Structured Clinical Management Practitioner
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Stevenage
Structured Clinical Management Practitioner
£36483
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Stevenage
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted today, 23 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 4f5ed3faeae74cda8936d88dcb3a327d
Full Job Description
- 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.
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 importance on supporting all our therapists to provide great care, with an emphasis placed on maintaining and developing skills and regular supervision 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., - Qualification and continuing registration in one of the core mental health professions (e.g. psychiatric nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or graduate worker with substantial other relevant experience and with demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field.
- Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g. NMC or HCPC; for Graduate Workers registration with BPS.
- Completion of SCM Training (Short course) or willingness and aptitude to train., Experience of assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, adult mental health and in patient settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks
- Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures
- Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including adults with personality disorders.
- Experience of working in a community mental health setting
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, 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