Job summary
Senior Practitioner - KUF and Trauma informed training lead.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Senior Practitioner band 7. Working alongside the Recovery College you will lead on developing further trauma informed courses and you will also work as the KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) Lead and roll out the KUF training for West London NHS Trust to the staff team.
This role will also work closely with the newly developing Complex and Emotional Needs Service covering three London Boroughs - Hounslow, Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing.
This post will be open to people from a range of disciplines within the mental health care professions eg social workers, nurses, OT's and psychologists. The role will be divided between rolling out the KUF training to West London NHS Trust employees but also supporting the development of training courses within the Recovery College that are trauma informed. You will lead on the development of training courses that support clients and prevent them to remain within primary care.
This role will entail you working in partnership with key stakeholders to imbed coproduction and trauma informed care.
You will need to be committed to KUF and the post requires an excellent understanding of the benefits of co-produced training and help others see the benefits.
You will need to work in partnership with the Recovery College, CEN service and the KUF development lead within the KUF Hub.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary:
To be responsible for the CEN leadership / training as part of the Recovery College, rolling out trauma informed training and leading on local KUF training. Training and leadership will be for clients who experience difficulties with emotional instability and relationships, particularly those who frequently use unplanned and emergency care. This post will lead on developing training around CEN to support clients who remain under the care of their GP or who are being transferred back to primary care as well as supporting West London NHS Trust staff to complete the KUF training.
You will contribute to effective and compassionate service development over the remaining years of the Long Term Plan for mental health, shaping this service according to population based needs as well as contributing to the planning and delivery of service objectives, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring client focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
You will also work alongside the Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINT) looking at the needs of clients and offering an alternative to being under these services and a discharge pathway and offering service users the messages of hope, empowerment, possibility and aspiration.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of delivery are as follows:
- The role will be divided between expanding trauma informed training within the Recovery College and leading on localised KUF training to WLNT workforce. You will work closely with the Complex and Emotional Needs service.
- The post will also offer the opportunity to take a lead on co-produced training for those with CEN in consultation with service-users.
- The post will lead on partnership working with key stakeholders to imbed coproduction and trauma informed care.
- Offering advice and consultation on training for CEN and working alongside the Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINTs) Service with advice and support.
- Ensuring training programmes delivered are monitored and evaluated by considering the needs of the service users by working with lived experienced staff, peer workers and service users.
Please for further info refer to the JD and PS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key areas of delivery are as follows:
- The role will be divided between expanding trauma informed training within the Recovery College and leading on localised KUF training to WLNT workforce. You will work closely with the Complex and Emotional Needs service.
- The post will also offer the opportunity to take a lead on co-produced training for those with CEN in consultation with service-users.
- The post will lead on partnership working with key stakeholders to imbed coproduction and trauma informed care.
- Offering advice and consultation on training for CEN and working alongside the Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINTs) Service with advice and support.
- Ensuring training programmes delivered are monitored and evaluated by considering the needs of the service users by working with lived experienced staff, peer workers and service users.
Please for further info refer to the JD and PS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience
- Core Mental Health Profession registered with an appropriate professional body (e.g., NMC, UKCP, HCPC
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
- Post graduate qualification that includes supervised and assessed psychotherapeutic training OR Formal training in DBT (to intensive/upgrade level) or MBT (basic and certificate training)
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools
- Experience and skills in risk assessment and management
- Experience of working with diverse communities
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs, working with people with personality disorder, co-morbidities and complex emotional needs
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health problems and involvement in coproduction.
- Experience of delivery DBT, MBT or SCM treatment modalities and/or formally trained
- Demonstrates an understanding of co-production, or expert knowledge of coproduction working and identifying key stakeholders
Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures and skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
- Ability to undertake complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations.
- Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
- Good knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant fields.
- Computer skills: advanced keyboard skills and ability to use software programmes including word processing and email.
- Can plan, organise, and prioritise own workload. Ability to work flexibly with autonomy.
- Well-developed skills in written and verbal communication.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind Care Group Policy.
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account
- Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
Management skills
Desirable
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills.
Approach/Values
Essential
- Mobility to travel across sites
- Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
- Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
- Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
- Commitment to the aims and values of the NHS combined with high personal integrity.
- Empathy towards the needs of people using mental health and related services, and a vision of how services can make step changes for improvement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
Other
Essential
- Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems.
- Ability to sustain concentration for sustained periods and where there are several simultaneous demands requiring in-depth mental attention combined with proactive engagement with a patient / group / multidisciplinary team
- Capacity to monitor and assess own emotional psychological and physical conditions in order to increase clinical efficiency and reduce clinical and personal risk
- Ability to work flexibly with colleagues from a range of disciplines.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience
- Core Mental Health Profession registered with an appropriate professional body (e.g., NMC, UKCP, HCPC
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
- Post graduate qualification that includes supervised and assessed psychotherapeutic training OR Formal training in DBT (to intensive/upgrade level) or MBT (basic and certificate training)
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools
- Experience and skills in risk assessment and management
- Experience of working with diverse communities
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs, working with people with personality disorder, co-morbidities and complex emotional needs
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health problems and involvement in coproduction.
- Experience of delivery DBT, MBT or SCM treatment modalities and/or formally trained
- Demonstrates an understanding of co-production, or expert knowledge of coproduction working and identifying key stakeholders
Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures and skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
- Ability to undertake complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations.
- Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
- Good knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant fields.
- Computer skills: advanced keyboard skills and ability to use software programmes including word processing and email.
- Can plan, organise, and prioritise own workload. Ability to work flexibly with autonomy.
- Well-developed skills in written and verbal communication.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind Care Group Policy.
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account
- Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
Management skills
Desirable
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills.
Approach/Values
Essential
- Mobility to travel across sites
- Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
- Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
- Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
- Commitment to the aims and values of the NHS combined with high personal integrity.
- Empathy towards the needs of people using mental health and related services, and a vision of how services can make step changes for improvement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
Other
Essential
- Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems.
- Ability to sustain concentration for sustained periods and where there are several simultaneous demands requiring in-depth mental attention combined with proactive engagement with a patient / group / multidisciplinary team
- Capacity to monitor and assess own emotional psychological and physical conditions in order to increase clinical efficiency and reduce clinical and personal risk
- Ability to work flexibly with colleagues from a range of disciplines.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
