A great opportunity has arisen to join St Helens Recovery Team. We are looking for a dedicated B7 practitioner to support our RESP Pathway, in the role of Personality Disorder Link Worker.

In this role, you will work closely with the wider Recovery MDT and Psychology, offering support and psychological based interventions under NICE guidance, to clients with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

You will work closely with experienced colleagues in the MDT, with ongoing support and clinical supervision. You will also have the opportunity for continued professional development via access to specific, in depth training to support you in this role.

St Helens Recovery Team are a well led, highly regarded service. Our base is Harry Blackman House and our core hours are Mon to Fri 9-5 (subject to change)

Main duties of the job

You will undertake assessments and offer specific psychological based interventions to clients under the RESP Pathway in Team.

This will involve working with clients, both on an individualised 1-1 basis and group work.

You will work closely with the Recovery MDT and wider services, to promote recovery and achieve best outcomes for clients under the RESP Pathway.

You will take a lead role in identifying and formulating service users needs and working together with other professionals and agencies, to help meet those needs, providing specific goal based interventions and support.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A more detailed job description and person specification is attached to this vacancy. For any further enquiries please contact Team Manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
• Evidence of continuing professional development in the field of RMN or / Occupational Therapist with post qualification and further training in Personality Disorder.
• Completion of relevant course in DBT/MBT or a willingness to undertake DBT or MBT training.

Desirable

• Competent in the writing of formulations

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the Personality disorder Pathway model.
• Working experience of Inpatient / outpatient settings
• Experience of formulating risk assessments
• Experience of working with mental health services (or able to demonstrate transferrable skills)
• A working knowledge of NICE Guidance protocols
• A clear understanding of complex needs support issues such as homelessness, substance misuse and offending.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding protocols
• Knowledge and understanding of how to deal with challenging individuals.

Desirable

• Previous experience of delivering Psychological Interventions to people with Personality Disorder
• Experience of Care Co-ordination
• Experience of Community Mental Health Care
• Additional training in Personality Disorder
• Awareness of Primary Care Multi-agency demands

Values

Essential

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal / written communication skills
• Competent IT skills
• Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities.
• Able to prioritise and organise workload.
• Ability to motivate others.
• Ability to manage risk.
• Demonstrate an ability to maintain clear boundaries.
• Demonstration of Psychological awareness of other strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstration of an ability to have flexibility in their coping style and an awareness to see problems from a different perspective.

Desirable

• To be able to chair meetings.
• Leadership Skills evidence of clinical leadership in a particular domain, ideally Personality Disorder
• To demonstrate the ability to tolerate and manage conflict

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Harry Blackman House

Marshalls Cross Road

St Helens

WA9 3DE

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