Clinical Specialist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for two people to join the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service Community Team, filling positions left by colleagues who have been promoted within the Trust.  The two positions  we have come to a total of 1.6WTE, and we welcome applications from people seeking both full-time and part-time positions with the service.

Working as a member of the Community Care Group service line based within the Personality Disorder Service Community Team, the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with severe personality disorder and associated difficulties.

As a registered Health Care Professional (with NMC/HCPC reg.) the post holder will be responsible for working in way that promotes levels of excellence in the team and operates 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.

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 user’s strengths through Case Management and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

Main duties of the job

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 user’s strengths through Case Management and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

They will be responsible for a defined caseload and will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems. Close working relationships with service user’s whole support systems forms a vital part of this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To regularly attend and fully participate in individual and group supervision.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community
• To participate in and contribute to clinical audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service, to help improve service provision, proposing changes to working practices and procedures as required.
• To participate in and provide a specialist nursing/OT/HPC perspective to multi-disciplinary team meetings/case discussions/peer supervision
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
• To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as agreed with the therapies team manager.
• Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body (where appropriate to the post holder)
• Assessing and managing risk on a continuous basis, in line with trust policy
• Encouraging service users to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their programme of care and with their consent, where appropriate, seek the co-operation of friends, relatives, carers.
• Support other members of staff in their assessment and management of service user care needs through reviewing initial data collection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports at care reviews with the team.
• To identify carers and to offer carers assessments and review carers care plans alongside the service carer’s lead.