Senior Structured Clinical Management practitioner / supervisor
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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through 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 proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We are excited to be advertising for a Senior Clinician / Practitioner / Supervisor (0.4 WTE) to supervise and oversee Structured Clinical Management (SCM) interventions with adult service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) in Haringey.
This role offers the opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health practitioner to further develop their skills in supervising clinicians in the delivery of SCM interventions with this client group including Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD.
The post holder will work alongside other SCM practitioners and practitioner psychological therapists to implement SCM. Along with supervising, the postholder will hold a small caseload of SCM clients and will contribute an exciting service development extending core offer for this client group.
The successful candidate will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Associate Psychologist) with additional training/undertaking training in SCM and an interest in complex PTSD and complex trauma.
Within the role, you will have access to SCM training and regular supervision (e.g. group and/or individual). You will provide 1:1 and group interventions to service users as part of the multidisciplinary team. You will also take a lead role in supporting the supervision and oversight of SCM practitioners working into the specialist Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD pathways, both pathways embedded within the Complex Emotional Needs team.
Main duties of the job
You will provide 1:1 and group interventions to service users with Complex Emotional Needs including Personality Disorder and cPTSD as part of the multidisciplinary team. You will also take a lead role in supporting the supervision and oversight of SCM practitioners working into the specialist Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD pathways, both pathways embedded within the Complex Emotional Needs team.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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
Relationships/Communications
The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.
Internal Relationships
Colleagues and Co- workers within the three pathways within the Complex Emotional Needs team (Personality Disorder, cPTSD, Mood, Anxiety and Personality)
Colleagues within other Boroughwide services and the core teams.
External Relationships
External Agencies within service user network, eg. GP, housing, social care, VSE.
Key Responsibilities
Financial responsibility
N/A
Responsibility for Human Resources
Alongside other SCM practitioners to support training of SCM when required.
Responsibility for Administration
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the regulating body and Organisation.
Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
Alongside others to maintain digital systems related to the smooth running of SCM.
Clinical Responsibilities
To use a high level of interpersonal skills, reasoning and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship with people with complex emotional difficulties managing barriers to communication.
To provide SCM supervision to clinicians individually and in groups
To provide in house SCM training
To collaborate with the service user to enable the individual to be a partner in care.
To undertake SCM assessment to include, mental health and risk assessments, psychological formulation and care planning.
To provide SCM in both 1-1 sessions and group sessions in conjunction with other practitioners
To act as a named worker for the service users allocated to your care practising without direct supervision and with a degree of autonomy.
To make onward referrals and signpost to other services including VCSE and neighbourhood services to enable wrap around, holistic support for service users undergoing treatment to meet a broad range of need.
To participate in MDT discussions
To liaise with and develop relationships with other agencies involved in the service users care to ensure consistent multi agency approach and maintain effective communication.
Provide advice and guidance to other members of the team in relation to SCM.
To attend and participate in SCM supervision and individual clinical supervision.
To participate in other clinical duties as appropriate.
Operational Responsibilities
Contribute to the operations within the team
Policy / Service Development
N/A
Research And Development
• Alongside other SCM practitioners and under supervision to monitor, evaluate and modify all individual and group-work interventions/treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
• To participate in data collection, audit and research as required
General
All staff are responsible for the continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes.
The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trust's Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures.
Personal Development
All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following year's departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and knowledge and skills competency framework.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN/ Occupational Therapy/Social work/ Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate/BCP, BACP, UKCP registered Psychotherapist
- Undertaking / have undertaken a qualification in SCM
- Experience of supervising
- Interest / willingness to pursue SCM supervisor training / accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/ Mentorship qualification
- SCM supervisor training
- Completion of training in one or more models of psychological therapies for individuals with complex emotional needs for example SCM, MBT, Schema Therapy or CAT
- Supervisor accreditation achieved or in process for example in SCM or MBT or other relevant psychological models
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet needs of clients.
- Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service.
- Ability to undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems
- Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
- Ability to teach staff and provide advice and support to other agencies / professionals.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a highly emotive and unpredictable environment
- Capacity to work collaboratively in a therapeutic and multi-professional environment within and outside the NHS
- To be able to assess the mental state and risk for a wide range of patients with mental health problems and specifically for patients with personality disorder
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more psychological models for working with service users with complex emotional needs for example, SCM, MBT, schema therapy or CAT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
- Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a lead clinician and role model.
- Experience of effective communication with other key stakeholders at a variety of levels.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a highly emotive and unpredictable environment
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Capacity to work calmly and thoughtfully when addressing traumatic psychological issues, demonstrating an awareness of the sensitivity and unpredictability of Personality Disorder patients, and a capacity to tolerate the strong emotions evoked by such work
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Capacity to manage frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotive situations and disclosures
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of and interest in working with complex PTSD and complex trauma
- Interest in supporting core CMHTS and other teams to develop skills/knowledge in working with complex emotional needs including cPTSD
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to work within multidisciplinary team and autonomously
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
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.
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
- JD senior SCM practitioner post (PDF, 208.4KB)
- Functional Requirements (PDF, 536.5KB)