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Job overview
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
1. Provide Structured Clinical Management in line with the Trust pathway and standard operating procedure.
2. Conduct specialist personality disorder assessments.
3. Facilitate SCM groups and provide SCM supervisions.
4. Attend weekly supervision and provide/attend training as required.
5. Demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users and their carers.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main 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 co-facilitate a SCM group; if not running a group, 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 the clients' pathway through the system, including in-reach work on the ward.
7. Liaise with ward staff and Home Treatment Team during admissions and maintain contact with service users throughout their 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. Provide short-term goal-focused support/input to cases on the pathway.
13. Liaise with other professionals to establish continuity of care across the service.
14. Carry out assessments as per Patient Owned Database and assign patients to care clusters within the framework of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales Payment by Results (HoNOS and PBR).
15. Provide consultation and training in personality disorder to other team members as required.
16. Agree to undertake additional training when required to facilitate the role.
MANAGERIAL
1. Provide supervision for staff.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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.
Desirable criteria
* Further training in Personality Disorder.
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
* 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.
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience of delivering Psychological Interventions to people with Personality Disorder.
* Experience of Care Coordination.
* Experience of Community Mental Health Care.
Values
Essential criteria
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change-oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
* Good verbal/written communication skills and competent IT 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.
Desirable criteria
* To be 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.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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