Main area Personality Disorder/ Complex Emotional Needs Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 455-NLFT-0480
Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chase Farm Hospital Town London Salary £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 03/12/2025 23:59
Structured Clinical Management Supervisor-practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
The SCM Supervisor- Practitioner Psychologist role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced or newly qualified practitioner psychologist who has a strong interest in working with service users with Complex Emotional Needs. You will work alongside other SCM practitioners to implement SCM within the Core teams across Enfield and Haringey. The role offers the opportunity for direct clinical work including assessment, formulation and treatment in both group and individual settings. A key part of the role is to lead on the implementation of SCM within Enfield and Haringey, offering support and supervision to SCM Practitioners. The role also has scope for training and consultation to other healthcare professionals.
The ideal candidate will have an enthusiasm for working with a CEN population using a structured evidenced based approach. They will enjoy working within a team, whilst also being able to work independently. The candidate will be required to travel between St Anne’s Hospital (Haringey) and Chase Farm Hospital (Enfield).
The organisation is committed to supporting the right candidate to both develop skills in SCM, supervisor and CPD within the wider CEN Pathway. You will have access to SCM training, regular group and individual supervision.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
-Direct clinical work with CEN population across Enfield and Haringey. To include assessment, formulation, treatment both individual and group.
-Risk assessment and management within the SCM pathway
Supervision/Teaching/consultation
-Supporting and directly supervising SCM Practitioners within Enfield and Haringey
-Supporting the wider MDT in relation to CEN population, to include consultation and training.
-Audit and evaluation of SCM across Enfield and Haringey
-With the support of the Head of CEN and Senior leads across the Enfield and Haringey to lead on the implementation of SCM within core teams
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
* We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
* With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
* We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
* We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
* We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
* We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
* NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
* Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
* We Are Kind
* We Are Respectful
* We Work Together
* We Keep Things Simple
* We Empower
* We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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
Clinical Responsibilities
To use a high level of interpersonal skills, reasoning and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship with people with complex emotional difficulties managing barriers to communication.
To provide SCM supervision to clinicians individually and in groups
To collaborate with the service user to enable the individual to be a partner in care.
To undertake SCM assessment to include, mental health and risk assessments, psychological formulation and care planning.
To provide SCM in both 1:1 sessions and group sessions in conjunction with other practitioners
To act as a named worker for the service users allocated to your care practising without direct supervision and with a degree of autonomy.
To make onward referrals and signpost to other services including VCSE and neighbourhood services to enable wrap around, holistic support for service users undergoing treatment to meet a broad range of need.
To participate in MDT discussions
To liaise with and develop relationships with other agencies involved in the service users care to ensure consistent multi agency approach and maintain effective communication.
Provide advice and guidance to other members of the team/s in relation to SCM.
To attend and participate in SCM supervision and individual clinical supervision.
To participate in other clinical duties as appropriate
Research And Development
• Alongside other SCM practitioners and under supervision to monitor, evaluate and modify all individual and group-work interventions/treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
• To participate in data collection, audit and research as required
Responsibility for Administration
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the regulating body and Organisation
Person specification
Qualifications
* Practitioner Psychologist registered with the HCPC
* An understanding of the core components of SCM
* A commitment to pursue SCM supervisor training and accreditation
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder’s professional body
* Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/ supervision
* Undertaken accredited training in SCM
* Completion of training in one or more models of psychological therapies for individuals with complex emotional needs for example MBT, DBT
* Supervisor accreditation achieved or in process for example in SCM or MBT or other relevant psychological models
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems, specifically with service users who’s difficulties can be understood as Personality Disorder.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Ability to assess, care plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet needs of clients.
* 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.
* Skills in running and setting up therapeutic groups
* Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a highly emotive and unpredictable environment
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways
* Experience of supervising healthcare staff
* Knowledge and experience of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
* Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more psychological models for working with service users with complex emotional needs for example, SCM, MBT or DBT
Personal Qualities
* Strong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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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.
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