About the Position: This position created to strengthen the quality of care delivered to children who have experienced complex trauma, abuse and damaged attachment. It will enable our staff teams to provide more consistent and deeper care and therapies for all children, as well as target particular children with highly complex needs and provide them with more specialised clinical assessment and interventions. The person will also play a role in training all staff around general approaches to traumatised children and help them gain confidence in, for example, de-escalation techniques, so that children receive consistent care and messaging 24/7. It will ensure that our social work, case managers and counsellor/therapist staff have clinical supervision and debriefing so that we can improve standards of care and support to all clients, as well as help to prevent our staff experiencing secondary trauma.
Role Responsibilities:
Qualifications: Master degree in Clinical Psychology
Experience: 5 years experience working with traumatized, abused and/or exploited children and at least 3 years experience of senior clinical supervision at NGO context
Essential Skills:
1. Ability to write accurate, concise and informative reports in a high standard of English
2. Skills in participatory training techniques to a range of professional/non-professional staff
3. Able to maintain clinical and staff confidentiality whilst also ensuring child protection issues are professionally managed and escalated as appropriate
4. Strong skills in working within teams, in groups and individually
5. Ability to be organized, meet deadlines,
6. Ability to work within a team