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Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.

To be a named professional for a caseload of service users supporting and monitoring their progress in treatment.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a wellbeing practitioner, clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:

• Behavioural activation
• Graded exposure
• Teaching problem-solving skills
• Improving sleep
• Recognising and managing emotions
• Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
• Building confidence
• Medication support
• Relapse Prevention

To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.

To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.

To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

To form professional relationships with service users and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.

To monitor and record progression, highlight concerns and report any perceived changes in service users’ wellbeing to the team

To provide relevant information, written and oral, for records and reviews relating to service users’ progress under supervision from a suitably qualified member of the team.

Report regularly and in detail to the clinical skills supervisor and case management supervisor.

Make good use of clinical skills and case management supervision to discuss casework, make plans for action, reflect on and implement best practice in care planning and interventions.

To adhere to the employer’s expectations of professional behaviour and all relevant policies and procedures.

To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of clients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs and that actively addresses inequity of access and outcome across protected characteristics.

Attend and fulfil all of the requirements of the training element of the post, including practical, academic and practice-based assessments

Apply the learning from the training programme in practice

Receive supervision from educational provider in relation to course work to meet the required standards

Prepare and present clinical information for all service users on their caseload to case management supervision within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis,

Prepare and present clinical information for all service users receiving interventions in clinical skills supervision

Respond to and implement suggestions by supervisors in clinical practice

Participate in clinical governance and quality improvement programs as directed by the line manager.

To review service user progress using a range of tools, including outcome measures

To contribute to a healthy and safe working environment by adhering to health and safety regulations and the employer’s policies.

As part of a team, incorporate up-to-date evidence-based methods into the intervention programme as directed by the clinical skills supervisor