Post Graduate Certificate CYP IAPT Trainee Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To hold a caseload of assessments and treatment interventions based upon the therapeutic modality of their training.

To provide direct therapeutic interventions consistent with IAPT principles, their training modality and progress, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.

Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.

To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.

To participate directly in the teams duty rotas in line with the grading of the post.

To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.

To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care.

To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.

To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and Mersey Care Trust safeguarding policies.

Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.

To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification in one or more of the following: o A core profession (nursing, SW, psychology, OT) o Individual or group Psychotherapies E.g., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy IPT-A Person centred counselling Systemic Family Therapy/Practice Parenting therapies Counselling Art/creative therapies
• Attached to this professional qualification there must be registration/accreditation with an appropriate accrediting body from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) approved accredited register
• Registration/accreditation must include professional qualification requirements, CPD for maintenance of standards and a complaints process for practice concerns
• To be able to complete CYPIAPT training to PGDip level, including both academic and practice requirements

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and skills in a range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings
• Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents
• Have experience in providing risk assessments
• Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
• Experience of working within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the base
• Experience of taking clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, e.g., as a care co -ordinator and within the context of a multi -disciplinary team
• Knowledge of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups

Values

Essential

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential

• Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS
• Demonstrate the ability to co - ordinate care plan / risk management plan
• A commitment to the continuous improvement of services using feedback from individual clients, families, user surveys and clinical researc h
• Computer literate
• Ability to convey and to model an understanding of the ethical guidelines in all areas of professional conduct
• Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust Values at all time
• Physical and emotional stamina to work in the field of mental health with a caseload and in stressful situations
• Ability to travel around the trust and to the course provider sites to access the PGDip teaching
• Emotional stamina to learn and successfully complete a PGDip
• Ability to use clinical and case management supervision positively and effectively
• Ability to organise and coordinate areas of work
• Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
• Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).