Allied Health Professional

Job description

Job responsibilities

• The assessment and management of young peoples physical and mental health- working to understand and manage complex risk with individuals and across services and networks. Supporting children, young people and families in gaining safety first and supporting teams to maintain placements. You will encourage and participate in formulating the individuals strengths and difficulties and in promoting a culture of systemic thinking about risk, including positive risk taking as well as risk management.
• Supporting and developing internal teams- You will support Fair Ways services in a Team-around-the-Relationship approach to service-delivery, understanding the importance of meeting young people and Fair Ways teams where they are at and using relationship as the base. This allows Fair Ways colleagues, children, young people and families to feel safe, develop relationships, learn to be co-regulated and develop understanding around emotions.
• Trauma Informed Workforce Development You will provide leadership to the wider Fair Ways team, contributing to service development commensurate with the organisations goals but with particular focus on supporting the understanding of complex trauma alongside other presentations of mental ill health or neurodiversity, and in assessing and managing risk. You will do this through supporting the personal and continuous professional development of Fair Ways staff, through 1-1 supervision, formal training and through trickle-training" in trauma informed approaches as well as through direct therapeutic work.
• Research and critical appraisal skills -Using evidence to support clinical decision-making and oversight, both within own practice and when supporting teams. You will also contribute to an ongoing program of audit to evaluate practice within the Hub Team, and within wider Fair Ways services, ensuring that the data is used to develop and improve outcomes for our young people.
• Quality and Governance -You will do this through understanding and supporting the use of routine outcome measures, as well as helping to analyse the data and support the quality safety governance team in improving services through reviewing and developing new practice policies and procedures when required. You will show commitment to your own personal and continuous professional development through self-assessment, supervision, training, and the acquisition of different learning opportunities.
• Multidisciplinary and inter-agency working You will liaise with relevant professionals, providers, commissioners establishing positive working relationships with local networks (particularly CAMHs, AMH, Local GP surgeries) around the young people we support across the Charity. These working relationships help us to manage crisis and improve outcomes over the long term. You will do this by writing and distributing theraputic needs assessments with clear formulations alongside multi-agency risk management plans across services within Fair Ways and with our partner agencies (CAMHs, Social Services, Schools).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of a core professional qualification and registration with associated governing body, e.g. Social Work England, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Evidence of continuous CPD in specialist area.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of clinical and risk assessment for people experiencing a range of difficulties.

Desirable

• Clinical and experience in a Child and Adolescent setting that demonstrates the appropriate competencies for the role. Familiarity with the NHS and Social Care agenda and national directives and strategy relating to service user safety and quality improvement.
• Understanding of the changing landscape of public sector organizations and the current pressures on external services.
• Experience of delivering specialist interventions in the assessment and care of children and young people with complex needs, developmental trauma and attachment difficulties.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Fair Ways

Address

Fairways Education

Military Road

Fareham

Hampshire

PO16 8TT

Employer's website

https://www.fairways.co/ (Opens in a new tab)