Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be 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
The SCM Practitioner role offers the opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health practitioner to further develop their skills in offering an evidenced-based intervention, Structured Clinical Management (SCM), for service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) in the Core Teams in Barnet and Enfield. The post holder will work alongside another SCM Practitioner, the Senior SCM Practitioner, and colleagues in the Core Team to provide SCM assessment, formulation, group, and individual intervention to a caseload of service users. You will have access to SCM training and receive regular group and individual supervision.
The successful candidate, who will be joining this new pathway, will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Associate Psychologist). Additional training in SCM, DBT, or MBT would be desirable. In addition, the ideal candidate will have worked with service users with CEN offering assessment, formulation, and therapeutic intervention.
Main duties of the job
The role will require the post holder to:
1. Collaboratively work 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.
2. Formulate and implement appropriate SCM treatment plans with the support of colleagues in the SCM Pathway.
3. Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service.
4. Offer consultation and support to Core Team colleagues within an SCM framework.
5. 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.
6. 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 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.
7. 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 falls 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 refer to the attached job description and person specification document for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
* A qualification in a mental health or social care (nursing, allied health professional, social work) OR Postgraduate master's level training as a Clinical Associate in Psychology.
* Registration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, BPS).
* Additional training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM)/ Dialectical Behaviour Therapy/ Mentalisation Based Therapy.
Desirable criteria
* Accredited as an SCM Practitioner.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
* Strong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in a trauma-informed way.
* Evidence of ability to provide specialist mental health assessment and risk assessment/ management and be accountable for decision-making.
* Ability to formulate a service user's presenting difficulties and risk utilizing psychological theory.
* Ability to work collaboratively and with service users in 1-1 and in group settings.
* Evidence of ability to manage a complex caseload without direct supervision.
* Ability to communicate effectively and provide coherent reports and documentation according to Trust documentation standards.
* Ability to provide therapeutic interventions for this client group.
Desirable criteria
* A demonstrated ability to facilitate group intervention.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Demonstrable experience of working with service users with personality disorder.
* Experience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self-harm.
* Significant post-registration experience working in a mental health service.
* Proven experience of completing mental health assessments, risk assessments, and risk management plans without direct supervision.
* 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.
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience of working to a model of SCM.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* A commitment to improving the lives of people with Complex Emotional Needs.
* Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
* Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
* Ability to demonstrate the North London Partnership Values.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations 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, e.g., 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 cost 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
* Band 6 - SCM Practitioner (PDF, 448.4KB)
* Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 258.0KB)
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