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Community Practitioner – specialist in personality disorder

Employer
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Beckenham
Salary
Depending on experience per annum inc HCAS
Closing date
28 Mar 2023

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The Croydon Personality Disorder Service is looking to recruit a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or equivalent to the post of Community Practitioner- specialist in personality disorder.

We are looking for staff with a commitment to working with people with personality disorder along with the confidence and skill to work effectively in therapeutic groups.

This is an exciting job with great opportunities to learn a range of clinical skills working in therapeutic groups, and with personality disordered patients. You will be trained in using Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) skills level A, learning to use the Structured Clinical Management (SCM) model, and in the competencies required to facilitate SUN groups, and become an accredited SUN group facilitator. You'll also learn skills working individually with personality disordered patients, from an experienced and well-established team.

Our team is known as a very supportive team, and with an emphasis on regular supervision and weekly Reflective Practice, and on development of staff skills and knowledge.

You will be based in the psychotherapy day hospital, The Touchstone Centre, on the Bethlem Royal Hospital site and will go out into the Croydon community to facilitate our Sun Project/ visit patients at home or deliver aspects of their treatment in the community.

Previous applicants and those who were previously interviewed need not apply again.

Main duties of the job

We provide specialist, evidence-based, psychotherapeutic day hospital treatment for working-age people with moderate to severe personality disorder. We also run The Sun Project, a coping skills development and crisis support group 4 times a week in central Croydon to people with or without a diagnosis of personality disorder. You will work within our team of psychotherapists, doctors, specialist community psychiatric nurses and care co-ordinators.

We offer a strong, supportive and cohesive team and this exciting post means that you get the opportunity to develop your clinical skills to attain accreditation from us in facilitation of appraisal based coping skills development groups (the SUN project), develop MBT skills in working with personality disordered patients, and will participate in learning identified in your appraisal and personal development plan.

About us

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Benefits:

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
  • Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
  • Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
  • Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
  • Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
  • Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
  • NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:
  • Counselling services
  • Wellbeing events
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job description Job responsibilities

Qualifications

Registered Mental Health Nurse, occupational therapist or mental health social worker or equivalent.

Experience

At least 1 year post qualifying mental health service work with peoplewith a range of mental health problems.

Experience of facilitating groups in a mental health setting

Knowledge and demonstrable commitment to deliver accessible andacceptable care to people across cultural and other differences

A working knowledge of the physical health vulnerabilities and needs of people with mental health problems.

Ability ideally be a car driver with business use insurance.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential
  • Registered mental health nurse, occupational therapist or mental health social worker or equivalent.
Desirable
  • Certified attendance at Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) training. Certificate of Group skills training
Experience Essential
  • At least 1 years post qualifying mental health service work with people with a range of mental health problems.
  • Experience of facilitating groups in a mental health setting.
  • Experience of co-ordinating shifts where there is a need to assess, identify, communicate and manage patient risk issues to a range of professionals.
  • Experience of supervision and or mentoring students or junior colleagues
Desirable
  • Mentorship or supervision training
Knowledge Essential
  • Knowledge and demonstrable commitment to deliver accessible and acceptable care to people across cultural and other differences
  • A working knowledge of the physical health vulnerabilities and needs of people with mental health problems.
Desirable
  • Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the resilience needed to work safely with this patient group
Ability Essential
  • Ability - ideally a car driver with business use insurance or able to use other transport (including public transport) that can quickly and efficiently get you to home visits and off site groups
  • Ability to demonstrate commitment to working with people with personality disorder.
  • Ability to work on a Saturday morning on a rota basis.
Knowledge Essential
  • Evidence of relevant continuing professional development required by professional registering body.


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334-CRY-5045795-TRAC

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