Advanced Practitioner / Psychologist / Creative Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner, Creative Practitioner, or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the East Riding CAMHS Looked After Children Team.

We are seeking to employ an Advanced Practitioner or Creative Practitioner who holds HCPC registration, or a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who has experience in the assessment, formulation, and therapy of children and young people with histories of trauma.

The appointed clinician will join a committed multidisciplinary CLA Service within East Riding CAMHS. The main duties will include consultation with professionals and other agencies, undertaking assessments of children and young people, as well as the networks around them, and offering direct therapeutic interventions informed by clear formulations. The team also provides support to the Local Authority Children's Residential Homes.

This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to the transformational work underway, with the vision of becoming trauma-informed and developing the AMBIT framework across CAMHS pathways.

Main duties of the job

• To provide advanced assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after, including children & young people living in residential children's homes and foster placements.
• To offer psychological interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their carers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation.
• To contribute to complex decision making around, for example, the commissioning of external therapeutic interventions for young people and/or their carers.
• To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation, wellbeing support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.
• To deliver evidence based interventions, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.
• To contribute to complex decision making around the child's emotional well-being and mental health needs within their placement.
• To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other. agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.
• To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting young people who are looked after or are care leavers.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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