Senior Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bethnal Green, E2 6BF |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7228758/363-TH7228758 |
Summary
THEIS is responsible for the delivery of services to adults aged 18 –65 with a recent onset of psychosis who are residents of Tower Hamlets. In 2022 the service has expanded to offer assessments and interventions for those with psychosis up until the age of 65 years. THEIS offers a range of psychosocial interventions working in collaboration with service users, carers and other relevant agencies.
THEIS helps clients to regain confidence, maximise quality of life and avoid relapse by offering support and counselling during the critical three-year period following the first episode.
Goals are agreed to meet clients’ individual needs including education, employment, independent housing, social participation, physical health and finances. Support is offered in individual and group contexts and in collaboration with other services as appropriate.
The service objective is to enable the service users to recover rapidly and fully, avoiding a pattern of recurring relapse or loss of social functioning, traumatic hospitalisation and social exclusion. The service is fully compliant with The National Service Framework Guidelines relating to Early Intervention in Psychosis and NICE guidelines for Psychosis.
• Provide visible clinical leadership to staff members in THEIS, ensuring that the service provided is high quality and person-centred.
• Along with the Operational Lead, to provide day-to-day operational management of THEIS.
• Along with the Operational Lead to ensure continued professional development within THEIS.
• To manage a protected caseload of service users with complex needs.
• To jointly take a lead and coordinate the referral and assessment pathway in THEIS.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• To ensure the operation of an efficient, responsive and equitable referral and allocation system for all multi-disciplinary staff.
• To be involved in the education and induction of all new staff members.
• To ensure that effective mechanisms are in place for clinical and professional supervision of all team members.
• To offer support to the allocated EIS care coordinators in the 4 CMHT’s around EIS systems, case discussions, traffic light protocols and the EIS model.
• To ensure that all team members have an appraisal underpinned by the knowledge and skills framework and that training needs and recommendations are implemented.
• To conduct regular reviews of caseloads for all multi-disciplinary staff.
• To ensure that team members have the skills and expertise required to engage with service users when providing assessment, advice and support.
• To ensure multi-disciplinary staff understand the psychological and social factors that can affect mental health problems and to offer a culturally sensitive service to all clients, meeting Trust standards fair access, equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
• To notify the THEIS Operational Lead regarding any serious incidents, environmental risk or complaints regarding the service, ensuring that any complaints or serious incidents are dealt with sensitively and in accordance with Trust Policy.
• To deputise for the Operational Lead in his/her absence including authorising necessary financial spend set at an agreed limit.
• To act as duty senior on a regular basis providing practice leadership for all practitioners within the team. In this capacity to oversee referrals and manage the team response to requests for urgent assessment.
• To work alongside the Operational Lead, team members to develop practice and joint working across the service including service users and carers.
• To supervise the placement of pre and post registration students within the team liaising with tutors and colleges as required.
• To chair weekly clinical meetings and take responsibility for allocation of service users to multi-disciplinary team.
• To undertake serious untoward incident investigations throughout the trust preparing detailed report with findings and recommendation.
• To take a lead within the team for the continuing development and adherence to code of conduct of own professional group.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025