Senior Clinician

Job overview

My job makes better lives by supporting the delivery of recovery-focused, psycho-educational courses as part of a tiered programme for people with traits, or a diagnosis, of Personality Disorder (PD) and their carers. The aim of the Managing Emotions Programme is to help train and empower people to develop the skills to manage their own recovery or the recovery of those they care for or work with.

Job Overview

The post holder will deliver the 3 tiers of recovery-focused, psycho-educational courses related to improving the self-management of emotional intensity to group members. They will support the recruitment, management and supervision of Managing Emotions Programme (MEP) staff along with the clinical lead and service manager. They will have direct involvement in the development, delivery and evaluation of the MEP.

Main duties of the job

Qualifications required

• BSc Honours Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing (RMN) or equivalent qualification.
• Professional Registration with HCPC, NMC or equivalent.
• Driving licence suitable for use in the United Kingdom

Experience Required

• Postgraduate/post qualification experience working in a clinical role with people who have a personality disorder or other mental health difficulties, for a minimum of 12months.
• 1 year minimum experience of providing clinical supervision to others.
• Experience of groupwork, teaching or training others (2 year minimum).
• Experience delivering one or more of the main therapies; DBT, CBT, ACT or similar.
• 12 months experience of working as a senior, clinical member of an MDT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• To provide leadership to the service, alongside the Team Manager and Senior Clinical Lead, to provide an effective, high quality service which enhances the co-production of PD recovery-focused courses.
• To support the co-delivery of the courses, offering a range of recovery-focused, psycho-educational courses aiming to improve the self-management of traits, or a diagnosis, of PD and co-deliverv specific courses for carers.
• To lead on the evaluation of the MEP, supporting the use of relevant and appropriate outcome measures.
• To provide supervision to the Band 5 Expert Trainer / Mental Health Practitioner.
• To ensure courses are co-produced and are sensitive to the needs of specific localities i.e taking into consideration 18-25 year old population, working age adults, older adults, SMI, and equality and diversity issues in the community they are serving.
• To support the co-development and evaluations of the carers provision by promoting a focus on carers health and wellbeing, including young carers.
• To carry out reviews of individuals who may need time and support in order for them to engage them in the programme or to connect them to alternative community provision.
• To support the development and promotion of the Managing Emotions Programme in Surrey Heartlands and Frimley Health ICS.
• To embody the recovery ethos of the service and co-production principles through compassionate working.
• To be able to reflect on and contain own response to group interpersonal dynamics.

DUAL ROLES

In some instances, employees are in receipt of services as well as providing a service. This gives these post holders a unique and extremely valuable insight into the Trust’s services from multiple perspectives. The advantage of having a dual role includes the ability to implement a co-designed approach to the planning, development and delivery of services, and to work as a peer to encourage and promote the self-management of health conditions. The challenges that can arise from having a dual role include complex boundary issues, which involves having access to information they otherwise wouldn’t, if they were not an employee. All staff are bound by the same confidentiality rules and need to demonstrate the same Trust values as all other employees when at work and outside their immediate work situation.

This job description is not restrictive or definitive in any way and should be regarded only as a guideline to normal duties.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.