Specialist Clinical Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• To provide services key activities: psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice, the handling of highly complex information (from a variety of sources).
• To organise and provide person-centred and culturally appropriate activities for service users within the principles of the OPD Pathway. To formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management.
• To support a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, carers and involved professionals.

• To take a lead on networking with community providers and organisations which work with service users who have been convicted of serious offences, of a violent and/or sexual nature, and may have been assessed as high risk of harm and/or offending.

• To support service users in engaging with community organisations and overcoming any barriers to access.

To work as a team member to deliver interventions under supervision and direction, using principles of desistance to support service users to achieve/maintain a stable and socially-included life in the community.

To work independently, undertaking outreach work i.e. accompanying service users to meetings with community organisations to support them to engage meaningfully. Visiting community organisations to consider whether they are suited to work with our service users in terms of managing risk and upholding the principles of I&I.

To engage with service users to identify their interests, and needs, and create opportunities for them to fulfil these i.e. training courses, workshops, community activities.

To support service users to engage in social, recreational and occupational activities.

To use psychologically-informed individual and group work approaches to enhance engagement and involvement..

To use a trauma informed approach with the understanding that we are working with people who are likely to have significant trauma histories. And, that they too may be traumatized by the trauma they have inflicted on others.

To support service users to engage in activities consistent with their psychological formulation and consideration of risk, to assist them in working towards their personal goals and development.

To demonstrate an awareness of principles of psychological formulation as used within the OPD Pathway and to apply these to the support and engagement of service users under the guidance and supervision of qualified staff.

To assess and manage risk within the Hub setting and use supervision and guidance from qualified staff to ensure safety within a desistance-orientated framework; to communicate all relevant risk-related observations and information to qualified staff.

To work in partnership with other agencies, for example supporting service user engagement with third sector organisations.

To be aware of and sensitive to the safeguarding needs of children and adults, and knowledgeable both about potential indicators of concern and about what to do if there is a concern.

To provide information about the Hub and its programme to service users and professionals as required.

• Support and scaffold co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
• 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 undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To provide psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulations and pathway plans.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of service users
• To monitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• professional qualification/degree

Desirable

• Professional development in models of social inclusion and user empowerment

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Networking and building effective relationships with community organisations

Desirable

• Experience of service users with personality difficulties.
• Experience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies

Skills

Essential

• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics;
• Ability to establish rapport and appropriate therapeutic relationships with service users
• Ability to manage emotionally challenging situations or discussions appropriately.
• Commitment to confidentiality, professional boundaries, and safeguarding procedures.

Specific

Essential

• Flexibility in working and willingness to travel

Desirable

• Personal experience of psychosocial adversity

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

London Pathway Partnership

7 Holyrood St

London

SE13 6EZ

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)