Job: Mental Health Practitioner – Child Sexual Exploitation/Trauma Service
Salary: £37-£42,000 depending on experience
Location: Yorkshire

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly team. You will be working in the Yorkshire area with children’s residential homes and a school to support and care for young people at risk of, or with lived experience of child sexual exploitation.  You will have colleagues from other regions in the country (Mental Health Practitioners, Psychologists, Counsellors).

The successful candidate will be a member of an integrated residential Children’s Service to support the emotional wellbeing, mental health and placement stability of looked after young people who have experienced significant adverse childhood experiences and sexual exploitation.

Supporting our teams across residential homes, you’ll will be providing a combined clinical consultative and direct therapeutic service for Looked After young people placed in community residential settings.  This includes assessing and identifying young people’s needs, strengths and risks.  You will also support residential and education professionals via consultation, supervision and training to embed trauma informed, relational practice.  You will also be responsible for provision of direct therapeutic work with young people where appropriate.

About us
The Cambian Group, part of the CareTech family of companies, is one of the largest providers of specialist education and care services for children and young people in the UK, delivering across Special Education Schools and Colleges, Residential Care Homes and a Therapeutic Fostering Services.

Candidate Profile
To be successful within this role you will need to have experience in:

• Working with Looked After Children and/or young people presenting with a range of clinical needs.
• Knowledge of theory and practice of therapeutic interventions with children and young people.
• Assessment, intervention and management of a range of mental health needs including trauma.
• Partnership working supporting agreed placement objectives, care planning and progression including regular clinical reporting and routine outcome measures

Essential:

• Registered with the relevant professional (HCPC, NMC, SWE, BACP, BABCP)
• Mental Health background and/or CAMHS experience
• Relevant qualifications to allow you to offer children therapy, when required
• Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills
• Consultation and formulation skills
• Have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills

In return we offer:

• Full support from a multidisciplinary team
• Regular clinical supervision
• Meetings and peer support
• Development opportunities
• Internal/external training on new initiatives

We are an equal opportunities employer.