Children in Care Service Specialist Practitioner

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us ., This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Practitioner to join a newly integrated health service for children in care, at a time when the service is being developed. The service consists of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, which offers specialist physical and emotional health input to professionals, carers and care experienced children and young people (aged 0-18) in Gloucestershire., Provide high quality and specialist profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of therapeutic interventions.
Provide a range of specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) in care who present with emotional and mental health difficulties.
Provide specialist clinical consultation and advice to carers and professionals working within a range of children's services within Gloucestershire.
Provide clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making, 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 specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs.
Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and case management through care plans.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification., · Provide a range of specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) who present with emotional and mental health difficulties. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice.
· Provide clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making, 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 specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs. For Clinical Psychology: to provide a direct service for complex psychological issues
· Provide specialist clinical risk assessments and complex risk management plans as part of routine clinical work ensuring that all aspects of clinical caseload work adhere to current Trust safeguarding as well as risk assessment and management best practice procedures.
· Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation. For Clinical Psychology: Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and case management through care plans.
· Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff on a routine basis to facilitate the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies within the workforce (not applicable for Clinical Psychology).
· Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
· Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other continuous professional development (CPD) /core competency training.
· Provide specialist clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
· As agreed within personal job plan, to provide specialist, profession-based interventions within specific care pathways or clinics.
· Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning, consultation, signposting and support to children young people and their families as well as professionals/workers within universal and targeted settings (e.g. Primary Care, GCC, voluntary sector).
· Provide high quality and specialist profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of therapeutic interventions.
· Provide specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of children's services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis.
· Participate in the recruitment and selection of new staff, including overseeing local induction when required.
· Work flexibly to provide interventions within a range of clinical and community settings dependent on client and service need. Situations may demand an unpredictable work pattern and difficult situations as well as the need to balance a range of complex and high risk clinical needs and presentations.
· Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
· Demonstrate clinical leadership and commitment to working with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services., ensuring routine clinical work reflects proactive involvement and collaborative working with children, young people, their carers and network.
· Demonstrate clinical leadership and commitment to ensuring the "voice" of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.
· Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.
· Offer regular student/trainee placements, including meeting all teaching, assessing and preceptorship needs on a routine basis. For Clinical Psychology and Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy: this will be in line with experience.
· Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities.
· Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of Care Coordinator responsibilities.
· Be accountable for maintaining own professional actions guided by the profession specific standards and Code of Conduct. This includes carrying out continuous professional development (CPD) activity to maintain knowledge of legislation, national, local policies and issues in relation to both specific client group and wider clinical practice. This includes maintaining a professional Continuing CPD log to meet professional expectations and requirements.
· Demonstrate clinical leadership and actively contribute to delivery of the current Service Plan as well as considering new/innovative ways of delivering clinical care to the CiC population.
· As part of a clinical leadership role, to deputise for the Team Manager as requested by Management.

We are looking for a Practitioner who is passionate, enthusiastic and committed to delivering excellent and evidence based practice for our children in care, with experience of working with developmental trauma and complex emotional needs. You will be working alongside a supportive and compassionate team with opportunities for co working, development and networking with other agencies.

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.

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
+ Free car parking at many of our sites
+ 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
+ A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
+ A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
+ Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
+ Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
+ Recognition and long service awards
+ Fast Track physiotherapy
+ Our Wellbeing line
+ Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.