Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Senior Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to establish and oversee the provision of evidenced-based Structured Clinical Management (SCM) for service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) within the Barnet and Enfield Core Teams. You will work with SCM Practitioners and alongside other mental health practitioners in the Core teams providing SCM assessments, formulations, and group and individual interventions.

As well as receiving your regular supervision from the specialist Complex Emotional Needs (PD) Pathway, you will also offer group and individual supervision to colleagues based in the SCM pathway as well as the wider Core Team.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and experienced qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. Psychologist, RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Psychotherapist) with additional training in SCM. 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

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

Offer SCM supervision to the Practitioners in the pathways and other colleagues working with an SCM model.

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.

About us

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• oDoctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
• oRegistration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist (or accreditation pending if you are a trainee clinical or counselling psychologist due for qualification in September 2024)

Desirable

• oRecognised training in teaching/mentorship/ supervision
• oWorking towards or completion of SCM Supervisor status
• oMentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Basic training
• oBasic Training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• oBasic Training Certificate in Structured Clinical Management or willingness to engage in SCM training

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• oStrong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
• oMinimum of two years' 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.
• oExperience of supervising professionals from different clinical backgrounds other than own core profession.
• oExperience of multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• oExperience of service development or of a leadership role.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• oAbility 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.
• oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body
• oDegree level research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields.
• oExperience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm.

Desirable

• oSkills in setting up and running groups
• oEnthusiasm about evidence-based practice and about using patient feedback as well as team performance data to develop service as best suited for the needs of our patient population.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oAn enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of Personality Disorder
• oAbility to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• oAbility to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others
• oAbility to demonstrate the North London Partnership Values

Desirable

• oA commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
• oDesire to take up leadership in service development of psychological treatment services

Other Requirements

Essential

• oAbility to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
• oAbility 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
• oTo be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital (EN5 3DJ) & Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital (EN2 8JL)

Barnet and Enfield

EN5 3DJ

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