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Following a successful bid the North Mersey Region has been selected as a pilot site to implement the Integrated Care Framework (Community) including...
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Following a successful bid the North Mersey Region has been selected as a pilot site to implement the Integrated Care Framework (Community) including the establishment of Complex Needs Teams in Liverpool and Sefton.
The target young people are those who present with high-risk/harm behaviours and vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties which are persistent, severe and framed by social contexts.
The Framework aims to meet 6 overarching objectives:
The successful applicant will access clinical supervision from a senior clinician in the trust and will have opportunities for ongoing personal and professional development. The service has strong links with our CAMHS and YOS services.
To provide a qualified and specialist service to the neurodevelopmental pathways at Alder Hey. Providing highly specialist assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on the psychological based care of children and families to colleagues in health and other agencies. This work to be undertaken autonomously within the professional guidelines and overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainees and students. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service. To collaboratively identify service priorities and take the lead on agreed elements of service development and delivery.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist clinical service for children/adolescents with neurodevelopmental difficulties and their carers/parents and families. To undertake highly specialist multi-disciplinary, assessments of children suspected of having ASD / ADHD in conjunction with Community Pediatricians, Speech and Language Therapist and other supporting services.
1. To provide highly specialist psychological based assessments of children and families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, adolescents, family members and others involved in children's and young people's
1. To make judgements involving highly complex facts which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological based treatment and/or management of children and young people's mental health problems, based on an appropriate multi-factorial and multi theoretical psychological understanding of the individual and/or family's problems and employing methods based upon current evidence-based practice, across the full range of care
1. To be responsible for undertaking a range of psychological based therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis with individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
Please see job description attached for further details
The target young people are those who present with high-risk/harm behaviours and vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties which are persistent, severe and framed by social contexts.
The Framework aims to meet 6 overarching objectives:
- Improved CYP wellbeing
- Reduction in high-risk behaviours
- Reduced mental health concern
- Organisations are more trauma-informed
- Improved purpose/occupation
- Improved stability of home
The successful applicant will access clinical supervision from a senior clinician in the trust and will have opportunities for ongoing personal and professional development. The service has strong links with our CAMHS and YOS services.
To provide a qualified and specialist service to the neurodevelopmental pathways at Alder Hey. Providing highly specialist assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on the psychological based care of children and families to colleagues in health and other agencies. This work to be undertaken autonomously within the professional guidelines and overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainees and students. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service. To collaboratively identify service priorities and take the lead on agreed elements of service development and delivery.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist clinical service for children/adolescents with neurodevelopmental difficulties and their carers/parents and families. To undertake highly specialist multi-disciplinary, assessments of children suspected of having ASD / ADHD in conjunction with Community Pediatricians, Speech and Language Therapist and other supporting services.
1. To provide highly specialist psychological based assessments of children and families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, adolescents, family members and others involved in children's and young people's
1. To make judgements involving highly complex facts which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological based treatment and/or management of children and young people's mental health problems, based on an appropriate multi-factorial and multi theoretical psychological understanding of the individual and/or family's problems and employing methods based upon current evidence-based practice, across the full range of care
1. To be responsible for undertaking a range of psychological based therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis with individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
Please see job description attached for further details
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