Senior Clinical Practitioner

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	24 Tachwedd 2025
Cyflog:	£56,276.00 i £63,176.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£56276.00 - £63176.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Rhagfyr 2025
Lleoliad:	London, SW9 9SP
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9334-25-1234

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Clinical: To provide expert advice, consultation, formulation, assessment and treatment for individuals with personality difficulties and for staff working with these individuals. 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 formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the person on probations problems, and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines. To provide specialist 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, organise 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 people on probation whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within the OPD Pathway. To develop specialist desistance and stabilisation programmes for individual service users with highly complex presentations, and highly specialised advice for multi-agency professionals within the OPD Pathway. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for people on probation 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 in the network of care. To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to people on probations 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 people on probation within the OPD Pathway and to monitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery. Teaching, training and supervision: To receive regular supervision and line management from a psychologist. To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within the principal service area where the post holder is employed. To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-agency staff and relevant professional practice as appropriate. To provide supervision and line management to clinical practitioners within the team. To provide supervision to students on placement from the relevant professional practice area. To co-produce and co-deliver workforce development interventions with service users within and beyond the postholders principal service area. To contribute to external and internal training programmes. Management, recruitment and service development: To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To contribute to the development of the services governance and strategy, and to implement and monitor policy and practice initiatives as required. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychosocial and/or organisational matters need addressing. To implement policy and propose changes to practices and procedures within the service area and the OPD Pathway. To help manage the workloads of Band 6 and 5 clinical practitioners and support workers, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of multidisciplinary staff. To be involved in service development projects as agreed by the professional lead. IT responsibilities: 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. Research and service evaluation: To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To initiate, implement and 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. To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary team. To contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorates and Trusts operational policies and services. General: 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 holders professional and service manager(s). 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. 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 and Trust policies and procedures. 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.