Job summary
Location: Shropshire
Contract: Full Time (Part time considered)
Role Type: Permanent
Working hours per week: 40
Salary: £37-£42,000 depending on experience
Psychotherapist/Social Worker /Family Therapist/RMN/OT

Main duties of the job
Job: Mental Health Practitioner Child Sexual Exploitation/Trauma Service
Salary: £37-£42,000 depending on experience
Location: Shropshire

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly team. You will be working within an existing multi-disciplinary team, which consists mental health practitioners, psychologists education professionals and operational professionals.

About us
Supporting our teams across residential homes, you'll 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 and meeting them through consultation, supervision and training for residential and care staff, care planning and management in partnership with the team as well as direct therapeutic work.

Job responsibilities
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 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 and meeting them through consultation, supervision and training for residential and care staff, care planning and management in partnership with the team as well as direct therapeutic work.

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 severity and 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

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.