Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

+ To provide clinical assessment and intervention to service users with Personality Disorders, to the local community team, quadrant based service using a Structured Clinical Management Model.
+ To participate and contribute in the Structured Clinical Management Model including group programme.
+ To participate in and contribute to the Personality Disorder Pathway supervision group.
+ To care coordinate / work as named worker for clients on caseload.
+ To maintain training and skills in working with this group, and to participate in trust training programme.
+ All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity., + Provide standardised assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health needs and with the diagnosis of personality disorder.
+ Provide Structure Clinical Management for Service Users on caseload and to support the wider Structured Clinical Management programme.
+ To attend peer consult and supervision as part of maintaining rigorous clinical standards.
+ The post-holder will work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues as part of this programme.
+ To maintain training and skills in working with this group, and to participate in trust training programme., importance on supporting all our therapists to provide great care, with an emphasis placed on maintaining and developing skills and regular supervision, HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
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We are looking for a number of new multi-disciplinary staff who share our passion and commitment to work with individuals with Personality disorder to improve their wellbeing and achieve great outcomes together. We now have vacancies for band 5 workers to join us and offer structured clinical management. Structured Clinical Management is a proven approach for working with people diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorders. Training will be provided, and this offers an exciting opportunity to join an established group of therapists to offer a quadrant wide therapy service within the community mental health team, as well as joining the wider network of therapists across the trust. The service works to meet the needs of service users who are experiencing significant difficulties with emotional instability and working within the local multi-disciplinary community teams. We pride ourselves on the quality of the service that we offer and place, This post would suit someone with a core mental health qualification and registration (including those recently qualified in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or other appropriately registered therapists - see person spec for details) or a psychology graduate (eligible for BPS registration) with more than 2 years' experience in community mental health settings. The successful applicants will also have an interest in working collaboratively with service users to develop their skills to improve their ability to tolerate and manage strong emotion. It would suit someone who loves working as part of a team and alongside multidisciplinary colleagues. Ideally we are looking for someone with experience of working with this service user group in any care setting, or someone who has transferable skills. The role will be interesting and varied, and the worker will have an opportunity to contribute to our group therapies programme for this group. There are
also excellent opportunities to progress and undertake further training to progress. The post will be based out of one of the community teams, but the ability to work flexibly as the needs of the service demands will be essential. The post holder would expect some travel within their working week.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.