Job Summary
We are currently expanding our service to meet the needs of a wider population and are looking for community mental health practitioners to join the team.
The posts available would be located across South Staffordshire, including Lichfield and Tamworth, Burton and Uttoxeter, Cannock, and Stafford and Seisdon.
The Intensive Life Skills Pathway is a multi-disciplinary mental health team providing assessment and intervention for adults experiencing complex emotional difficulties across East and West Staffordshire as part of the Adult Mental Health Service.
Main duties of the job
- You will be responsible for the holistic assessment and formulation of needs of a defined client group.
- Responsible for care coordination of an identified caseload.
- Deliver prescribed interventions on an individual and group basis with service users who have difficulty regulating their emotions and utilise self-harm to manage high levels of distress. The interventions will be focussed on assisting the person to identify and achieve their agreed goals, utilising a Structured Clinical Management model focusing on problem solving, managing emotions, getting along with others and managing impulsivity.
- You will also be expected to be available for consultation, support and clinical supervision to other health professionals working within the Community Mental Health Pathway Service and other areas of the Trust where identified as appropriate.
- Delivering interventions to this caseload and working within a multi-disciplinary pathway will require advanced communication and interpersonal skills.
- You will be required to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive, and contentious information regarding assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients with complex mental health presentations.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following in CMHN, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Psychological Therapy
- Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses and training relevant to people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability
Desirable
- Qualification in psychological interventions such as DBT, SCM, CBT, EMDR, MBT, relevant to a client group with complex mental health needs
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a client group who present with difficulties relating to emotional dysregulation, high risk challenging and chaotic behaviour, highly complex needs relating to trauma
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services
- Experience of working with people engaging in high risk behaviours and self harm
Desirable
- Experience of working within a structured therapeutic model individually and in group settings
- Experience of facilitating psycho-educational and/or skills based groups
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).
Closing Date: 28 January 2025
