Senior Psychosocial Practitioner - Iris Therapeutic Community
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2024 |
| Location: | Exeter, EX2 9HS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9369-24-0336 |
Summary
Key Qualities/Skills required Openness to both conscious and unconscious communication and recognises behaviours and affects are communication Communicates in a clear direct manner and actively listens and engages with others to further their understanding Can adapt the mode of communication appropriate to the audience Avoids telling others what to think but provides/creates opportunities for understanding to grow / develop / emerge. Can think about ones own capacities and deficits in relation to the work. Can work by continually being aware of ones responses to others and ones self Self-reflection / awareness - desire to know why one is drawn to this work Has self-knowledge - able to self-talk - adopt a third position Duties and Responsibilities Communication and Working Relationship Skills Collaborate closely with the staff team offering the treatment programme in the other parts of the Personality Disorder & Complex Emotional Needs Pathway. Be committed to developing thoughtful and reflective relationships with other team members and service users. Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies. Impart complex and sensitive information to: ü Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review. ü Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well coordinated care. ü Primary care teams regarding client care. ü External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc. ü Service user/carer groups. Maintain professional working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and in the support of the treatment of personality disorders in community networks. Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquiries. Provide and receive information, some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex, to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to their understanding. Provide a high standard of written and verbal communication, which is clear and in line with professional documentation standards. Participate in and chair clinical meetings, professional meetings and clinical risk meetings. Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain co-operation from highly complex individuals. Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies. Communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere, including situations where communications which are highly complex, sensitive or contentious and the degree of hostility and antagonism require the use of a high level of interpersonal and communication skills on an on-going basis. Analytical and Judgemental Skills Can understand and acknowledge issues of authority, power, and leadership. Can understand the varied reasons for organisational anxiety, the defences which operate to avoid this and ones own role in managing this. Work with complex clinical situations requiring thoughtful analysis and interpretation of a range of factors and considerations, such as, safeguarding, risk, challenging behaviours whilst holding in mind unconscious processes and communications. Assessing and managing complex risk presentations within a relational and organisational context. Planning and Organisational Skills Convene and attend management and professional meetings as required. Actively participate in team and other agency discussions to ensure the identification of need and participate in the development and delivery of integrated local services in line with local need. Responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day work load in collaboration with the needs of the community and the wider needs of the service. Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation. Ensuring active involvement of service users and their carers. Undertake psychosocial assessments of referred patients and contribute to the formulation and treatment planning. Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of the client. Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed. This may include engagement of advocacy services. Document clinical activity in a timely and accurate manner, in line with professional guidance and best practice. . Participate in safeguarding children to level 3 as set out in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff. Support the care pathway for the treatment of people with a diagnosis of personality disorder. Deliver interventions in one to one and group formats. Support the care and treatment of people with a diagnosis of personality disorder by other clinicians, teams and services. Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings. Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided. Participate in the development of the Personality Disorder & Complex Needs Pathway. Be involved in the development of local systems and processes that promote the implementation of Trust policies. Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources Responsible for care of own equipment. Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management Provide clinical supervision for a number of qualified staff. In conjunction with Psychotherapists ensure the team makes reflective practice a key aspect of the clinical day. Take a clinical lead in the absence of the team leader. Mentor students allocated to the team. Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties maintain records in a timely and accurate manner. Responsibility for Research and Development Participate in research and development. Freedom to Act Professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. Interpretation of professional and Trust guidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, head of Profession and General Manager. Work within the operational and service specifications. Work without direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions. Act autonomously within the health and social care framework to make clinical and non-clinical decisions and consults with senior staff and/or manager in accordance with their professional judgement. Any Other Specific Tasks Required Participate in own clinical supervision and PDR. Undertake any other reasonable management request. Ensure that statutory training is undertaken. Professional Duties Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working to the principles of the functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and values set out in them. Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to receive safe and competent care. The Service Users wishes, feelings, values and beliefs should be taken into consideration as well as the views of the people close to them. Take personal accountability for your own practice. This means that you are answerable for your actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another professional. Ensure that you remain professionally competent by participating in your own and others clinical supervision.