Structured Clinical Management Practitioner inBarnet and Enfield inBarnet and Enfield PUBLISHED
TUE 3 DEC 2024
The SCM Practitioner will collaborate with Core Team key workers to assess emotional and psychological needs of patients, particularly those with personality disorder traits. Responsibilities include implementing SCM treatment plans, conducting risk assessments, and offering consultation to colleagues within the SCM framework. The role requires autonomy and adherence to professional guidelines, with a focus on providing comprehensive care across integrated teams and geographical areas. Regular supervision and access to further SCM training will be provided.
The SCM Practitioner role offers the opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health practitioner to further develop their skills in offering an evidenced-based intervention, Structured Clinical Management (SCM), for service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) in the Core Teams in Barnet and Enfield. The post holder will work alongside another SCM Practitioner, the Senior SCM Practitioner, and colleagues in the Core Team to provide SCM assessment, formulation, group and individual intervention to a caseload of service users. You will have access to SCM training and receive regular group and individual supervision.
The successful candidate, who will be joining this new pathway, will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Associate Psychologist). Additional training in SCM, DBT or MBT would be desirable. In addition, the ideal candidate will have worked with services users with CEN offering assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention.
The role will require the post holder to:
Collaboratively working alongside Core Team Key workers to support identification and undertake assessment of emotional and psychological needs of patients within the Core Teams who have a confirmed or suspected personality disorder diagnosis and personality disorder traits which may not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
Formulate and implement appropriate SCM treatment plans with the support of colleagues in the SCM Pathway
Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service
Offer consultation and support to Core Team colleagues within an SCM framework
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures in close collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients within the formal therapy setting as well as on the telephone or occasionally on domiciliary visits, and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects
To be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams.
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