Job summary
Are you passionate
about working with children who have encountered a difficult and
traumatic start to life? Do you want to make a real difference to
adopted and care-experienced young people? We are looking to expand our
Sensory Integration provision to meet the growing need of our service
users for high quality assessments and interventions. We recognise the
crucial role sensory integration can have in achieving good outcomes for
the children and families we support and having got our sensory package
established, we need the right person to help us grow and develop it.
You
will be working closely with our existing SI OTs and team of
Psychologists and Therapists to offer multi-disciplinary assessments of
attachment and sensory needs for children. You may also be offering
consultations to families regarding their childs sensory needs and
there is scope to offer direct work to children and families as well as
consultation and training to the wider network.
The Child
Psychology Service (TCPS) CIC is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim
is to provide caring, therapeutic, psychological support to children
and their families. We provide a free-at-the-point-of-access service to
families and deliver training and consultations to partner
organisations. We work closely with our colleagues in the NHS and social
care to provide specialist, therapeutic assessments and interventions
that arent always available within statutory services.
Main duties of the job
- Provide high-quality sensory assessments & therapy to children and their families remotely & potentially in their homes/schools under supervision
- To provide effective sensory therapies to children under supervision
- Provide high quality, succinct assessment reports, which guide interventions
- To develop your skills to enable you to deliver SI parent consultations in the future
- Provide high quality, succinct evaluation reports, which demonstrate effectiveness of interventions
- To build and maintain relationships with children and their families & the professional networks around them, often in highly challenging circumstances
- Provide consultation & training to professionals
- Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary team to promote the safety of children and management of risk
- Maintain the high reputation of the service
- Work with the team to develop new areas of service provision e.g. consultation to Residential Homes, training to schools etc
- Work within the needs of a social enterprise
- Ensure that work is high quality
- Reach productivity targets required to sustain the service
- Play an active role in promoting and advocating the service
- Ensure that all TCPS policies & procedures are understood and put into practice
- Attend & actively participate in staff development sessions, team meetings, individual or group supervision, clinical supervision & other meetings as required
- To work flexibly
- To undertake any other duties as required
About us
The Child Psychology
Service (TCPS) is a Social Enterprise that has been established for
thirteen years and is built with therapeutic principles guiding its
structure from the inside out. We foster an ethos of playfulness,
acceptance, curiosity and empathy in all that we do. TCPS has built a
strong reputation of effectiveness and compassion as demonstrated by
what our clients and commissioners say about us and our Outstanding
Ofsted status (see our website). TCPS works predominantly with
care-experienced and adopted children and their families. We also
provide consultation services to Local Authorities, Regional Adoption
Agencies, residential childrens homes and schools. We invest heavily in
our staff so that they have what they need to offer the highest quality
services to children, families and partner agencies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high-quality sensory integration assessments and therapy to children and their families remotely and potentially in their homes/schools under supervision.
- To provide high-quality, effective sensory therapies to children under supervision.
- Provide high quality, succinct assessment reports, which guide interventions.
- To develop your skills to enable you to deliver SI parent consultations in the future.
- Provide high quality, succinct evaluation reports, which demonstrate effectiveness of interventions.
- To build and maintain relationships with children and their families and the professional networks around them, often in highly challenging circumstances.
- Provide consultation and training to professionals in relation to their work with children and their families.
- Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary team to promote the safety of children and the management of risk.
- Maintain the high reputation of the service.
- Work with the team to develop new areas of service provision e.g. consultation to Residential Homes, training to schools etc.
- Work within the needs of a social enterprise
- Ensure that work is of high quality
- Reach productivity targets required to sustain the service
- Play an active role in promoting and advocating for the service
- Ensure that all TCPS policies and procedures are understood and put into practice
- Attend and actively participate in staff development sessions, team meetings, individual or group supervision, clinical supervision and other meetings as required
- To work flexibly and occasionally work unsocial hours to meet the needs of the service as required
- To undertake any other duties as required in line with the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and its grading
What we can offer you:
- Full and part-time hours considered - minimum three days per week
- A mixture of both face-to-face work in your local area - West or East Midlands and online work nationally.
- A dedicated SI clinic space at both bases.
- Opportunities to train in attachment-informed approaches e.g. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, SAI
- Regular in-house supervision from a psychologist plus specialist SI focussed supervision.
- Monthly journal club.
- An
opportunity to specialise in attachment and developmental trauma within
a team who lives and breathes PACE
- Great benefits including competitive salary linked
to NHS A4C pay scales; 26 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and the
option to purchase up to five additional days (FTE); maternity
packages, and membership of a pension scheme.
- Being part of a
friendly, happy and extremely dedicated team where staff wellbeing is a
priority and you can manage your own workload.
- A role where people say this about working here: It is so satisfying working with families that are motivated and engaged. TCPS really cares for its children and families.
- The opportunity to work for an organisation consistently rated OUTSTANDING by Ofsted: The work undoubtedly ensures families stay together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide high-quality sensory integration assessments and therapy to children and their families remotely and potentially in their homes/schools under supervision.
- To provide high-quality, effective sensory therapies to children under supervision.
- Provide high quality, succinct assessment reports, which guide interventions.
- To develop your skills to enable you to deliver SI parent consultations in the future.
- Provide high quality, succinct evaluation reports, which demonstrate effectiveness of interventions.
- To build and maintain relationships with children and their families and the professional networks around them, often in highly challenging circumstances.
- Provide consultation and training to professionals in relation to their work with children and their families.
- Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary team to promote the safety of children and the management of risk.
- Maintain the high reputation of the service.
- Work with the team to develop new areas of service provision e.g. consultation to Residential Homes, training to schools etc.
- Work within the needs of a social enterprise
- Ensure that work is of high quality
- Reach productivity targets required to sustain the service
- Play an active role in promoting and advocating for the service
- Ensure that all TCPS policies and procedures are understood and put into practice
- Attend and actively participate in staff development sessions, team meetings, individual or group supervision, clinical supervision and other meetings as required
- To work flexibly and occasionally work unsocial hours to meet the needs of the service as required
- To undertake any other duties as required in line with the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and its grading
What we can offer you:
- Full and part-time hours considered - minimum three days per week
- A mixture of both face-to-face work in your local area - West or East Midlands and online work nationally.
- A dedicated SI clinic space at both bases.
- Opportunities to train in attachment-informed approaches e.g. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, SAI
- Regular in-house supervision from a psychologist plus specialist SI focussed supervision.
- Monthly journal club.
- An
opportunity to specialise in attachment and developmental trauma within
a team who lives and breathes PACE
- Great benefits including competitive salary linked
to NHS A4C pay scales; 26 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and the
option to purchase up to five additional days (FTE); maternity
packages, and membership of a pension scheme.
- Being part of a
friendly, happy and extremely dedicated team where staff wellbeing is a
priority and you can manage your own workload.
- A role where people say this about working here: It is so satisfying working with families that are motivated and engaged. TCPS really cares for its children and families.
- The opportunity to work for an organisation consistently rated OUTSTANDING by Ofsted: The work undoubtedly ensures families stay together.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Applicants will have completed some post graduate sensory integration training, but we will support the right applicant to continue their qualification journey.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Applicants will have completed some post graduate sensory integration training, but we will support the right applicant to continue their qualification journey.
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
