Mental Health Clinician

Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.

Are you interested in improving care for people with a diagnosis, or traits of, personality disorder/Complex Emotional Difficulties (CED)?

Are you a registered mental health clinician?

Do you like to innovate and lead on new developments?

Do you believe in working in partnership with people with Lived Experience?

If so, this post could be for you.

As a recent addition to the CED care pathway, the Service User Network (SUN) provides face-to-face and online peer support groups for those who experience CED. The service model promotes open access and inclusivity, and is embedded in local communities.

It is an innovative and exciting development in local mental health care, with an enthusiastic, creative and supportive team.

Groups are run with Lived Experience Facilitators.

A combination of working from home, from community venues across Kent and Medway and The Brenchley Unit

Main duties of the job

• The provision of SUN groups co-facilitated with Lived Experience facilitators across Kent and Medway, both in person and online including evenings and weekends.
• Support service users to develop Resource and Support Plans (RASPs).
• Support the development of a group culture that is in keeping with the SUN and Therapeutic Community ethos of support, inclusion, safety, and responsibility.
• Support the team to develop the service including co-production with service users.
• Complete a variety of administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running and evaluation of the service
• Work in collaboration with other colleagues and service in the pathway providing services to people who are experiencing complex mental health problems including escalation for additional intervention if required.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for details of the job and the responsibilities.

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant qualification and registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working with people with personality disorder
• Facilitating groups within a mental health setting
• Risk assessment and management of people with personality disorder
• Team working

Desirable criteria

• Experience of reflective practice

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Workload management
• Good IT skills
• Audit / evaluation

Important Information:
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter
The trust takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.

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