Senior Clinical Practitioner - Waterview Team

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Job Description, please see the Job Description attachment

Clinical Responsibilities

1. To undertake assessments of clients, identifying specific personality traits, emotional ability of service user to use groups and their capacit to work towards shared treatment goals.
2. Facilitate and co-facilitate a range of therapy groups including Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Based Treatment (DBT).
3. To act as Lead Professional for an identified number of service users with severe personality disorder, establishing and maintaining a long-term supportive relationship.
4. To conduct joint home visits, for engagement purposes or emergency assessments, as clinically indicated.
5. To initiate and carry through safeguarding alerts where appropriate.
6. To work with service users within intimate and emotionally intense individual and group sessions, where their behaviour may be unpredictable and challenging.
7. To undertake risk assessments and manage risk as part of the treatment process to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all when faced with threats of verbal abuse, deliberate self-harm and violence to self and/or others.
8. To assess the needs of carers, and work with them to best support the service user, where consent is given/appropriate.

The service, which has a long history and is the only such service within the Trust, has undergone exciting developments in the past 24 months. We are proud of the work we do in collaboration with our service users and this is highlighted no more so than the success of our service user forum, where all changes and innovations are discussed with our service users.

The service also has a track record of involvement in clinical research and links with the Division of Psychiatry at Imperial College London, including recently hosting a feasibility study for Structured Psychological Support (SPS).

If you want to be part of our exciting team then get in touch!

For more information visit our dedicated website;

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/services/mental-health-services/adult-and-older-...

Interviews TBC

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• Relevant core professional qualification and registration (e.g. Nursing, Occupational therapy, Social work, Psychology, Psychotherapy).
• Training / knowledge of therapies relevant to Personality Disorder, i.e. Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) and/Or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and application to practice.

Desirable criteria

• Substantial postgraduate training and/or qualifications to diploma level relevant to personality disorder or models of practice.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job

Essential criteria

• Post (core profession) qualification experience in mental health including managing a caseload under Lead Professional Care
• Experience of working therapeutically with people with personality disorder
• Experience of conducting psychologically informed assessment and compiling reports.
• Ability and experience in risk assessment and crisis management.
• Experience of co-facilitating groups

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a dedicated personality disorder service

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Senior Clinical Practitioner JD (PDF, 520.3KB)
• Senior Clinical Practitioner PS (PDF, 48.7KB)
• CNWL Staff Networks (PDF, 320.0KB)
• CNWL Values (PDF, 182.9KB)
• CNWL Reward and Wellbeing Handbook 2020 (PDF, 1.1MB)