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Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA9 3DE |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6886073/350-MHC6886073 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in St Helens Recovery team for a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Practitioner to join our Relational and Emotional Strengths pathway team. SCM is an evidence based treatment for people who meet criteria for a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder.
You will be involved in the assessment and treatment of clients with complex emotional and relational needs, providing individual and group-based interventions in a structured, consistent, coherent and reliable way and will work on agreed goals over a discrete period of time.
You will hold your own caseload and deliver treatment within a psychological framework that is effective in treating these kinds of difficulties.
You will receive training and supervision in SCM and will be required to work therapeutically to aid in the recovery of service users within the Trust.
To provide a Structured Clinical Management in line with the Trust pathway and standard operating procedure, to provide specialist personality disorder assessments, to facilitate SCM groups and provide SCM supervisions, attend weekly supervision and provide/attend training as required.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
CLINICAL
Undertake personality disorder assessments and develop Living Life Well Crisis Care Plans
To maintain a case load of 12 SCM clients (for assessment, socialisation or full programme) and also co-facilitate a SCM group – if the post holder is not running a group then to maintain a case load of 15 clients.
To attend weekly SCM supervision meetings
To attend training programmes (as when required)
To support and provide training to other staff
To be active in managing the clients pathway through the system, including in-reach work on the ward.
During admissions to liaise with the ward staff and Home Treatment Team and remain in contact with the service user throughout involvement with these service. Try to ensure the admission has clear goals, aims and objectives and take a lead role in supporting discharge/transition.
Facilitate a planned discharge. Organise an MDT meeting if necessary. Provide information regarding how to re-access services.
To advocate for clients with a personality disorder.
To implement the SCM treatment programme for borderline personality disorder
Co-facilitate weekly SCM group meetings (90 minutes).
Named practitioner offering a transition period from services for 6 months for clients who have completed 12 months of SCM
To work in accordance with the standard operating procedure for cluster 8
Formulate and implement appropriate treatment plans and provide Structured Clinical Management
Provide short term goal focused support / input to cases on the pathway
Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service
To ensure that continuity of care is maintained and to support services to manage transitions between services in line with NICE guidance, including Section 117
To carry out assessments as per Patient Owned Database and assign patients to care clusters within the framework of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales Payment by Results (HoNOS and PBR)
To be able to provide consultation and training in personality disorder to other team members as required
Demonstrate an ability to formulate clients mental health needs
Agree to undertake additional training when required to facilitate role
To support the adherence of the personality disorder pathway.
MANAGERIAL
Provide supervision for staff.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025