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 services users with CEN offering assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention.
Main duties of the job
The role will require the post holder to:
· Collaboratively working 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.
· Formulate and implement appropriate SCM treatment plans with the support of colleagues in the SCM Pathway
· Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service
· Offer consultation and support to Core Team colleagues within an SCM framework
· 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
· To 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 to 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
· To be able to 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 fall 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 could you kindly 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 Post graduate masters’ level training as a Clinical Associate in Psychology.
* •Registration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, BPS)
* •Addition 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 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 services users presenting difficulties and risk utilising psychological theory.
* •Ability to work collaboratively and with services 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 committed 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 relationship 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 situation 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.
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