Specialist Mental Health Therapist - STARS

Job overview

To be responsible for providing high quality therapeutic support and advice to children and young people, parents and families who present with a range of mental health and emotional needs in relation to the child’s experience of sexual trauma.

Main duties of the job

To deliver therapeutic support and advice to children, young people and families affected by sexual trauma.

To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist support in relation to children, young people and families referred to STARS (Sexual Trauma, Assessment, Recovery and Support Service).

To offer therapeutic sessions to a child or young people, on a group, family or individual basis, including pre-trial support and to review progress of the support provided on a regular basis. This can include evening groups for young people.

To offer support and advice to the carers of children and young people affected by sexual trauma. This may include individual, group or family work.

To undertake ongoing evaluation of the outcome of the interventions provided.

To be committed to providing a high quality child focused service for children and young people affected by sexual trauma, highlighting and respecting the wishes of the child or young person.

To be able to support the service with providing clinical supervision to others, where appropriate.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work alongside other professionals (e.g. schools, other mental health support teams, children's services, Surrey SARC and child protection agencies) in planning how best to support a child and the child's family.

To assist in STARS training events and to offer highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals working with children and families who have been affected by childhood sexual trauma.

To refer people to other services where appropriate (e.g. school counsellor, ACT, Community Mental Health Teams, Youth Services)

To ensure complex and sensitive information is managed appropriate.

To communicate in a professional and sensitive manner with other agencies, with a view to maintaining the appropriate level of confidentiality.

To have an expert awareness of safeguarding issues and to be clear about roles and responsibilities to report, respond to and share information in relation to safeguarding.

To promote early intervention and active engagement amongst the network, being an ambassador for mental wellbeing and providing expertise in emotional and mental health across the system in order to effect better outcomes for Children and young people.

To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload of children and adolescents with emotional well-being issues and more complex emerging mental health issues often involving additional problem areas, such as self-harming, depression, trauma and attachment issues.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.