Job summary
We are excited to announce a secondment opportunity for a clinical practitioner post within our specialist service on the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway. As part of this role, the postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users to assist their effective desistance, and provide specialist consultation, advice and training to NHS and Probation Service (PS) staff and other agencies; particularly with regards to issues around substance misuse.
Development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Opportunities for ongoing in-house training and development are offered to all staff on the OPD Pathway, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected to provide appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management advice to staff across agencies, contributing directly to service user's formulations and pathway plans; particularly with regards to issues around substance misuse. They will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of involved service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disordered offenders and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance.
The postholder will provide specialist assessment and delivery of psychosocial interventions for individuals with substance misuse, and for staff working with these individuals. They will contribute towards formulation and implementation of effective pathway planning and risk management of people on probation, and as well as desistance and stabilisation programmes for individual service users with highly complex presentations, including substance misuse issues. The postholder will also be expected to provide supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
About us
The London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS) for the OPD Pathway. The OPD Pathway provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to multi-agency professionals working with them.
The South West ICPS is a multidisciplinary team made up of psychologists, probation officers, clinical practitioners and specialists from other sectors (e.g. housing). We deliver consultation, training and joint casework to the PS, and stabilisation/therapeutic interventions to people on probation. We have active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and the PS in line with desistance principles. We cover the following areas: Hounslow; Kingston & Richmond; Merton & Sutton; Wandsworth; Lambeth; and Croydon.
About our location:
Lambeth Hospital is based in south London, zone 2 and is close to a vibrant high street with lots of shops and restaurants. It is within walking distance of Brixton (overland and tube stations), Clapham North tube station, Clapham High Street rail station and Wandsworth Road overland station, offering easy transport links. The site offers parking and is not located within the congestion charge zone. Please note the postholder may be expected to travel across London to other settings, such as approved premises and probation offices.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical:
- To provide expert advice, consultation, formulation, assessment and treatment for individuals with serious offending histories, personality difficulties and substance misuse needs, and for staff working with these individuals.
- To provide specialist psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- To formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the person on probations problems,and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
- To provide specialist advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
- To plan, organise and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers andinvolved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
- To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmentalprocesses that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with people on probation whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within theOPD Pathway.
- To develop specialist desistance and stabilisation programmes for individual service users with highly complex presentations, including substance misuse issues, and highly specialised advice for multi-agency professionals within the OPD Pathway.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for people on probation in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and riskmanagement.
- To take responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychosocial interventions and care/pathway plans including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in thenetwork of care.
- To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to people on probations formulations and pathway plans.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychosocially-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of people on probation within the OPD Pathway and tomonitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.
Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular supervision and line management from a psychologist.
- To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
- To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-agency staff and relevant professional practice as appropriate.
- To provide supervision and line management to clinical practitioners within the team.
- To provide supervision to students on placement from the relevant professional practice area.
- To co-produce and co-deliver workforce development interventions with service users within and beyond the postholders principal service area.
- To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
Management, recruitment and service development:
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies andservices, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To contribute to the development of the services governance and strategy, and to implement and monitor policy and practice initiatives as required.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychosocial and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To implement policy and propose changes to practices and procedures within the service area and the OPD Pathway.
- To help manage the workloads of Band 6 and 5 clinical practitioners and support workers, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of multidisciplinary staff.
- To be involved in service development projects as agreed by the professional lead.
IT responsibilities:
- To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and clinical record purposes. To be familiar with word processing and database packages; to use appropriate computer software to develop and createclinical or other service-related reports or documents.
Research and service evaluation:
- To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To initiate, implement and contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, to help develop and improve services to all service users.
- To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorates and Trusts operational policies and services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical:
- To provide expert advice, consultation, formulation, assessment and treatment for individuals with serious offending histories, personality difficulties and substance misuse needs, and for staff working with these individuals.
- To provide specialist psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- To formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the person on probations problems,and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
- To provide specialist advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
- To plan, organise and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers andinvolved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
- To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmentalprocesses that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with people on probation whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within theOPD Pathway.
- To develop specialist desistance and stabilisation programmes for individual service users with highly complex presentations, including substance misuse issues, and highly specialised advice for multi-agency professionals within the OPD Pathway.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for people on probation in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and riskmanagement.
- To take responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychosocial interventions and care/pathway plans including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in thenetwork of care.
- To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to people on probations formulations and pathway plans.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychosocially-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of people on probation within the OPD Pathway and tomonitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.
Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular supervision and line management from a psychologist.
- To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
- To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-agency staff and relevant professional practice as appropriate.
- To provide supervision and line management to clinical practitioners within the team.
- To provide supervision to students on placement from the relevant professional practice area.
- To co-produce and co-deliver workforce development interventions with service users within and beyond the postholders principal service area.
- To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
Management, recruitment and service development:
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies andservices, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To contribute to the development of the services governance and strategy, and to implement and monitor policy and practice initiatives as required.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychosocial and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To implement policy and propose changes to practices and procedures within the service area and the OPD Pathway.
- To help manage the workloads of Band 6 and 5 clinical practitioners and support workers, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of multidisciplinary staff.
- To be involved in service development projects as agreed by the professional lead.
IT responsibilities:
- To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and clinical record purposes. To be familiar with word processing and database packages; to use appropriate computer software to develop and createclinical or other service-related reports or documents.
Research and service evaluation:
- To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To initiate, implement and contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, to help develop and improve services to all service users.
- To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorates and Trusts operational policies and services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or first level qualification in occupational therapy, social work, or equivalent
- Professional registration with the relevant regulatory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professional's Council (HPC/HCPC)
- Level 3 Award or Certificate in Working with Substance Misuse, or equivalent accredited qualification
Desirable
- Received training (either formally or through experience) in risk assessments and/or formulation
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a substance misuse service or with service users with substance misuse difficulties
- Experience of working with service users with complex needs and challenging behaviour, including personality difficulties
Desirable
- Experience of working within a forensic setting or with a forensic population
- Experience of working in diverse inner-city areas
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Skills
Essential
- Skills in planning, organising and delivering psychosocial interventions and activities
- Ability to work under pressure and to deal with emergency situations/crises/highly emotional situations safely and effectively
- Skills in effective management of conflict, anger, rejection and other common difficulties presented by service users with personality disorder
Desirable
- Skills in providing low intensity psychological interventions
- Ability to give specialist advice on the recovery/desistance process with respect to people with serious offence histories and personality disorder
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or first level qualification in occupational therapy, social work, or equivalent
- Professional registration with the relevant regulatory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professional's Council (HPC/HCPC)
- Level 3 Award or Certificate in Working with Substance Misuse, or equivalent accredited qualification
Desirable
- Received training (either formally or through experience) in risk assessments and/or formulation
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a substance misuse service or with service users with substance misuse difficulties
- Experience of working with service users with complex needs and challenging behaviour, including personality difficulties
Desirable
- Experience of working within a forensic setting or with a forensic population
- Experience of working in diverse inner-city areas
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Skills
Essential
- Skills in planning, organising and delivering psychosocial interventions and activities
- Ability to work under pressure and to deal with emergency situations/crises/highly emotional situations safely and effectively
- Skills in effective management of conflict, anger, rejection and other common difficulties presented by service users with personality disorder
Desirable
- Skills in providing low intensity psychological interventions
- Ability to give specialist advice on the recovery/desistance process with respect to people with serious offence histories and personality disorder
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
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).
