of existing mainstream psychological assessment tools often used in court work. Supervision will be provided by the Clinical & Systemic Leads.

Education and training
1. The post holder will hold a UK recognised Psychology, Psychotherapy or Mental Health professional qualification with significant relevant qualifying experience in delivering specialist assessments and therapies to children and families from a range of backgrounds.
2. The post holder will have current UK professional registration with the relevant body.
Training and Qualifications
Essential
• Professional Training in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychology, Systemic
Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nurse or equivalent qualification.
Desirable
⦁ Supervisor Training
⦁ The post holder is required to demonstrate continuing professional development and have completed advanced training in relevant areas e.g. CBT or Family Therapy, Trauma-focused interventions, VIG, EMDR, Functional Family Therapy,
Mentalisation-based Therapy, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Experience
Essential

Significant relevant qualifying & supervised experience working with children with behavioural, emotional and psychological problems
⦁ Experience of supporting multidisciplinary team working in complex environments.
⦁ Ability to work with vulnerable people in highly pressured situations, and to manage high levels of risk and anxiety while maintaining safe practice, sound decision-making and professional presentation.
⦁ Ability to conduct high quality and clinical risk assessments in a timely way
⦁ Experience of relevant health and social care systems, agencies and professions.
⦁ Experience of providing teaching and training
⦁ Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children’s psychological care and treatment
⦁ Significant relevant experience of working with vulnerable groups and individuals within diverse ethnic communities, and culturally appropriate practice with a commitment to anti-racist practice.
⦁ Experience of supervising trainee therapists and psychologists on placement
Desirable
⦁ Experience of expert witness work
⦁ Experience of working in a family therapy clinic
⦁ Experience of facilitating groups
⦁ Experience and knowledge in structured clinical interviews for the assessment of parent-child relationships
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
⦁ Skills in complex methods of clinical assessment including specialist assessment tools and techniques, and risk assessments where there is significant mental health risk
Skilled in undertaking assessments of children’s emotional and psychological needs and contributing these assessments to case planning in a multi-disciplinary context, including the analysis of complex information and clinical risk
⦁ A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of professionals
⦁ Well grounded knowledge of the factors affecting the emotional well being of children who have experienced trauma, separation and loss, and an excellent ability to respond to these in a pressurised environment
⦁ Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised interventions with children who have experienced trauma, neglect and abuse, family difficulties and psycho-social stressors
⦁ Ability to engage hard-to-reach families who would not otherwise access CAMHS services
⦁ Skills in providing specialist consultation to other professionals
⦁ Strong ability to lead on clinical issues and practice within a Children and Families Services context.
⦁ Knowledge of legislation, policy and practice guidance as it relates to children’s receiving statutory social work interventions
⦁ Knowledge and an ability to respond effectively to the needs of children and families from a diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds
⦁ Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with professional registration requirements
⦁ Ability and willingness to work independently with clients and in a variety of settings such as family homes, schools and community settings
⦁ Ability and knowledge of online clinical assessment and therapy and virtual delivery of psychological support.