Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

Job overview

Whilst we welcome all applications from all suitable candidates, unfortunately, we will not be offering sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for a new staff member who shares our passion and commitment to work with individuals with Personality disorder to improve their wellbeing and achieve great outcomes together.  We have a vacancy for a part time (3 days per week) band 5 worker to join us and offer structured clinical management.  Structured Clinical Management is an evidence-based approach for working with people diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorders.  Training will be provided, and this offers an exciting opportunity to join an established group of practitioners to offer a quadrant wide therapy service within the community mental health team, as well as joining the wider network of therapists across the trust. The service works to meet the needs of service users who are experiencing significant difficulties with emotional instability and impulsive behaviours, and working within the local multi-disciplinary community teams.  We pride ourselves on the quality of the service that we offer and place importance on supporting all our therapists to provide great care, with an emphasis placed on maintaining and developing skills and regular supervision.

Main duties of the job

This post would suit someone with a core mental health qualification and registration (including those recently qualified in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or other  appropriately registered therapists - see person spec for details) or a psychology graduate (eligible for BPS registration) with more than 2 years’ experience in community mental health settings.  The successful applicants will also have an interest in working collaboratively with service users to develop their skills to improve their ability to tolerate and manage strong emotion.  It would suit someone who loves working as part of a team and alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.  Ideally we are looking for someone with experience of working with this service user group in any care setting, or someone who has transferable skills.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is a successful provider of mental health and learning disability services delivering services, rated Outstanding by CQC. We are a Values Based organisation and our aim is to ensure that we deliver an experience that is consistently welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional, because these are the Values that our service users, carers and staff told us meant the most to them.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role will be interesting and varied, and the worker will have an opportunity to contribute to our group therapies programme for this client group.  There are also excellent opportunities to progress and undertake further training to progress.  The post will be based out of one of the community teams, but the ability to work flexibly as the needs of the service demands will be essential. The post holder would expect some travel within their working week.

If you have any queries, or just want to find out more , please don’t hesitate to contact us.