In addition, the Clinical Lead will play a key role in recruitment and selection processes, uphold compliance with regulations, and conduct audits to ensure staff training requirements are met. The position emphasises collaborative care through therapeutic techniques and building strong relationships, thus enhancing the overall wellbeing of the young people in residence. Flexible working options are available, and further details on the role can be accessed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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.
- 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
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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