Job summary
Employer heading
Community Senior Practitioner - Family Intervention
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job overview
The North Tees Early Intervention for Psychosis Service (EIP) is looking to recruit a permanent Band 6, Community Senior Practitioner - Family Intervention. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing family interventions team working across Stockton and Hartlepool EIP teams. You will be an innovative, creative, practitioner, wanting to develop yourself but also able to contribute to the on-going development of Family Interventions within the EIP service.
Nursing applicants should already hold NMC registration. Please note: Newly qualified Nurses or those due to qualify will be recruited via a separate process.
Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
Main duties of the job
* To undertake psychoeducation-based family interventions with families of clients within the Stockton and Hartlepool EIP teams
*To work with the systemic family therapists in the team in relation to the development of family work within the teams
*To support the carer support workers with their work in relation to carers
* To be part of the MDT as appropriate
* To assess and manage risk as required
* To record information as appropriate on to the appropriate systems
Working for our organisation
North Tees EIP team is made up of two teams, Stockton and Hartlepool. Both teams are friendly and welcoming and offer an opportunity to undertake innovative and creative work which makes a difference to people's lives. Family work is a vital part of the work undertaken in EIP teams. You will be given the opportunity to work with families using a recognised psychoeducational model to offer support to families or networks where there is someone experiencing distress and on a first episode psychosis pathway. You will also be working with identified carers with a carers educational support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful post holder will make up part of the family intervention and carers team with the North Tees EIP team. Their responsibility will be to offer and deliver family intervention to families/support networks of the people within our service. The post holder will be expected to record information as needed. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously as well as within part of a team.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person specification
qualifications,
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing 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
- Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Qualification in a family intervention ,systemic family interventions (2)
- Leadership or management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Leadership or management experience
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to work flexibly to support colleagues across two teams (2)
- Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
- Write reports
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
- Use approved breakaway techniques
Desirable criteria
- Competency in venepuncture
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alix Bowler
- Job title
- highly specialist psychological therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07505460551
- Additional information
available 9-5 Monday to Friday
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