Specialist Practitioner
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,806.00 to £53,134.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44806.00 - £53134.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, N7 8US |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9455-25-0246 |
Summary
Working as a member of the non-psychotic service line based within the CDAT team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with complex Depression and Anxiety disorders. As a Specialist Practitioner the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that they understand and operate to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will contribute to governance and audit within the team. The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines, evidence based best practice and to maximise service users recovery and re-enablement. They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific specialist care and treatment plans; providing skilled specialist intervention and care to service users with complex mental health problems. Main Responsibilities 1) To be responsible for a caseload of service users. 2) To engage with service users in delivering short term interventions and offer longer term, goal-centred interventions through formulating appropriate, specialist care and treatment plans. 3) undertake assessment and review of new referrals. 4) To contribute to MDT discussion and share specialist knowledge within the team. 5) To cover Duty on a rota basis. 6) To develop professional relationships with other key stakeholders in the service users network (i.e. Primary Care, Core Teams, Inpatient and Crisis services, Housing, Carers, Employment, Education etc) and interface with these to support the service user, as well as planning for step-down.