Job summary

Are you passionate about getting it right for people who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis?

Do you want to be part of a specialist service to support people experiencing psychosis for the first time?

Do you want to be part of a Multidisciplinary team with integral Health, psychological therapies, Social Care and Psychiatry expertise?

We are looking to recruit staff who want to be fundamental in the success of an early intervention in psychosis service In Hertfordshire, committed to delivering personalized and meaningful care.

PATH provide Early Intervention in Psychosis services to people within Hertfordshire between the ages of 16 and 65. It is a multidisciplinary community mental health service that provides treatment and support to people already experiencing psychosis for the first time. The pathway is three years in duration. The defining characteristic of the service is its strong ethos of hope and whole-team commitment to enabling recovery through the provision of individually tailored, evidence-based interventions and support to service users and their families / carers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join this specialist service as a qualified Mental health and wellbeing practitioner working alongside a multi-disciplinary team. As part of an MDT, the candidate will work collaboratively in the provision of an excellent, service-user and carer focused service.

Main duties of the job

Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation.

To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

To plan and deliver Family Interventions for psychosis (FIp), in line with best practice.

To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as named worker, for a caseload of service users to support and monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:

Behavioural activation and graded exposure

Teaching problem-solving skills

Improving sleep

Recognising and managing emotions

Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

Building confidence

Medication support

To be responsive to service users' needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service user's wishes.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Job description

Job responsibilities

Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation.

To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

To plan and deliver Family Interventions for psychosis (FIp), in line with best practice.

To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as named worker, for a caseload of service users to support and monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:

Behavioral activation and graded exposure

Teaching problem-solving skills

Improving sleep

Recognising and managing emotions

Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

Building confidence

Medication support

To be responsive to service users needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service users wishes.

To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation, and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.

To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families, and carers.

For a more detailed Job Description and Person Specification please read the attached before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
• Experience running groups/activities
• Experience working as part of a team
• Experience of being supervised
• Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Skills

Essential

• Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
• Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
• Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
• Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
• Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users

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