Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Direct Clinical Work
• To deliver highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients with complex, severe and longstanding mental health difficulties, which frequently involve high risk behaviour, e.g. risk of suicide and self-harm. Clients who are referred to the Service have often either failed to engage with, or benefit from, other mental health services, and can be particularly hard to help.
• To manage a highly complex clinical caseload in accordance with activity expectations agreed with the Service Manager.
• To carry out specialised risk assessments and agree risk management plans with individual clients, and to provide advice on aspects of risk formulation and management to other clinicians and services.
Teaching and Supervision
• To provide clinical supervision to honorary therapists working within the Service.
• To be responsible for the clinical supervision and teaching of trainees, at all levels, including those taking advanced and highly specialist psychotherapy training and postgraduate training in clinical psychology.
• To engage in peer supervision and peer consultation with clinical colleagues within the service.
Consultation and Liaison
• Liaise, as appropriate, with clinicians and managers outside of the Service regarding clinical and service issues.
• To provide clinical consultations for clinicians, including therapists in training, when difficult and challenging issues of assessment, treatment and risk management arise.
Research and Service Development
• To assist in the development and maintenance of a strong research culture in order to encourage the critical evaluation of practice and the participation of clients in research programmes within the Trust.
• To utilise theory, current literature and research to support evidence-based practice in direct clinical work, supervision, teaching and consultations with other clinicians and staff groups.
• To initiate and participate in audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the Service and the Trust to help develop and improve services to patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Doctoral/Masters Degree or equivalent experience/qualification, plus further specialist training research or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy.
Experience
Essential Criteria
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service users with complex needs, including clients with a personality disorder diagnosis.
* Previous experience of delivering time-limited psychological therapy to clients with complex mental health problems.
* Experience in risk assessment, formulation and management particularly important.
Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* In-depth knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one of the specialised psychological therapies offered within the service.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex emotional relational needs; co-occurring conditions etc).
Skills
Essential Criteria
* Skills in providing supervision and consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
Important Information about Working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer. The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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Sponsorship
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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
* Job description and person specification (PDF, 272.4KB)
* Important Candidate information (PDF, 2.5MB)
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