Senior Structured Clinical Management Practitioner (Supervisor)

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Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Senior Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to establish and oversee the provision of evidenced-based Structured Clinical Management (SCM) for service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) within the Barnet and Enfield Core Teams. You will work with SCM Practitioners and alongside other mental health practitioners in the Core teams providing SCM assessments, formulations, and group and individual interventions.

As well as receiving your regular supervision from the specialist Complex Emotional Needs (PD) Pathway, you will also offer group and individual supervision to colleagues based in the SCM pathway as well as the wider Core Team.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and experienced qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. Psychologist, RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Psychotherapist) with additional training in SCM. In addition, the ideal candidate will have worked with services users with CEN offering assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention.

Main duties of the job

The role will require the post holder to:
• Collaboratively working alongside Core Team Key workers to support identification and undertake assessment of emotional and psychological needs of patients within the Core Teams who have a confirmed or suspected personality disorder diagnosis and personality disorder traits which may not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
• Formulate and implement appropriate SCM treatment plans
• Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service
• Offer consultation and support to Core Team colleagues within an SCM framework
• Offer SCM supervision to the Practitioners in the pathways and other colleagues working with an SCM model.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures in close collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients within the formal therapy setting as well as on the telephone or occasionally on domiciliary visits, and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects
• To be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist (or accreditation pending if you are a trainee clinical or counselling psychologist due for qualification in September 2024)

Desirable criteria

• Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/ supervision
• Working towards or completion of SCM Supervisor status
• Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Basic training
• Basic Training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• Basic Training Certificate in Structured Clinical Management or willingness to engage in SCM training

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Strong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
• Minimum of two years' experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of supervising professionals from different clinical backgrounds other than own core profession.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, both individually and in an organisational context.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body
• Degree level research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields.
• Experience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in setting up and running groups
• Enthusiasm about evidence-based practice and about using patient feedback as well as team performance data to develop service as best suited for the needs of our patient population.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of Personality Disorder
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
• Ability to demonstrate the North London Partnership Values

Desirable criteria

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
• Desire to take up leadership in service development of psychological treatment services

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• To be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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

• Job Desctiption (PDF, 448.4KB)
• Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 258.0KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)