Clinical Lead - Hockley House

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge?

We are looking for a Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Allied Health Professional, Psychologist, or Psychotherapist with current registration (appropriate to the job role) to lead in providing specialist trauma-informed mental health support, including multiagency consultation, assessments, risk, and care planning, for young people with complex difficulties that are placed in a Specialist Hampshire Residential Home, Hockley House.

You will work with Specialist CAMHS, to implement therapeutic care plans and support residential staff to use Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) skills to provide trauma informed parenting and practice, to support young people with complex trauma to feel safe. As a Lead you will provide supervision to Mental Health workers and contribute to mental health training and implementation of therapeutic parenting for all residential staff.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

• In partnership with CAMHS, to take a daily lead on clinical matters for young people, and development of policy relating to therapeutic care practice.
• To provide clinical leadership.
• To support all staff in the implementation of trauma informed care through using PACE to build relationship, help understand what is behind behaviours and help young people feel safe.
• Offer specialist mental health consultation and advice to all staff.
• Assess and manage ongoing risks as identified during a young person's stay in the home, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with them and their carers.
• To lead on the implementation of care plans
• To be part of recruitment and selection process of staff.
• To be aware of Local Authority and Trust policies and protocols within own registering body and the Trust Strategy/ Local Authority Strategy
• To supervise clinical team members and offer group supervision/reflective practice to all staff.
• To be part of own discipline/CIC group for ongoing support and development.
• To ensure staff within service area are compliant with their regulatory body's regulations.
• To take a lead on audits within the team to ensure clinical staff are undertaking mandatory training as indicated.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

Our Trust continues to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Allied Health Professional, Psychologist, Psychotherapist with current registration (Mental Health, LD, Adult) appropriate to the job role.
• Degree or diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to Master's level equivalent relevant to the care group.
• Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
• Completion of Mentorship Course, ENB equivalent

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 Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Helen Masters and Alison Vasey 

helen.masters@nhs.net