Thornaby and Doncaster Fostering Clinical - Five Rivers Child Care Ltd

Five Rivers Child Care Ltd

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Doncaster, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Thornaby and Doncaster Fostering Clinical Practitioner (HCPC Registered Psychologist or UKCP Registered Psychotherapist)

To turn vulnerable children's lives around, it's not enough to simply care for them.

We need the adults around them to help them heal from past experiences of trauma, abuse, and neglect, and move forward with confidence, safety, and self-esteem.

As a Five Rivers clinician, you will take a lead in embedding Attachment and Trauma Informed Care (ATIC) approaches within the Midlands & North Fostering Service.

Attachment and Trauma Informed Care (ATIC) is about using our research and knowledge of how children form bonds to their caregivers and working to meet children 'where they are' to recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) gently and safely.

Children have often needed to develop a range of responses to survive and cope with adversity.

Our foster carers offer the right care and experiences to allow children to gradually let go of these survival responses.

Using a care model that knows about attachment and trauma, you will support staff and foster carers to provide children with a sense of safety and containment, and opportunities to experience healthy, nurturing relationships.

This allows self-esteem to build and supports them to heal from past experiences.

It may be small steps at first, but ATIC and Assessment & Therapy are what enable Five Rivers to not simply care for children, but to turn children's lives around.

Your role

Job title:
Thornaby and Doncaster Fostering Clinical Practitioner (HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or UKCP registered Psychotherapist)

Part time: 2 days

Location:
Thornaby and Doncaster offices

Salary:
£40,000-£50,000 (NHS band 7 or 8a, depending on level of experience) pro rata

Due to internal promotion, we are recruiting a clinical practitioner for 2 days per week to support to the Five Rivers Fostering service in Thornaby and Doncaster.

The team includes Supervising Social Workers, Fostering Support Workers, Team and Service Managers, and administrative support staff.

As a team, they are enthusiastic and welcoming, and they work hard to embrace psychological thinking and reflective practice approaches into their work with carers and young people.

The Clinical Practitioner's input is highly valued, and their opinions and formulations are actively integrated into social work practice.

The role is home based with travel to the offices expected at least once per month where your primary task will be supporting the professional system working around the children.

Your role will focus on supporting and upskilling managers, social workers, support workers and foster carers to embed and infuse attachment and trauma-informed care approaches into their practice.

Currently, this is achieved through the delivery of group consultation, reflective practice, training, assessment, and formulation.

There is much scope for evolving and expanding the clinical role within the team and we are proud to have a dynamic and creative approach to implementing meaningful change within our service.

Role requirements:

Clinical psychologists or counselling psychologists must be HCPCregistered (pending registration considered if you have a doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology)
Child psychotherapists must be UKCP registered and accredited
Essential: must have experience relating to working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and maltreatment
Essential: must have experience working with families and professional statutory systems around lookedafter children (e.g., local authorities, CAMHS)
Desirable: experience completing clinical assessments and delivering training programmes
Home based with travel expected to the Thornaby and Doncaster offices once per month
Start date: immediate

You will receive:

Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 (pro rata, equivalent to NHS band 7 or 8a depending on level of experience)
25 days' holiday plus 8 bank holidays pro rata
Company pension scheme
Enhanced DBS check and update service
SimplyHealth employee healthcare cashback scheme
PerkBox online benefit programme for employee perks and discounts
Employee referral scheme
Employee assistance programme
Death in service benefit
Ongoing clinical and professional support and supervision from a highly experienced Assessment and Therapy Team
Extensive training and continued professional development opportunities, including access to online CPD platform, Therapeutic Care training, Story Stem Assessment Training, and Clinical Trauma Specialist Certification
Peer Buddy allocated at induction to support you through probation period and beyond
Monthly reflective practice space
Fully funded 2day team development events three times a year.

Role Profile:

Reasons to join us:
As an Assessment and Therapy team, we have a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing, collaboration, connection and integration,