Senior Clinical Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a senior Clinical Practitioner to join their Integrated Community Pathways Service. The role involves working with high-risk individuals with personality difficulties, providing essential support for desistance and wellbeing. The ideal candidate will have professional qualifications in psychology and experience with complex case management. The position requires travel across London to various locations to support service users and agencies, offering a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing high-risk service users with personality disorders.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Familiarity with multi-agency collaboration practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide stabilization support to high-risk service users in the community.
• Liaise with probation and other agencies for service user welfare.
• Contribute to the evaluation of developing services.

Skills

Emotional stabilisation support

Risk management consultation

Supervision of clinical practitioners

Education

Relevant professional qualification in psychology or mental health

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to take on a senior Clinical Practitioner role within a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS), as part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway. This specialist input will focus on supporting the effective management and engagement of people on probation who present with complex personality difficulties and a high risk of harm to others, with the joint aims of reducing offending and improving psychological wellbeing.

Please note, as well as DBS checks you will also be expected to undertake HMPPS security vetting.

Development opportunities

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Opportunities for ongoing in-house training and development are offered to all staff on the OPD Pathway, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk service users with personality difficulties in the community, providing practical and emotional stabilisation support to assist their effective desistance.

They will provide supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners, and appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management consultation and advice to involved staff across agencies. They will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disorder in a forensic population and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance.

The postholder will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and to the audit and evaluation of developing services. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of London Pathways Partnership (LPP)'s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the OPD Pathway.

The London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London ICPS for the OPD Pathway. The OPD Pathway provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to multi-agency professionals working with them.

The South West ICPS is a multidisciplinary team made up of psychologists, probation officers, clinical practitioners and specialists from other sectors (e.g. housing). We deliver consultation, training and joint casework to PSL, and stabilisation/therapeutic interventions to people on probation. We have active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and the PSL in line with desistance principles. LPP's social inclusion projects include the development of community 'hubs' in north and south London offering a range of socially inclusive activities and support to service users. We cover the following areas:

• Hounslow
• Kingston & Richmond
• Merton & Sutton
• Wandsworth
• Lambeth
• Croydon

Blue Star House is based in south London, zone 2 and is close to a vibrant high street with lots of shops and restaurants. It is within walking distance of Brixton rail and tube station, Stockwell tube station and Clapham High Street rail station, offering easy transport links. Please note the postholder will be expected to regularly travel across London to other settings, such as approved premises and probation offices.