Children in Care Therapist

Are you interested in working with Children in Care in a CAMHS setting? By joining us as a Children in Care Therapist you will be providing direct evidenced based therapeutic interventions and support to children and adolescents resident in Children's Homes and assess and treat generic referrals within Specialist CAMHS. In this role you will provide research based, expert clinical consultancy and support, and where agreed supervision and training to foster carers, staff and managers caring for children and adolescents presenting with complex presentations and resident within Local Authority Children's Homes across Hampshire and support to other Specialist CAMHS staff working with children and young people. You will be a resource to be consulted by CAMHS and Local authority staff and managers regarding care experience children and young people. This is a part time position, working 22.5 hours per week.Main duties of the job To provide expert clinical consultancy, support, and where agreed supervision and training to staff and managers caring for children and adolescents with complex needs and expressed behaviours in local authority residential homes across Hampshire.

• To provide expert clinical consultancy, support, and where agreed, supervision and training to staff and managers caring for children and adolescents from across the county who are seen to be at risk to themselves and / or others. This includes carrying out standardised clinical assessments specifically designed for use with children and adolescents in secure accommodation settings.
• To provide assessments, consultation and direct therapeutic support for care experienced children and adolescents.
• To be a resource for consultation by senior managers concerning the setting up of support for local authority residential care managers and staff.
• To contribute to joint agency planning and support of the Children in Care Specialist Mental Health Service.
• To provide or be a resource Specialist CAMHS colleagues, contribute to the assessment of young children presenting with complex histories and symptomology by carrying out specialised psychological assessment of patterns of attachment and evidence of complex trauma.
• To provide specialised therapeutic support to children and families at the specific request of clinical colleagues and Specialist CAMHS managers.
  
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata