Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health nurse, occupational therapist or social worker to join the York and Selby Early Intervention in Psychosis team as a senior practitioner. You will be joining a high performing, committed and supportive team working with people aged 14-65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Our senior practitioners manage a caseload of up 20 delivering psychologically informed interventions and case management alongside a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapist, CBT therapists, clinical specialists and occupational therapists. You will also support the assessment and duty function of the team.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for your own caseload including care planning, safety planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions, which will include working with families and carers. EIP teams across the Trust offer a comprehensive package of training to all clinicians to enable you to deliver the highest standard of care. You will also be trained to carry out specialist assessments for people with a first episode psychosis. Support and supervision is built into the working week and you will have access to clinical, managerial and caseload supervision as well as more specialist offers such as a reflecting teams space supported by our dedicated family therapist.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body
- Evidence of continued professional development
- For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
- Recognised sign off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent (willing to achieve)
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 or equivalent
Desirable
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate
- Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Quality improvement activities
Desirable
- Leadership or management experience
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Desirable
- The Trust’s Quality Improvement Systems
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: 07 April 2025
