Senior Clinical Nurse Therapist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; March; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the outreach lead.

To manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and consistent with agreed team approaches. This will be at least 50% of your role.

To have significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours that come from high levels of distress.

To have close working relationships with our partnership providers and the wider prison, and to have a good understanding and knowledge of the client group and be able to communicate the needs of the Service User group within appropriate meetings and forums.

To hold a clinical caseload and provide individual and group therapy.

To communicate the results of assessment and interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team including non-clinical staff, and to do so in a way that is accessible to all.

To communicate effectively, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, within difficult situations such as to a service user who may be presenting as hostile and antagonistic and not wanting to receive information.

To develop formulations and treatment plans for the formal interventions and/or management of a resident's mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the Fen's.

To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understanding of the resident from a psychological perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Nurse/RMN or Learning Disability
• Specific therapeutic training, CBT, DBT, EMDR, Schema, Sensorimotor psychotherapy or other Psychological approaches

Desirable criteria

• Post registration training in risk management tools/techniques.
• Graduate at master's level or studying towards this level
• Relevant Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience in senior nursing positions, to include significant leadership functions.
• Experience of managing a nursing service.
• Change management experience.
• Experience of working in secure / forensic conditions
• Experience of holding a clinical caseload.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of practice development by extensive experience of supervision and teaching.
• Experience of influencing the advancement of mental health care.
• Experience of working with service users diagnosed with learning disability and or neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Lived experience of mental health challenges.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills.
• Leadership skills e.g. can exercise leadership to support and inspire colleagues.
• In depth knowledge and skill related to a particular therapeutic intervention such as CBT, DBT, family work and psychosocial interventions.
• IT literate.
• Ability to undertake assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment plans.
• The ability to supervise and participate in providing teaching and training to other staff.
• Ability to prioritise work demands and be flexible
• Proven skills in undertaking risk assessments and management plans.
• Skill in caseload management at both an individual and team level
• Able to work as an independent reflective practitioner
• A commitment to the role of health promotion and education with the client group.

Desirable criteria

• An understanding and commitment to the principles of recovery and social inclusion

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Theory and concepts associated with mental health and personality disorder and their application.
• Knowledge of physical healthcare needs.
• Commitment to and understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation.
• Good knowledge of the legislation relating to care including - Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Act, Care Act, Children's Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act and the General Data Protection Regulations
• Knowledge of relevant NICE guidance.

Desirable criteria

• Attachment theory and therapies aimed at addressing trauma related difficulties.
• Knowledge of the role of the MOJ and other criminal justice agencies.

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies (HMPPS) to promote effective team working with clients.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Emotionally robust.
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress
• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
• Motivated towards personal and professional development.

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.