Job overview
Are you looking for an exciting, demanding and rewarding new challenge?
The post of Senior Practitioner for Complex Emotional and Relational Needs, based at Prescott House in Little Hulton but working across GMMH Salford Division, is now vacant.
The role is varied, involving providing psychological interventions (SCM/MBT) in a group and 1:1 setting, managing a small caseload of Adults with a diagnosis of Complex Emotional and Relational Needs, as well as providing input to the team to support, assess and manage the wider team caseload, and supporting the wider leadership of the team.
The post will be part of the trust psychological health hub, you will be working closely with psychology colleagues to provide the psychological pathway across the Salford division, expanding our non-pharmacological offer to the client group.
The Practitioner will be working in a busy and dynamic multi disciplinary service, in a supportive team whose focus is recovery for service users, development and growth of staff, encouraging ongoing learning and individual and service development.
You will be supported by an established and cohesive CMHT and a key part of the trust transformation planning and action.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to all staff and the multi-agency team.
2. Act as a Care Co-ordinator for a caseload of up to 12 highly complex cases .
3. Carry out and develop detailed assessments and formulations in the wider team or service .
4. Contribute to the development of and provide therapeutic interventions via relevant clinical pathways, engage with any relevant additional training which supports the role. These interventions may include Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) among others
5. Provide specific training to the wider team/services as appropriate.
6. Contribute to, deliver and facilitate therapeutic evidence based interventions
7. Collaborate and liaise with other specialist clinicians working with complex emotional and relational needs across the district in developing services that deliver optimum evidence-based care for people.
8. Develop and contribute to evaluation and audit
9. Provide support and specialist assessment/formulation .
10. Deliver and facilitate a reflective practice supervision group in the CMHT.
11. Contribute to the delivery of family interventions for complex emotional and relational needs in the team / locality.
12. Lead on specialised intensive clinical supervision in the locality team for clinicians working with service users presenting with complex emotional and relational needs.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
13. Registered Mental Health Nurse, Psychological Therapist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or similar professional qualification
14. Post graduate experience or post qualification education relation to Complex Emotional and Relational Needs
15. Either qualified in, or willing to train in the delivery of therapeutic interventions such as SCM/MBT
Desirable criteria
16. Additional qualifications in psychological interventions eg. DBT skills, SCM, MBT
17. Accredited status as an SCM and/or MBT practitioner
Experience
Essential criteria
18. Post registration experience of working in multi-disciplinary in CMHT/Older adult setting or other relevant clinical settings and liaising with colleagues across services.
19. Demonstrable post-qualification experience of working with complex mental health difficulties, including problems associated with complex emotional and relational needs, and severe depression, anxiety, co-morbid substance misuse and trauma.
20. Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision and support to others with respect to their clinical work.
21. Demonstrable experience of managing risk and developing plans to support individuals and systems to do so.
Desirable criteria
22. Experience of participating in audit, service evaluation and research.
23. Experience of participating in the delivery of group interventions or providing group supervision / reflection
24. Ability to demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and development.
25. Experience of developing clinical pathways and services
26. Experience of providing training to colleagues and others
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
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.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
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Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.