Senior Jigsaw Clinician - Balbriggan/Swords

POSITION SUMMARY:

Senior Jigsaw Clinicians offer short-term therapeutic supports to young people aged 12-25 years who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This usually involves 1:1 work with the young person and sometimes it can include other family members as well. Our senior clinicians come from diverse professional backgrounds encompassing qualifications in social work occupational therapy mental health nursing clinical/counselling/educational psychology and psychotherapy and they work as part of transdisciplinary teams based at one of our 15 services across the country. All of our clinicians share the same scope of practice to support the goals of our young people in a collaborative respectful and evidence-informed manner while drawing on their own unique training experience and skills. As senior members of the clinical team Senior Jigsaw Clinicians assume leadership responsibilities as appropriate and work closely with the Clinical Manager in ensuring safe effective high quality service provision. Additionally senior clinicians are involved in health promotion youth engagement service development and advocacy. All of our senior clinicians benefit from frequent and supportive clinical supervision alongside a comprehensive programme of continuing professional development.

This is a full time permanent position based in our North Fingal (Balbriggan/Swords) Service.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To undertake initial mental health assessments with young people focusing on both strengths and difficulties.
• To provide evidence informed brief therapeutic interventions to young people.
• To conduct risk assessments and implement risk management plans as appropriate.
• To deputise for the Clinical Manager in their absence and/or as required.
• To provide clinical consultation/guidance and where required clinical supervision to Jigsaw Clinicians.
• To assume leadership responsibilities as required e.g. chair case management meetings facilitate group supervision review and coordinate referrals provide support and guidance to clinicians etc.
• To actively participate in clinical supervision and line management meetings.
• To work in accordance with Jigsaw Policies Procedures and Guidelines.
• To participate in case management meetings team meetings and other meetings as deemed necessary.
• To liaise and consult with other professionals in supporting the mental health of young people attending Jigsaw.
• To fulfil obligations as per the Children First Act 2015 and comply with the Jigsaw Child Protection and Welfare policy.
• To maintain accurate confidential records of practice using the Jigsaw Data System and to cooperate with reporting requirements as per the Jigsaw Record Keeping Policy.
• To comply with responsibilities under the Data Protection Acts& 2018 (GDPR).
• To share information with the Jigsaw Clinical Manager Service Manager Jigsaw team and other stakeholders as appropriate in accordance with good practice.
• To contribute to research audit and evaluation of the service as required.
• To maintain professional and personal boundaries.
• To engage in outreach work as required.
• To demonstrate an open and flexible attitude to work at all times.
• Additional responsibilities reflective of the senior nature of this post may be agreed by the Clinical Manager and Service Manager.

• The closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 26th September.
• Application is by online application form only & CVs will not be accepted. Please complete all fields of the application form.Incomplete application forms will not be considered..
• The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.
• Jigsaw is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex disability age gender expression or sexual orientation gender identity ethnic or national origin marital or civil partnership status or culture. Jigsaw is committed where possible to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and request reasonable accommodation contact
• For applicants who gained their qualification/s outside of the Republic of Ireland evidence must be provided at the time of application that their qualification/s have been validated by the Irish Department of Health.
• Jigsaw is a registered charity. Our charity (revenue) number is CHY 17439. Our Registered Charity number is

• This role will in line with service opening times will involve at least one late evening per week and may from time to time require weekend work.
• All Jigsaw staff members are required to obtain Garda clearance as a condition of their initial and continued employment.
• Jigsaw cannot employ any former public sector employees who have left their post within the last 5 years due to an exit
  scheme including but not limited to the voluntary early retirement or voluntary redundancy schemes.
• Jigsaw is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
• All documentation received by Jigsaw will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; 2018). The information will only be used by Jigsaw in the processing of job applications and for ongoing administrative purposes with job candidates.