Practitioner

West London NHS Trust; Southall; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a band 6 practitioner in the Complex Emotional Needs Service. This role involves working with adults facing emotional instability, requiring strong mental health expertise and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. You will play a crucial part in developing services, conducting assessments, and ensuring compassionate care for clients with complex needs. Join a diverse and reputable organization committed to providing high-quality mental health services, where your contributions can make a significant impact on the lives of those in need. This is a chance to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to improving mental health care in the community.

Qualifications

• Degree/diploma level education in mental health or equivalent experience.
• Core professional registration with relevant body (NMC, HCPC).

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support and develop services for clients with complex emotional needs.
• Conduct assessments and manage a caseload within the CEN.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Risk Assessment

Clinical Supervision

Therapeutic Tools

Communication Skills

Education

Degree/Diploma in Mental Health

Core Mental Health Profession Registration

Clinical/Post Graduate Management Qualification

Tools

Software Programs (Word Processing, Email)

Job description

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Site: Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) Town Southall
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59

West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a band 6 practitioner in the Complex Emotional Needs Service covering three London Boroughs – Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham. This service will be for those experiencing difficulties with emotional instability and relationships who need to be supported by a specialist Tier 3 service.

This post will be open to people from a range of disciplines within the mental health care professions including social workers, nurses and OTs. You will be expected to have significant experience of working with adults with mental health needs in the community and it would be desirable if you have experience of working with complex emotional needs and had undertaken SCM, DBT or MBT training.

Main duties of the job

The role will be focusing on clinical work and you will be expected to work closely developing the service and work with the band 7 Senior Practitioner and the Team Manager to ensure the efficient running of the clinical team. You will support developing interfaces with multiple services and stakeholders. You will work closely with the MINT teams in providing a consultative role in working with clients with CEN and also support with interventions and signposting.

You will contribute to effective and compassionate service development for mental health, shaping this service according to population-based needs. As well as contributing to the planning and delivery of service objectives, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring client focus, consistency, quality, and cost-effectiveness.

As the band 6 practitioner you will be involved in screening and assessing referrals for the CEN, liaising with referrers and providing comprehensive assessments and formulations. The role also provides a consultative function to other services. This role involves working alongside the Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINT) and you will be expected to hold a caseload of clients within CEN.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree/diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
• Core Mental Health Profession registered with an appropriate professional body (e.g., NMC, HCPC or Social Work England).
• Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level.
• Qualification or equivalent experience in SCM, MBT practitioner level or DBT accreditation or a willingness to train.
• Post graduate qualification that includes supervised and assessed psychotherapeutic training OR Formal training in SCM or DBT (to intensive/upgrade level) or MBT (basic and certificate training) with 2 years of supervised experience.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
• Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder.
• Experience and skills in risk assessment and management.
• Experience of working with diverse communities.
• Experience of inter-agency working.
• Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools.
• Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
• Lived experience of mental health problems and involvement in co-production.
• Experience of delivery SCM, DBT or MBT treatment modalities and/or formally trained.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs, working with people with personality disorder, co-morbidities and complex emotional needs.

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures and skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
• Ability to undertake complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations.
• Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision.
• Computer skills: advanced keyboard skills and ability to use software programmes including word processing and email.
• Can plan, organise, and prioritise own workload. Ability to work flexibly with autonomy.
• Well-developed skills in written and verbal communication.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
• Good knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant fields.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Skills

• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
• Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
• Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
• Ability to present information clearly.
• An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.

Approach/Values

• Mobility to travel across sites.
• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust.
• Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
• Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
• Commitment to the aims and values of the NHS combined with high personal integrity.
• Empathy towards the needs of people using mental health and related services, and a vision of how services can make step changes for improvement.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.

Other

• Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems.
• Capacity to monitor and assess own emotional psychological and physical conditions in order to increase clinical efficiency and reduce clinical and personal risk.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to sustain concentration for sustained periods and where there are several simultaneous demands requiring in-depth mental attention combined with proactive engagement with a patient/group/multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.

We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo a pre-employment checks which can take between 4-8 weeks. After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR).

Please ensure you include email addresses for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

At West London NHS Trust, we want you to support you to build a career you can be proud of and this starts before your first day with us. Our people live our values every day as they deliver, manage and work to improve our services to patients, carers, families and other professionals.

We’re committed to making our recruitment process clear and efficient. It’s in everyone’s interest that we get the very best people on board as soon as we can.