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Job summary

Main area
Community Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
346-NYA-100-24
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Huntington House
Town
York
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
07/08/2024

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Senior Practitioner - Early Intervention in Psychosis

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

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health clinician to work with the York and Selby Early Intervention in Psychosis service. This is a 12 month post to cover maternity leave. 

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside an experienced and committed multidisciplinary team delivering care coordination and psychosocial interventions to people aged 14-65 experiencing a first episode of psychosis. EIP teams typically have smaller caseloads than core mental health services enabling our care coordinators to work with a high degree of autonomy and flexibility. 

You will have access to individual and group clinical, caseload and management supervision and appraisal. We also offer bespoke psychologically informed consultations for complex patients and families. 

Working for our organisation

The team take pride in the compassionate and caring culture with shared responsibility for delivering high quality patient care. We work hard to look after ourselves and each other. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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)
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership or management qualification
  • Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

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.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • 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.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mike Walker
Job title
Clinical Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01904 464850
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