Clinical Practitioner | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £42,471 - £50,364 Per annum including Inner London Allowance |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London, EC1V 4RW |
| Cwmni: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6230977/306-BEH-1961 |
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This is an exciting opportunity to take on a Clinical Practitioner post with a specialism in substance misuse within a service with a national reputation for quality and innovation. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICPS) for the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway alongside Probation Service London (PSL) colleagues. The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. LPP also co-delivers OPD services in four prisons in partnership with HM Prison Service staff. The ICPS delivers consultation, training and joint casework to PSL, and case management and therapeutic interventions to service users, and has active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and the PSL in line with desistance principles. LPP’s Social Inclusion projects include the development of community ‘Hubs’ in north and south London offering a range of socially inclusive activities and support to service users.
The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP’s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
The postholder will have to undertake HMPSS security vetting as well as DBS checks.
The successful candidate will be part of a specialist service to the pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service, working together with PSL colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation phase of the ICPS and take a lead in areas of substance misuse. The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users provide specialist consultation, assessment, advice and training to NHS and PSL staff and other agencies.
The postholder will contribute to workforce development by providing consultation and training to practitioners across NHS, PSL and other agencies to support confidence and competence working with substance misuse. The post holder will also provide supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners and provide appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management advice to involved staff across agencies. The postholder will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of involved service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disordered offenders and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance. They will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and to the audit and evaluation of developing services.
LPP is committed to providing a comprehensive training package to all staff in order to promote continuing professional development. Recent training events have focused on structured professional judgement tools, cultural competency and resilience. The service also provides opportunities for developing specialism in particular aspects of service delivery, e.g. working with women or young people, or promoting trauma-informed approaches.
The postholder will work as a Clinical Practitioner and have experience and expertise working with individuals with substance misuse
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical/Professional
• To provide specialist psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• To provide enhanced substance misuse support to people screened in to the OPD Pathway. This should be delivered in conjunction with, and avoiding duplication with, mainstream support available to people on probation, e.g., through the Dependency and recovery service for people on probation (London) - Forward Trust.
• To identify services and play a key role in building relationships with substance misuse services across East London
• To ensure that case formulations consider the function and role of substances in individuals’ offending behaviour and personality difficulties.
• To formulate and implement plans for service users’ effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
• To provide specialist substance misuse advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
• To plan, organize and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers and involved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
• To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with service users whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within the OPD Pathway.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To take responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychosocial interventions and care/pathway plans including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
• To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users’ formulations and pathway plans.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychosocially-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of service users within the OPD Pathway and to monitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.
• Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To offer consultation and training to substance misuse providers in order to reduce exclusion on the grounds of organisational anxiety.
2. Support and training for OPD Pathway staff to increase confidence and competence in working with people with substance misuse problems
3. To receive regular supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and/or relevant senior professional colleague, and line management from the identified line manager.
4. To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within and beyond the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
5. To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision.
6. To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
• Policy and service development
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To adhere and contribute to the development of the service’s governance and strategy, and to implement and monitor policy and practice initiatives as required.
3. To work closely with partner agencies to ensure treatment planning and review is in line with sentence and risk planning, and clinical interventions are integrated with psychosocial interventions.
4. To signpost individuals into a range of health, social care and wrap-around services to support treatment and recovery goals, ensuring mapping of a wide range of internal and external referral partners.
5. To support information sharing and shared processes with key partners.
6. To regularly undertake research and development projects to continually improve service delivery.
• IT responsibilities
1. To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and clinical record purposes. To be familiar with word processing and database packages; to use appropriate computer software to develop and create clinical or other service-related reports or documents.
2. To ensure all service activity and service user information is recorded to a high standard using the required case management platforms, and within agreed timeframes.
• Research and service evaluation
1. To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, to help develop and improve services to all service users.
3. To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary team.
4. To contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorate’s and Trust’s operational policies and services.
• General Duties:
1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service manager(s).
2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop relevant professional skills taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the relevant disciplines.
3. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Jun 2024