Specialist Clinical Practitioner
Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The postholder will provide a specialist service to the pan-London Inclusion and Involvement team, working together with NPS colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation under the service. The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users to assist their effective desistance, with a focus on specialist networking with community providers to improve social and employment opportunities for people who have significant barriers to reintegrating with society after prison.
The postholder will take a proactive role in supporting bespoke development plans with service users and proactively developing links to community organisations based on the individuals needs. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP’s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
Main duties of the job- To work closely with the Inclusion and Involvement team in helping service users to access sources of support, including practical assistance with community resettlement, social support and meaningful occupation.
- To contribute to the day to day running of Pathway Hubs in north and central London, and to the development of new community engagement projects.
- To contribute to the development and facilitation of Hub programmes offering social, creative and skills-based activities within an overall desistance framework.
- To contribute to the evaluation of services as appropriate.
- To support service user involvement projects where necessary.
- To take a lead on networking with community providers and organisations to build meaningful relationships, to enable service users to access individualised support based on their specific needs.
- To support professionals and service users to connect with community resources.
- To hold and maintain a database of potential community options/partners.
- To support the Social Inclusion Service Lead in arranging our partner markets which bring community organisations together to share with service users what they offer and how to access their service. T
- The postholder will work within policies and procedures of LPP’s services, and the overarching objectives of LPP and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical- To provide service’s 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 criteria- professional qualification/degree
- Professional development in models of social inclusion and user empowerment
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Networking and building effective relationships with community organisations
- Experience of service users with personality difficulties.
- Experience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies
Skills
Essential criteria- 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 criteria- Flexibility in working and willingness to travel
- Personal experience of psychosocial adversity
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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