Job summary
If you are an enthusiastic and a compassionate MPRC who is looking for a job with a right balance of challenge and flexibility, look no further than our service at 78 Crawley Rd, Horsham.
You will be working alongside a group of experienced and highly motivated clinicians who will support you wherever you are in your career journey while we focus on the rehabilitation pathway for our patients.
The post holder will participate in the Leadership Team and will be working collaboratively with the Consultant, and managers to achieve the most efficient and effective use of resources.
This post will help to develop better provision and capacity for Rehabilitation Services within SPFT while allowing access to the Forensic Healthcare Service (FHS). There is a strong focus on working in partnership with families at this service. We include patients in planning their care, and we value and embrace their unique qualities.
Main duties of the job
The unit comprises 8 inpatient beds in a purpose-built area, along with 16 individual flats.
This allows patients to move along the rehabilitation pathway.
The post holder will:
- Have autonomy to make decisions to improve patient outcomes. Partnership working withrehabilitation services, the Rehab hub and SAM Team.
- There may also be necessity to work with colleagues in Probation, Police, Court, Social Services, voluntary organisations/agencies to assist in the management of mentally disordered offenders who have rehabilitation needs.
- Work with colleagues in adult mental health services.
- Assess patients who are referred to 78.
- Participate in weekly referrals meeting/rehab hub calls
- Clinical leadership role within the multidisciplinary team and across the service as a whole and work with colleagues and management to ensure optimal service delivery.
- Participate in business planning for the locality and, as appropriate, contribution to the broader strategic and planning work of the Trust.
- Work alongside the team helping to lead the improvement of the quality of care within the team and contribute to improving quality across the system.
- The post holder will be encouraged to contribute to other relevant management activities within the Directorate and Trust. This might include participation in clinical governance activities, relevant working groups
About us
At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities forflexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
If you haven't thought about living in Sussexbefore then you should consider the following:
- Journey from the coast to the countryside in minutes
- Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park!
- Embrace taking time to discover all the miles of scenic coastline, including Hastings, Bexhill on Sea and Eastbourne
- Easy access to airports - Gatwick and Heathrow are both within 90 minutes of the county, providing links to Europe and beyond
- Brighton and Hove or London are within easy reach via local and national bus routes and national mainline stations
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, service improvement
- See attached job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, service improvement
- See attached job description
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to Masters level
- Formal training in supervision
- AC approval
- Attendance on leadership training
- Training in a specialist area of expertise
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an autonomous qualified practitioner at consultant level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of taking full clinical responsibility for clients with a range of serious mental health problems within the context of multidisciplinary care.
- Experience of leading a clinical team
- Experience of offering consultation to a range of health professionals in respect of psychological formulation and care
- Experience of representing the profession in local planning and policy development.
- Experience of providing teaching, training and supervision to trainees qualified professionals
- Evidence of continuing professional development in line with consultant level practice
- Experience of organisational change management and fostering a culture of patient safety
- Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance and relate
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to Masters level
- Formal training in supervision
- AC approval
- Attendance on leadership training
- Training in a specialist area of expertise
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an autonomous qualified practitioner at consultant level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of taking full clinical responsibility for clients with a range of serious mental health problems within the context of multidisciplinary care.
- Experience of leading a clinical team
- Experience of offering consultation to a range of health professionals in respect of psychological formulation and care
- Experience of representing the profession in local planning and policy development.
- Experience of providing teaching, training and supervision to trainees qualified professionals
- Evidence of continuing professional development in line with consultant level practice
- Experience of organisational change management and fostering a culture of patient safety
- Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance and relate
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).
