Job summary
- Main area
- Complex Emotional Needs (CEN)
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 333-G-HM-0661
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mil House
- Town
- Uxbridge
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 per annum inc HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Practitioner in Personality Disorder
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Job Overview
We are looking for a motivated person who is keen to contribute to and learn more about working with people with complex emotional needs within a secondary care community mental health setting.
You will join a friendly team of psychological therapy professionals from a variety of backgrounds, and you will need to have training in a core mental health profession, including counselling, psychotherapy, nursing or social work.
You may already have some training in DBT or MBT, but we will provide training and regular supervision from a psychologist.
You may be looking for a full-time or a part-time job- let us know what will work best for you.
If you are an enthusiastic clinician or practitioner, who is keen to try and upskill themselves and advance into becoming a more established community CEN practitioner then we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will be a member of a Hillingdon Community Mental Health hub Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) service, and work sensitively to engage hard-to-engage service users who may be traumatized and exhibit emotional dysregulation and self-harm. Our service users often need preparation to engage with formal psychological interventions and your job will be to work with them towards engaging in psychological therapy that can lead to change.
We offer a range of appropriate evidence-based, health interventions for clients with more complex and severe, enduring mental illnesses (SMI) providing interventions and working within the DIALOG+ framework.
These include offering a period of stabilisation using the Trust Safety and Stabilisation materials.
To liaise effectively with colleagues from Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) and HTT, offering advice on potential referrals, conducting joint assessments (where appropriate), and contributing to discussions on recommendations for future treatment and management.
Working for our organisation
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is committed to workforce development and is keen to enable the successful applicant to innovate and evolve with the service. We have recently transformed to the new Hub model, so it is an exciting opportunity to join the team.
We are a multidisciplinary service, comprising of mental health nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, employment specialists, mental health well-being practitioners and peer support workers. The team is supported by a good administrative system and offers an excellent work environment. We have good links with local statutory and non-statutory services.
- We offer Regular individual and group supervision
- There are opportunities for flexible working and some remote working is part of the job.
Additional Information.
At CNWL we are fully committed and proud to develop our workforce through training and development opportunities and this post is no different.
This post is an opportunity to work in our Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) as either an existing Band 5 or the post will offer an additional support programme to develop the post holder to become a safe and effective community mental health Band 6 CEN practitioner.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work sensitively to engage hard-to-engage service users who may be traumatized and exhibit emotional dysregulation and self-harm.
- To work carefully to reduce self-harm and other crises.
- To Co-facilitate a range of therapy groups including psychoeducation groups, Managing emotions Groups, Safety and Stabilisation Groups, Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Based Treatment (DBT).
- To use psycho-educational and self-help materials for people with complex personality difficulties across the CEN pathway from the time of first referral and presentation to the CMHH.
- Emergency assessments, as clinically indicated.
- To initiate and carry through safeguarding where appropriate.
- To be able to work with service users within intimate and emotionally intense individual and group sessions, where their behaviour may be unpredictable and challenging while maintaining emotional equilibrium, and appropriate boundaries.
- To undertake risk assessments and manage risk as part of the treatment process to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all when faced with threats of verbal abuse, deliberate self-harm and violence to self and/or others.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification RMN/ OT / SW /Counselling/Psychology
- Evidence of Skills in psycho-social treatment options
- Evidence of further post registration experience
- Evidence of clinical experience with Complex emotional needs and community service users.
Desirable criteria
- Psychological training (DBT/ MBT/ CBT)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of post-registration experience
- Evidence of clinical experience with Complex emotional needs and community service users.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of supervising the work of others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Blessing Nyahora
- Job title
- Hub Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07395847427
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: - Blessing Nyahora
Job title: - Hub Manager Specialist Pathway
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: - 07395847427
Or
Sue Cockett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and clinical lead:- [email protected]
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