Job description

Job responsibilities

The roles and responsibilities of this post are in line with the Trusts goals of implementing and rolling out Dialog+ and offered stepped care for complex mental health presentations. These roles offer low intensity interventions which are brief and focused. They play an integral role in ensuring that stepped care is a genuine offer and that psychological interventions can be offered at different stages of need and readiness.

To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.

To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

To work under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical or counselling psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or other suitably qualified psychological professional to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.

Person Specification

Registration with BPS or BABCP

Essential

• Mandatory registration to practice as a MHWP

Qualifications

Essential

• A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)

Desirable

• Any training relevant to the service user group (A/I)

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice (A/I) oExperience running groups/activities (A/I) oExperience working as part of a team (A/I) oExperience of being supervised (A/I) oExperience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• oAble to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers oAble to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality oCommitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team oAble to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format oLiaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users oAble to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan oAble to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
• oAble to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan oAble to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs. oAble to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team oAble to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security. Ability to work under pressure. oAbility to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision oTo be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis. oAble to work with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Lewisham Community Mental Health Centre sites: TBC

London

SE8 3RA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)