Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Practitioner
An exciting opportunity has arisen in St Helens Recovery team for a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Practitioner to join our Relational and Emotional Strengths pathway team. SCM is an evidence-based treatment for people who meet criteria for a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder.
You will be involved in the assessment and treatment of clients with complex emotional and relational needs, providing individual and group-based interventions in a structured, consistent, coherent and reliable way and will work on agreed goals over a discrete period of time.
You will hold your own caseload and deliver treatment within a psychological framework that is effective in treating these kinds of difficulties.
You will receive training and supervision in SCM and will be required to work therapeutically to aid in the recovery of service users within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
To provide Structured Clinical Management in line with the Trust pathway and standard operating procedure, to provide specialist personality disorder assessments, to facilitate SCM groups and provide SCM supervisions, attend weekly supervision and provide/attend training as required.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers.
Job responsibilities
CLINICAL
1. Undertake personality disorder assessments and develop Living Life Well Crisis Care Plans.
2. Maintain a caseload of 12 SCM clients (for assessment, socialisation or full programme) and also co-facilitate a SCM group if not running a group, then maintain a caseload of 15 clients.
3. Attend weekly SCM supervision meetings.
4. Attend training programmes as required.
5. Support and provide training to other staff.
6. Manage clients' pathways through the system, including in-reach work on the ward.
7. During admissions, liaise with ward staff and Home Treatment Team and remain in contact with service user throughout involvement with these services.
8. Facilitate a planned discharge and organise an MDT meeting if necessary.
9. Advocate for clients with a personality disorder.
10. Implement the SCM treatment programme for borderline personality disorder.
11. Co-facilitate weekly SCM group meetings (90 minutes).
12. Act as named practitioner offering a transition period from services for 6 months for clients who have completed 12 months of SCM.
13. Work in accordance with the standard operating procedure for cluster 8.
14. Formulate and implement appropriate treatment plans and provide Structured Clinical Management.
15. Provide short-term goal-focused support/input to cases on the pathway.
16. Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service.
17. Ensure that continuity of care is maintained and support services to manage transitions between services in line with NICE guidance.
18. Carry out assessments as per Patient Owned Database and assign patients to care clusters within the framework of HoNOS and PBR.
19. Provide consultation and training in personality disorder to other team members as required.
20. Demonstrate an ability to formulate clients' mental health needs.
21. Agree to undertake additional training when required to facilitate role.
22. Support the adherence of the personality disorder pathway.
MANAGERIAL
1. Provide supervision for staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of continuing professional development with measurable post qualification and further training in Personality Disorder.
* Assistant Psychologists would be considered for this position with an appropriate post-graduate degree and relevant experience.
* Further training in Personality Disorder.
Knowledge / Experience
* Able to demonstrate an understanding of the Personality Disorder Pathway model.
* Working experience of Inpatient/Outpatient settings.
* Experience of formulating risk assessments.
* Experience of working with mental health services (or able to demonstrate transferable skills).
* A working knowledge of NICE Guidance protocols.
* A clear understanding of complex needs support issues such as homelessness, substance misuse and offending.
* Knowledge of safeguarding protocols.
* Knowledge and understanding of how to deal with challenging individuals.
* Previous experience of delivering Psychological Interventions to people with Personality Disorder.
* Experience of Care Coordination.
* Experience of Community Mental Health Care.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities.
* Able to prioritise and organise workload.
* Ability to motivate others.
* Ability to manage risk.
* Demonstrate an ability to maintain clear boundaries.
* Demonstration of psychological awareness of others' strengths and weaknesses.
* Demonstration of an ability to have flexibility in their coping style and an awareness to see problems from a different perspective.
* Able to chair meetings.
* Leadership skills; evidence of clinical leadership in a particular domain, ideally personality disorder to demonstrate the ability to tolerate and manage conflict.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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