Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional clinician with proven and significant clinical experience to be Consultant Therapeutic Practitioner for the new Gender Service for the North of England. The Children and Young People's Gender Service is a Phase 1 Provider of Gender Services provided in partnership by Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Consultant Practitioner in the service you will provide highly specialist assessments, therapeutic interventions, advice and consultancy to children and young people, families. As a senior clinician, the postholder will provide clinical leadership to the service, including ensuring there is effective provision of supervision, good clinical governance and to ensure service delivery is based on professional standards and best practice guidelines.
Successful candidates will have a passion for delivering safe, high quality and effective services to children and young people and a commitment to staff development, and will be a strong communicator, well organised with the ability to work well under pressures in accordance with the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
The main duties for this role are provided in the attached job description
For further details please contactGSrecruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk
About us
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities for this role are provided in the attached job description/person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities for this role are provided in the attached job description/person specification
Person Specification
Education and Training
Essential
- Qualified in core profession as per BABCP criteria BABCP | British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies > Accreditation > Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist Accreditation > Core Professions > Core Professions list and criteria
- Further psychological therapy qualification at Masters level or above
- Current registration with appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC, BABCP, UKCP).
- Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g., in an area of clinical practice relevant to the service CBT, DBT, Specialist assessment) through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice
- Completed training course in clinical supervision
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the relevant regulatory body
- Education in relevant subject (clinical and/or leadership/management) to doctoral level or equivalent with supplementary training/experience, including evidence of advanced research skills.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in a clinical area relevant to children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature in in a clinical area relevant to children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Experience of supervising qualified clinical practitioners and practitioners in training
- Experience of providing teaching and training to professional groups.
- Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, audit or service evaluation projects.
- Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area
- Experience in the line management and professional management of staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership.
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies that are appropriate for children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant range of interventions for children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Advanced knowledge of clinical assessment and clinical psychometrics
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
- Substantial knowledge of research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
Skills
Essential
- To deliver relevant therapies and interventions across cultural and other differences.
- To select and administer specialist clinical assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and to organise meetings such as CPAs and case reviews.
- To plan delivery of services to the client group and carers, involving partner agencies.
- Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups.
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data and for teaching purposes.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Person Specification
Education and Training
Essential
- Qualified in core profession as per BABCP criteria BABCP | British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies > Accreditation > Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist Accreditation > Core Professions > Core Professions list and criteria
- Further psychological therapy qualification at Masters level or above
- Current registration with appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC, BABCP, UKCP).
- Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g., in an area of clinical practice relevant to the service CBT, DBT, Specialist assessment) through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice
- Completed training course in clinical supervision
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the relevant regulatory body
- Education in relevant subject (clinical and/or leadership/management) to doctoral level or equivalent with supplementary training/experience, including evidence of advanced research skills.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in a clinical area relevant to children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature in in a clinical area relevant to children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Experience of supervising qualified clinical practitioners and practitioners in training
- Experience of providing teaching and training to professional groups.
- Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, audit or service evaluation projects.
- Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area
- Experience in the line management and professional management of staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership.
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies that are appropriate for children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant range of interventions for children and young people with Gender Diversity
- Advanced knowledge of clinical assessment and clinical psychometrics
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
- Substantial knowledge of research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
Skills
Essential
- To deliver relevant therapies and interventions across cultural and other differences.
- To select and administer specialist clinical assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and to organise meetings such as CPAs and case reviews.
- To plan delivery of services to the client group and carers, involving partner agencies.
- Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups.
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data and for teaching purposes.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
