Overview
Contract Type: Part time – 30 hours per week
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
To be responsible for providing high quality therapeutic support and advice to children and young people, parents and families who present with a range of mental health and emotional needs in relation to the child’s experience of sexual trauma.
Main duties of the job
To deliver therapeutic support and advice to children, young people and families affected by sexual trauma.
To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist support in relation to children, young people and families referred to STARS
To offer therapeutic sessions to a child or young people, on a group, family or individual basis, including pre-trial support and to review progress of the support provided on a regular basis. This can include evening groups for young people.
To offer support and advice to the carers of children and young people affected by sexual trauma. This may include individual, group or family work.
To undertake ongoing evaluation of the outcome of the interventions provided.
To be committed to providing a high quality child focused service for children and young people affected by sexual trauma, highlighting and respecting the wishes of the child or young person.
To be able to support the service with providing clinical supervision to others, where appropriate.
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Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work alongside other professionals (e.g. schools, other mental health support teams, children’s services, Surrey SARC and child protection agencies) in planning how best to support a child and the child’s family.
To assist in STARS training events and to offer highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals working with children and families who have been affected by childhood sexual trauma.
To refer people to other services where appropriate (e.g. school counsellor, ACT, Community Mental Health Teams, Youth Services)
To ensure complex and sensitive information is managed appropriate.
To communicate in a professional and sensitive manner with other agencies, with a view to maintaining the appropriate level of confidentiality.
To have an expert awareness of safeguarding issues and to be clear about roles and responsibilities to report, respond to and share information in relation to safeguarding.
To promote early intervention and active engagement amongst the network, being an ambassador for mental wellbeing and providing expertise in emotional and mental health across the system in order to effect better outcomes for Children and young people.
To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload of children and adolescents with emotional well-being issues and more complex emerging mental health issues often involving additional problem areas, such as self-harming, depression, trauma and attachment issues.
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A relevant professional registration in one of the following disciplines, Nursing RMN, Social Worker DipSW/MSW, Systemic Psychotherapy (UKCP Registration), Art Psychotherapy, Drama Therapy, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (ACP Registration), Music therapy, Play Therapy, Clinical Psychology
- A professional registration is essential (e.g. NMC, SWE, UKCP, HCPC, ACP)
- Further appropriate post registration training in the speciality of child and adolescent mental health e.g. Systemic psychotherapy, Play, art, drama therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), DBT (Dialectic Behaviour Therapy), Trauma Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) , CATT (Children’s Accelerated Trauma Technique)
Desirable criteria
- Sexual trauma based therapy training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with young people with complex mental health needs and sexual trauma
- Knowledge of the effects of abuse on children and young people and their families and the dynamics of abusive behaviour
- Experience of direct work with children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse/sexual trauma
- Experience of working with other agencies e.g. Social Services and Education.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with primary health care professionals
- Knowledge of relevant mental health and children’s legislation.
- Detailed knowledge of national training initiatives and priorities in respect of young people and mental health
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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