Job overview
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 one full time (5 days a week) and one 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.
Whilst we welcome all applications from all suitable candidates, unfortunately, we will not be offering sponsorship for this role.
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 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 post holder 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.
Please read the attached job description and person specification for further details on the role.
If you have any queries, or just want to find out more , please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
GENERAL
Essential
- Ability to comply with HCPC/ UKCP/ BACP/ NMC professional standards and current developments in the field of mental health and well-being
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice
- Flexible and positive approach to changing circumstances
- Ability to identify own developmental needs and takes responsibility for personal development
- Ability to act consistently with legislation, policies, procedures and other quality approaches and the ability to encourage and develop others to do so.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Positive problem solving approach
- Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work
- Skills for assessing clients in 1-1 sessions
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Communicated condition related information to clients, relatives, undertakes group sessions with clients atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work and communicate therapeutically with clients and their families consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating
- Ability to work and communicate as a responsible participating member of a multidisciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members’ contributions and to encourage participation of all involved
- Ability to keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Ability to alert line manager / team when direction, policies and strategies are adversely affecting users of services or the public
- Ability to time manage effectively and to work under pressure and to prioritise a clinical workload
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g.outpatient, community, adult mental health and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including adults with personality disorders
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks
- Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures
- Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
Desirable
- Experience of working in a community mental health setting
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Qualification and continuing registration* in one of the core mental health professions (e.g. psychiatric nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or graduate worker with substantial other relevant experience and with demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field. *Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g. NMC or HCPC; for Graduate Workers registration with BPS
- Completion of SCM Training (Short course) or willingness and aptitude to train.
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This advert is for Structured Clinical Management Practitioner with Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Hatfield, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £33,677 - £40,996 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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