Clinical Practitioner, Band 6

The post-holder will provide a specialist service of substance misuse expertise to the pan-London Integrated Pathways Community Service, working together with NPS colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation phase of the ICPS. The post-holder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users to assist their effective desistance, and provide specialist consultation on substance misuse, advice and training to NHS and NPS staff and other agencies. The postholder will contribute to workforce development by providing supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners and appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management advice to involved staff across agencies.

The postholder will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of involved service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disordered offenders and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance. They will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and tothe audit and evaluation of developing services. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP's services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.

Main duties of the job

Our staff provide NHS services in south east London and Kent that take care of the whole person - body and mind. We specialise in community health, mental health and learning disabilities services.

Our 4,000 members of staff work from a range of sites across the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich and into Kent.

We support our staff to develop, have excellent access to technology and have great opportunities for career progression and flexible working. We support staff well-being and offer practical support with housing.

We are committed to equality for all our staff, including around race, sexual orientation, disability and gender identity. We take equality and diversity seriously and have active BAMEx, LGBTQ+, disability and mental health staff networks. We have completed the first year of our Building a Fairer Oxleas programme which is making positive changes to how it feels to work at Oxleas. The initial focus has been on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding.

About us

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description Job responsibilities

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• • To provide specialist substance misuse psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
  • To formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
  • To provide specialist advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
  • To plan, organize and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers and involved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
  • To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  • To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
  • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with service users whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within the OPD Pathway.
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
  • To take responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychosocial interventions and care/pathway plans including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
  • To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulations and pathway plans.
  • To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychosocially-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies.
  • To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of service users within the OPD Pathway and to monitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• oDegree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience oNVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care, and/or equivalent professional qualification (e.g. Health Care, Social Work, equivalent overseas qualification).

Desirable

• oTraining in psychological formulation oTraining/courses in substance use and related issues oTraining/courses in management or supervisory practice oEvidence of continuing professional development post-qualification

Experience Essential

• oExperience of working within a multi-disciplinary team oExperience of delivering individual and group interventions with a focus on substance misuse oExperience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students. Minimum 3 years experience

Desirable

• oExperience of working with service users with complex personality difficulties. oExperience of inter-agency working. oExperience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies

Knowledge and skills Essential

• oCompetence in the assessment of risk oAbility to establish rapport and appropriate therapeutic relationships with service users oAbility to ensure comprehensive assessments, formulations and reviews. oAbility to appropriately share information with professionals in pursuance of shared goals. oAbility deliver and monitor structured interventions to service users with a range of needs oAbility to organise, coordinate and prioritise caseloads. oAbility to ensure own and others' high quality and defensible case records and documents oAbility to communicate effectively, with colleagues and partner organisations. oResilience to work in an often hostile environment oAbility to make effective decisions, and escalate, applicable to the level of the role. oAbility to work independently and flexibly, to manage workload and meet service needs. oAbility to manage emotionally challenging situations or discussions appropriately. oAbility to deal with emergency situations/crises safely and effectively; frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional situations; exposure to verbal aggression and risk of physical aggression. oAbility to work with diverse populations including high-risk and complex offenders. oAbility to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in complex, contentious and sensitive situations. oCommitment to confidentiality, professional boundaries, and safeguarding procedures.

Desirable

• oSpecialist knowledge of the theory and practice of desistance with offenders

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