Job summary
Are you looking to support Looked After, Adopted Children/Young People and their carers/families using your therapeutic skills? Would you like to be a part of an enthusiastic and supportive team? Then the LAAC CAMHS team in Bradford is the place where you would be welcomed as a practitioner and your skills embraced.
Bradford District Care Foundation Trust can offer you compassionate and inclusive leadership. We are keen to hear and learn from your experience to further develop our trauma informed service. We truly respect the expertise new staff bring to our service.
Are you passionate about Children's Mental Health Services and enthusiastic about collaborating with colleagues across the service and between agencies? If so, we are keen to consider applicants who wish to develop and work towards improving our relationships with partner agencies.
If you would like further information about this role, please contact Indira Patel Team Leader LAAC Team
indira.patel@bdct.nhs.uk or telephone number 0790 8087 110 or Wendy Lewis Clinical Lead wendy.lewis@bdct.nhs.uk 07717693447
Closing Date- 25th April 2023
Shortlist Date- 26th April 2023
Interview Date- 11th May 2023
Main duties of the job
- Develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contributetowards the overall assessment of their care needs.
- Collaboratively establish individual patient's goals towards recovery.
- Determine suitability of specific psychological interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patient's assessment/formulation.
- Plan, deliver and review individual and group psychological interventions for specific patients.
- Contribute to the planning/review cycle of the psychological therapyprogramme.
- Identify gaps within and potential developments of the psychological therapy programme, reporting these to supervisory staff
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person the specification for more details about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person the specification for more details about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifcation/s
Essential
- Registered Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN). Current Registration on part 3 or part 13 of NMC register. OR Occupational Therapist registration HPC OR Psychological Therapy qualification (at degree level or equivalent) OR Psychologist with BPS approved degree in Psychology, working towards doctorate OR Social Workers registered SWE
Desirable
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience. Qualified psychological therapist, working towards accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body eg BABCP, BACP, UKCP Additional therapy training in Traumabased interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience in relevant area of mental health practise i.e. working with children and families Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
Desirable
- nvolvement in innovative clinical practice. Clinical leadership experience. Experience delivering psychological therapies to groups of patients. Experience in applying specialist psychological therapies.
Person Specification
Qualifcation/s
Essential
- Registered Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN). Current Registration on part 3 or part 13 of NMC register. OR Occupational Therapist registration HPC OR Psychological Therapy qualification (at degree level or equivalent) OR Psychologist with BPS approved degree in Psychology, working towards doctorate OR Social Workers registered SWE
Desirable
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience. Qualified psychological therapist, working towards accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body eg BABCP, BACP, UKCP Additional therapy training in Traumabased interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience in relevant area of mental health practise i.e. working with children and families Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
Desirable
- nvolvement in innovative clinical practice. Clinical leadership experience. Experience delivering psychological therapies to groups of patients. Experience in applying specialist psychological therapies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
