Clinical Lead

Clinical Lead CSE (Shropshire)

Relevant professions: Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist/Mental Health Practitioner/Occupational Therapist/Mental Health Nurse

Salary: £57,000 – £67,000 (approximately equivalent to NHS Band 8a, dependent on experience)

Location: Cambian Group – Shropshire

Join us in shaping our Therapeutic Service

We are seeking a skilled professional to join our developing Child Sexual Exploitation Service as Clinical Lead for the Shropshire region.

We are currently reviewing and renewing our clinical service provision for child sexual exploitation in residential homes and schools so this is an opportunity to work closely with the National Clinical Lead, and other Clinical Leads nationally, to develop the service and lead a small team consisting of a Psychologist, Mental Health Practitioner and Assistant Psychologist.

We are committed to developing a therapeutic, trauma informed approach and a specialist CSE service that involves working with young people at risk of or with lived experience of sexual exploitation but also a strong focus on developing the knowledge, skills and confidence of residential teams and education staff. All services in the region highly value and welcome clinical support.

This role will allow an experienced professional to further embed the values and principles underpinning trauma informed practice to make a difference to the lives of young people. You will also lead your team in renewing an assessment and intervention approach to develop understanding, support and recovery with regard to sexual exploitation.

The Shropshire region consists of:

11 residential Homes
2 Schools

This role will offer you the opportunity to lead a psychologically informed service for young people who are at risk of, or have lived experience of sexual exploitation. You will lead a team to develop clinicians, residential care and education professionals to view the young people in light of all of their experiences, strengths and difficulties and to offer them hope by building a sense of who they could be in the future.

We are committed to relational practice: to develop understanding of what this means, to improve what we do, how we understand and respond and to prioritise it: Trust First. We understand the complexity of the young person’s experience and strive to make them feel safe, understood and have a sense of belonging. We also take a contextual understanding of ‘risk’ in order to better understand the young person.

If you value relational, trauma informed practice, are keen to support the development of a service for young people at risk of or with lived experience of sexual exploitation and want to make a difference to the lives of the young people in our care with compassion, curiosity and creativity, we would like to hear from you.

About the Role

As Clinical Lead, you will lead a small team working within a specialised Child Sexual Exploitation service.

The role will be varied and rewarding. You will have opportunities to hold a small case load to provide direct work to young people where necessary, and also to lead consultations, provision of reflective practice and develop formulation-based approaches to understanding and interventions. The service is currently in a state of review and renew and therefore there will be opportunities to contribute significantly to the process of service development.

You will:

Lead a small team consisting of a Psychologist, Mental Health Practitioner, Assistant Mental health practitioner and Assistant Psychologist
Contribute to the development of a clinical model and culture of relational, trauma informed, strengths-based practice
Provide line management oversight
Provide supervision

Support the implementation of a clinical model to guide psychological assessment and interventions for young people
Support in the developmental of psychological interventions for young people
Oversee and complete assessments, including specialist structured professional judgment assessments and risk assessments and implementation of recommendations and actions
Lead and deliver team-based formulations and clinical plans
Support the implementation of plans into practice in residential care settings and schools
Work collaboratively with National Clinical Lead and peer regional Clinical Lead to embed the above
Work collaboratively with other professionals from education and care as well as external professionals, families and wider systems and services in connection with the young person

The following experience would be particularly pertinent to this role:

• Experience working with care-experienced children and young people and/or sexual exploitation

• Experience within residential care, CAMHS, inpatient or complex mental health settings

• Confidence supporting young people who present with high levels of distress and risk

• Some Supervision or leadership experience

• Skills in formulation, consultation and multidisciplinary working

• Experience or interest in supervision, reflective practice and service development

• A warm, collaborative and resilient approach to clinical work

Most importantly, we are looking for someone who is passionate about changing the lives of young people by embedding a culture of relational practice in the systems and people surrounding them and developing clinical service provision in a sexual exploitation service.