Structured Clinical Management Supervisor-practitioner Psychologist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London is seeking a Structured Clinical Management Supervisor-Practitioner Psychologist. The role involves direct clinical work with service users facing complex emotional needs, leading the implementation of SCM, and providing support and supervision to practitioners. Ideal candidates will have experience with psychological therapies and a commitment to mental health care. This position offers a salary of £53,751 to £60,651 per annum.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Qualifications

• Enthusiasm for working with a CEN population using a structured evidenced based approach.
• Ability to assess, care plan, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Experience in supervising healthcare staff.

Responsibilities

• Direct clinical work with a CEN population including assessment and treatment.
• Support and directly supervise SCM Practitioners.
• Audit and evaluation of SCM across Enfield and Haringey.

Skills

Ability to undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment

Ability to work effectively in crisis situations

Well-developed communication skills

Education

Practitioner Psychologist registered with the HCPC

Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/supervision

Completion of training in one or more models of psychological therapies

Job description

Structured Clinical Management Supervisor-practitioner Psychologist

The SCM Supervisor- Practitioner Psychologist role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced or newly qualified practitioner psychologist who has a strong interest in working with service users with Complex Emotional Needs. You will work alongside other SCM practitioners to implement SCM within the Core teams across Enfield and Haringey. The role offers the opportunity for direct clinical work including assessment, formulation and treatment in both group and individual settings. A key part of the role is to lead on the implementation of SCM within Enfield and Haringey, offering support and supervision to SCM Practitioners. The role also has scope for training and consultation to other healthcare professionals.

The ideal candidate will have an enthusiasm for working with a CEN population using a structured evidenced based approach. They will enjoy working within a team, whilst also being able to work independently. The candidate will be required to travel between St Anne's Hospital (Haringey) and Chase Farm Hospital (Enfield).

The organisation is committed to supporting the right candidate to both develop skills in SCM, supervisor and CPD within the wider CEN Pathway. You will have access to SCM training, regular group and individual supervision.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• Direct clinical work with CEN population across Enfield and Haringey, including assessment, formulation, treatment both individual and group.
• Risk assessment and management within the SCM pathway.

Supervision/Teaching/consultation

• Supporting and directly supervising SCM Practitioners within Enfield and Haringey.
• Supporting the wider MDT in relation to CEN population, to include consultation and training.
• Audit and evaluation of SCM across Enfield and Haringey.
• With the support of the Head of CEN and Senior leads across the Enfield and Haringey to lead on the implementation of SCM within core teams.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To use a high level of interpersonal skills, reasoning and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship with people with complex emotional difficulties managing barriers to communication.
• To provide SCM supervision to clinicians individually and in groups.
• To collaborate with the service user to enable the individual to be a partner in care.
• To undertake SCM assessment to include mental health and risk assessments, psychological formulation and care planning.
• To provide SCM in both 1:1 sessions and group sessions in conjunction with other practitioners.
• To act as a named worker for the service users allocated to your care practising without direct supervision and with a degree of autonomy.
• To make onward referrals and signpost to other services including VCSE and neighbourhood services to enable wrap around, holistic support for service users undergoing treatment to meet a broad range of need.
• To participate in MDT discussions.
• To liaise with and develop relationships with other agencies involved in the service users care to ensure consistent multi agency approach and maintain effective communication.
• Provide advice and guidance to other members of the team/s in relation to SCM.
• To attend and participate in SCM supervision and individual clinical supervision.
• To participate in other clinical duties as appropriate.

Research And Development

• Alongside other SCM practitioners and under supervision to monitor, evaluate and modify all individual and group-work interventions/treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
• To participate in data collection, audit and research as required.

Responsibility for Administration

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the regulating body and Organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Practitioner Psychologist registered with the HCPC
• An understanding of the core components of SCM
• A commitment to pursue SCM supervisor training and accreditation
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body
• Recognised training in teaching/mentorship/ supervision
• Undertaken accredited training in SCM
• Completion of training in one or more models of psychological therapies for individuals with complex emotional needs for example MBT, DBT
• Supervisor accreditation achieved or in process for example in SCM or MBT or other relevant psychological models

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems, specifically with service users whose difficulties can be understood as Personality Disorder.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to assess, care plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet needs of clients.
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, both individually and in an organisational context.
• Skills in running and setting up therapeutic groups.
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a highly emotive and unpredictable environment.

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways.
• Experience of supervising healthcare staff.
• Knowledge and experience of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more psychological models for working with service users with complex emotional needs for example, SCM, MBT or DBT.

Personal Qualities

• Strong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£53,751 to £60,651 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS