Psychological Therapist

Job summary

Hello, my name is James and I am the Team Manager of the Child, Family and Young People Service for Looked After and Adopted Children (CYFP LAAC).

We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 7 Psychological Therapist within our LAAC Mental Health Team in Norfolk and Waveney. This is a fixed term contract/secondment for 12 months to cover a maternity leave. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are in care, adopted or under SGO, and their carers and families.

What we do:

The LAAC team is a specialist service offering timely trauma informed mental health assessment and longer-term evidence-based therapy for children in care and adopted children where there are specific concerns around mental health.

We are in the process of developing our pathways model for the LAAC team. This pathway will sit closely alongside our CORE teams. The overarching therapeutic approach is based on a trauma informed dyadic or systemic clinical model. Some of the individual therapies used by the team include DDP, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Trauma and Attachment focussed Therapy, VIG, Trauma focused therapies including EMDR and TF-CBT, Play Therapy, Systemic Approaches and Mentalization Based Therapies. There will be opportunities for applicants to train in DDP.

Main duties of the job

To be part of an established team, and to support the delivery of exceptional trauma informed therapeutic support to children in care or adopted between the ages of 0-18 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the context of their early childhood experiences.

• Undertaking comprehensive assessments of complex young people and their systems, developing meaningful formulations, and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
• Providing evidence-based interventions and treatment for children in care with a wide range of mental health presentations.
• To manage a clinical caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment of complex cases within the team and to support the professional systems around the child or young person to address and positively manage risk.
• To confidently use psychometrics or other testing to assess and formulate cases.
• To contribute to the development of a response and effective therapeutic service within the team.
• To contribute to service development and projects within the team.
• An opportunity to supervise trainees on placement within the team.
• To travel independently across Norfolk, each Clinician is allocated a specific locality to travel to (either, East, West or Central).

About us

Working patterns:

We understand our colleagues have other commitments outside of work so we are open to discussing full and part-time working hours, and welcome conversations around flexible working options too.

As an organisation we are absolutely committed to strengthening and creating real opportunities for learning, improving, and working creatively. We provide clinical supervision, specialist training and opportunities for professional development. We aim to nurture staff development and are passionate about improving standards and user experience.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Little Plumstead

Unit 5a, Octagon Business Park, Little Plumstead

Norwich

NR13 5FH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Little Plumstead

Unit 5a, Octagon Business Park, Little Plumstead

Norwich

NR13 5FH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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