Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner - Early Intervention in Psychosis
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health clinician to work with the York and Selby Early Intervention in Psychosis service. This is a 12 month post to cover maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
You will work alongside an experienced and committed multidisciplinary team delivering care coordination and psychosocial interventions to people aged 14-65 experiencing a first episode of psychosis. EIP teams typically have smaller caseloads than core mental health services enabling our care coordinators to work with a high degree of autonomy and flexibility.
You will have access to individual and group clinical, caseload and management supervision and appraisal. We also offer bespoke psychologically informed consultations for complex patients and families.
Working for our organisation
The team take pride in the compassionate and caring culture with shared responsibility for delivering high quality patient care. We work hard to look after ourselves and each other.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
- Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
- Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Quality improvement activities.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management experience.
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
- Write reports.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
- Use approved breakaway techniques.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Walker
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01904 464850
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