Children in Care Service Highly Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

The Fostering Developments Team in was set up in 2019 to provide containment and digestion to new foster carers and social workers in GCC. It includes consultation, a training package and clinical group supervision to staff in the GCC fostering resource. These new posts are an opportunity to expand this provision to provide organisational consultancy support to the new residential homes in Gloucestershire, in order to add a therapeutic aspect to the care of the children and young people.

Main duties of the job

Post holder will work with the Residential Manager to embed a culture of containment and digestion of the emotional life of the residents and staff.

Provide highly specialist clinical leadership regarding ongoing service improvement initiatives (including implementing learning from continuous improvement cycles) which are in line with the current Service Plan or other service priorities. This may include identifying and leading clinical case reviews, routine audit, evaluating outcome measures and other research methodology.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Date posted

07 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-25-094

Job locations

Rikenel/ Children's Homes

Montpelier

Gloucester

GL1 1LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide an element of clinical leadership for Children in Care Service.

Provide highly specialist monthly clinical supervision to .to the childs support network, this will include social workers, residential support workers and Team and Deputy team managers.

Provide Consultation to Foster Carers and residential home support staff, whilst maintaining close links with the Fostering Teams within Social Care.

Deliver the Emotional World of the Child training, a training package written by Child Psychotherapists, to all newly approved Foster Carers, and residential home support staff. The course is a four module, 8-hour, training package that covers: child development research and the impact of trauma and ACEs. The impact of entry into care from the childs perspective, emotional safety & containment and rupture & repair, and how carers can support children to heal from trauma.

Contribute to clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Trust Policy and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a focus on multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and risk management using a trauma informed approach to provide a holistic picture of the childs needs

Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision making, assessment, clinical formulation and the management of clinical needs, including clinical risk.

Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CPD/core competency training.

Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of childrens services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice.

Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.

Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.

Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities. This includes communicating highly complex clinical information within multiagency settings and involves making difficult ethical and clinical judgements.

Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of the CYPS Operational Policy

Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities

Change work base as requested by the CYPS Service Director

Teaching to a range of CYPS qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis (including placements for students/profession specific trainees) to facilitate the development and consolidation of core skills and competencies within the workforce.

Be accessible to deliver specialist consultation and supervision to CAMHS staff regarding cases where there are either urgent high risk needs or other complex, vulnerability or poor engagement needs. This will include providing high quality and specialist profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions.

Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.