Job overview
As part of Community Transformation, a Complex Emotional Needs Pathway has been developed across the four areas of the Black Country. IT focuses on improving experiences and outcomes for our service users who primarily attract a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. They frequently present with histories of severe trauma and secondary diagnoses add to their complexity. Generic services struggle to engage them, and they present with high risk, leading to repeated and sometimes long term use of urgent care and in-patient services. We have designed an innovative and psychologically lead virtual multi-disciplinary team, who will both work closely together but also be fully integrated into the local CMHTs. We are not a 'Functional' team, who accept referrals, but offer 'WRAP' around care boosting the provision to these service users. We will also have close links with our four DBT Teams, the Community Enablement and Recovery Team, Assertive Outreach Practitioners and the Recovery College. We are looking to recruit a new Band 7 CEN Clinical Lead to cover the Wolverhampton locality. This is a fantastic opportunity for a registered mental health professional (CPN,OT or Social Worker) to work at a senior level, be involved in service development, leadership whilst sustaining a strong clinical focus.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for targeting and identifying highly complex and risky service users. You will be responsible for for developing high quality, detailed and formulation driven risk management and care plans. your work will be a combination of engaging with service users themselves and leading and supporting the B6 CEN Practioners and Recovery Workers. you will liaise tightly with CMHT colleagues to ensure that positive risk management strategies and care plans are carried out with support of our Key Workers. The intensity and frequency of contacts is likely to be high and therefore caseloads low. You will have the opportunity to focus creatively on individuals on your caseload, both receiving and offering supervision and reflective practice and training. You will be expected to engage in regular supervision and be able to tolerate and work with feedback. You will be expected to take up training opportunities in relevant approaches, such as Structured Clinical Management, CBT or DBT. You will be an essential member of the CEN Pathway leadership team, focusing on developing operational, clinical and strategic direction of this new Pathway. In the future you may be asked to contribute to out of hours working to meet the needs of clients, but this would be realistic and done with agreement, but currently this role is Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Practice and Clinical Leadership - You will be responsible for targeting high frequency users who have CENs, re-assessing their needs from a Bio-Psycho-Social perspective, working alongside psychologists in formulating their difficulties and developing bespoke and complex risk and safety plans. You will engage service users in 'assertive stabilisation' initially which will often mean being appropriately responsive to crisis situations and tightly liaising with the wider CMHT to ensure a consistent agreed response. You will also be supporting CEN B6 Practitioners, CMHT staff and CEN Recovery Workers engage with service users according to the care plan thus ensuring progress and goals are achieved.
Team Working - you will be part of a Trust wide 'virtual' CEN Team but also be integrated into the two CMHTs in your local area. You will attend MDTs, professionals meetings and case conferences as required, including in-reach to hospital. You will need good communication and people skills and be able to work creatively on improving interface issues whilst managing the pressures this can bring.
Training and Supervision - as part of your job plan you will be required to offer supervision to staff, reflective practice and Trust wide training to support the upskilling of staff in CEN specific ways or working, particularly in addressing stigma.
Leadership & Service Development - you will be integral to the continued development of this new Pathway. This will involve being attuned to the difficulties on the ground, dealing with any complaints, developing and reporting evaluation results, reporting back and being fully involved in growth of the Pathway, in terms of it's clinical and strategic focus.
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