Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical
1. To help ensure that practitioners working within Northumberland
Talking Therapy sites are able to offer rapid screening and assessment, supported by
appropriate systems and processes.
2. To help ensure that practitioners are adequately
skilled to provide assessment and low intensity interventions e.g.
psycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help, computerised CBT based on
evidence and on CBT theories and techniques.
3. To help ensure that step 2 interventions are an
integral part of services that are comprehensive and accessible to a broad
range of patients with common mental health problems over 16 years of age.
4. To help ensure that step 2 services across Northumberland Talking Therapy sites develop to meet local needs or priorities; this might include
developing the suites of psycho-educational classes on offer in each locality.
5. To help ensure that step 2 staff are able to meet
service targets and KPIs both individually and as teams in each of our Talking Therapy sites.
6. To help ensure that services are equitable and
non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability.
7. To help ensure that suitable referral pathways are
in place to support GPs and other potential referrers in making appropriate
referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles.
8. To help ensure that suitable onward referral
pathways are in place to enable our staff to make appropriate referrals to
other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect
patients to other sources of appropriate support within their local community
as required.
9. To help develop a local knowledge of the various
localities and their services and facilities, particularly in relation to
mental health issues.
10. To help ensure that services are flexible as far as
possible in terms of clinic hours, enabling clinics to be run outside normal
working hours where necessary.
11. Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental
health services and social service departments.
- To help support practitioners to
conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate
appropriate action where indicated (including requests for mental health
act assessments and referrals to relevant secondary care services).
Supervision and Training
1. Undertake own clinical and management supervision
on a regular basis in accordance with relevant professional guidelines and
policies.
2. To help ensure that qualified and trainee PWPs
within our Talking Therapy services receive sufficient and suitable case management
supervision and clinical skills supervision to enable them to carry out their
role safely and effectively.
3. Provide CMS and clinical skills supervision to PWPs
and trainee PWPs as necessary.
4. To help co-ordinate and provide training and CPD
opportunities to PWP teams across our Talking Therapy sites.
5. Offer training to Primary Care staff in CBT based
interventions.
6. Attend locally organised and national training
appropriate to the work role.
Professional
- Take personal responsibility for
Northumberland Talking Therapy sites to achieve service targets and KPIs.
2. To act as a resource of information relating to low
intensity CBT for the whole organisation.
3. Adhere to the policies and procedures of NTT, Sunderland
Counselling Service and partner organisations as required.
4. Maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping
with service operational policy.
5. Participate in setting and review of objectives for
the post on an annual basis.
6. Participate in activities of continuing
professional development (CPD) on an annual basis.
7. Attend meetings as appropriate, including the
senior clinical and operational management teams across Northumberland Talking Therapy sites.
- Ensure that client confidentiality is
protected at all times.
- Exercise
personal responsibility for the systematic clinical governance of low
intensity interventions.
- Proactively
take responsibility for attending supervision, case management and line
management regularly, participate in objective setting, performance reviews
and respond to agreed objectives.
- Promote and contribute to the
development and maintenance of a healthy therapeutic culture within the
service amongst colleagues and service users.
Management
1. To help ensure that qualified and trainee PWPs
within our Talking Therapy services receive sufficient and suitable case management
supervision and clinical skills supervision to enable them to carry out their
role safely and effectively.
2. Provide CMS and clinical skills supervision to PWPs
and trainee PWPs as necessary.
3. To help ensure that staff teams achieve appropriate
targets in terms of weekly clinical activity, number of contacts per week, case
load etc.
4. To help ensure that staff teams maintain appropriate
clinical records in keeping with service operational policy.
5. To help ensure staff teams maintain outcome data
and achieve recovery targets as per service operational policy.
6. To help ensure that staff teams participate in
setting and review of objectives for their post on an annual basis.
7. To help ensure that staff teams participate in
activities of continuing professional development (CPD) on an annual basis.
8. Participate in audits of clinical activity and
evaluative research as required.
Communication
and Relationship Skills:
- Proactively develop
robust professional relationships with colleagues within SCS and
Northumberland Talking Therapy sites.
- Provide and receive
information related to mental health and CBT to individuals or groups of
service users, relatives, carers, members of the public and professionals.
- Communicate as appropriate with external
agencies (including housing, police, local authority, employers,
employment support workers etc.)
- Proactively develop robust professional
relationships with primary care professionals (e.g. General Practice
staff), supporting the active integration of CBT provision into primary
care.
- Develop and maintain good professional
relationships with mental health workers in primary and secondary care.
- Develop and maintain good professional
relationships with mental health workers in the voluntary sector.
Knowledge,
Training and Experience:
- Have theoretical and
practical clinical knowledge of Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy.
- Have knowledge,
training and experience in disorders common in primary and secondary
mental health care to identify, provide preliminary education to the service
user and direct the service user to clinical resources where CBT is not
the optimum intervention.
- Have training in
models of supervision so as to be able to act credibly as supervisor to
PWPs.
- Knowledge, training
and experience of acting in a leadership role.
Analytical
and Judgment Skills:
- Gather a range of
facts and contexts, relevant to the service user(s) clinical care. Analyse
and weigh the relative importance of the factors to form an understanding
of the service user(s) difficulties and relate these to the range of
treatment options available. Acting as a senior therapist, enable others
to form a judgment between the relative utilities of the treatment options
and the service users preferences.
- To collate clinical
data from service users in our services, within the overall framework of
the required data output of the service with the intention of: (a)
identifying and minimising risk, (b) optimising clinical effectiveness,
(c) optimising service efficiency.
- Contribute to the
monitoring, review and audit of the work in our services.
- Contribute to the
clinical governance framework of the services by identifying and acting on
areas of concern and supporting colleagues who are taking the lead in
designated areas of responsibility.
Planning and
Organisational Skills:
1.
Co-ordinate your
own activities to balance the conflicting needs of service users, demands from
staff teams, demands of the different areas of service provision, your own
continuing professional development, and organisational needs. This may involve
sudden changes in plans to respond to clinical emergencies or organisational
priorities on a frequent but not regular basis.
Responsibility
for Patient / Client Care:
- Assess service
user(s), prepare a psychotherapy care plan and deliver low intensity CBT
to individuals and to groups of service users.
- Support other
clinicians in the delivery of individual and group CBT.
- Hold your own caseload
and respond to service user crises as appropriate.
- Maintain appropriate
confidentiality.
Responsibility
for Policy / Service Development:
- To help implement
policies for your areas of responsibility, across Northumberland talking Therapy sites.
- In supervision,
identify procedural areas of difficulty within your own work, and propose
improvements thus contributing to policy or service changes in line with
clinical governance and service objectives.
- Conduct audits of your
work against agreed standards and make recommendations for improvements
within the service.
- To make an active
contribution to pursue the aims, objectives and overall strategy of
Talking Matters Northumberland, thereby contributing to the development of
clinical services provided.
Responsibility
for Human Resources:
1. Manage your own time and resources
efficiently and effectively, actively engaging in your own Continuing
Professional Development.
2. Ensure that you keep your professional
knowledge up to date and keep a record of the steps that you have taken to
achieve this (record your CPD appropriately).
Responsibility
for Information Resources:
- Using computer based data entry systems,
record clinical input and outcome data.
- Collate this information and communicate
it to senior management to provide reports of the performance of step 2
services across Northumberland Talking Therapy sites.
