SCM Link Worker

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Post: Structured Clinical Management Link Worker

Band: 7

Responsible to: SCM Operational Lead

Main Contacts: Internal or external contacts

Job Summary

You will work as part of the CMHT Personality Disorder Team as a personality disorder link worker providing senior presence and expertise. Your role will be to work with people with complex personality difficulties in the service who are not yet ready to engage with structured clinical management or therapy, presenting in chaos and with highly risky behaviours. You will act as case holder and actively liaise with other agencies involved to ensure a consistent and multi- agency clinically appropriate approach to the persons care.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide psychological formulation, mental health and risk assessments for service users referred to the service with complex and highly complex needs

• To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in giving specialist advice to colleagues and other agencies on approaches to service users with personality disorder

• To act as case holder for a group of people with complex and highly complex personality disorder working to best practice guidelines and in a psychologically minded trauma informed way.

• To ensure that service users social care needs are assessed under the Care Act and addressed according to locality/ service procedures

• To work with service users and carers collaboratively as equal partners in care.

• To demonstrate high level communication skills to facilitate effective communication even where there are barriers to understanding and utilise highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills in highly emotive, antagonistic situations

• To develop in collaboration with the service user care plans and safety plans designed to provide a personalised approach to managing risk behaviours and suicidality in the context of personality disorder maximising choice and control for the service user

• To lead on multi-agency approaches to care with other health and social care providers, the Police and ambulance service to provide a consistent approach to and understanding of the service user needs

• To lead/ contribute to group therapeutic approaches with this client group using a structured clinical management framework

• To prepare/ encourage service users towards specific treatment approaches such as SCM or therapy as appropriate

• To provide therapeutic 1-1 sessions for service users working to specified agreed goals and outcomes

• To make onward referrals and signpost to other services including VCSE and neighbourhood services to enable wrap around, holistic support for service users undergoing treatment to meet a broad range of need

• To provide personality disorder specific training for teams and services as required

• To delegate for team manager when required and represent the team/ service when required to do so at other forums

• To provide specialist supervision to other practitioners as directed

• In conjunction with team managers, other practitioners, service users and carers to develop and maintain the SOP for the service

• To take a QI approach to continuously develop the service in conjunction with the team, service users and carers

• To lead on investigations, IRs and complaints responses as directed and ensure any learning is embedded in changes to practice

• To be involved in team recruitment and selection as directed

• To be involved in the training, preceptorship and development of junior staff members and learners and students from all disciplines

• To assist team managers in the appropriate use of resources in the team and ensuring the team budget is balanced

• Participate in data collection, meeting team KPIs, audit and research as necessary and directed.

This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Proven experience of working with people with complex personality disorder
• Significant post registration experience working at band 6 level
• Proven experience of completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and risk management plans without direct supervision
• Experience of leading MDT and multi- agency working coordinated around service users
• Significant experience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm
• Experience of leading multiagency safeguarding processes/ investigations
• Experience of giving expert advice and supervising the work of professionally qualified staff

Desirable

• Previous experience of working to a model of SCM
• Care coordination of people with personality disorder
• Completing Care Act assessments and commissioning processes

Knowledge

Essential

• NICE Guidelines and current best practice in the management of people with personality disorder
• Specialist knowledge of approaches to working with this service user group
• STORM principles
• Current best practice in approaches to management of self -harm
• Trauma informed approaches to care
• Psychological formulation and approaches to working with this client group
• Care Act and social care processes for commissioning

Desirable

• SCM principles

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work collaboratively with services users 1-1 and in group settings
• Ability to negotiate and provide consistency of approaches to care
• Evidence of ability to provide specialist mental health assessment and risk assessment/ management and be accountable for decision making
• Evidence of ability to manage a complex caseload without direct supervision
• Ability to provide therapeutic interventions for this client group
• Ability to communicate effectively and provide coherent reports and documentation according to Trust documentation standards
• Ability to lead collaborative approaches to care planning with other agencies providing specialist advice and expertise to colleagues
• Ability to manage own emotions, and those of others in significantly challenging situations
• Ability to plan own workload and direct the work of others and prioritise without direct supervision
• Ability to plan own workload and direct the work of others and prioritise without direct supervision

Desirable

• Ability to undertake Care Act assessments and commissioning processes

Work Related Circumstances

Essential

• A keen interest in working with this client group
• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Essential

Essential

• Professional qualification in health or social care (Nursing, allied health professional, social work)
• Current registration with professional body
• Masters level education or equivalent experience/ training
• Masters level education or equivalent experience/ training

Desirable

• Training in Structured Clinical Management
• Therapy qualification
• Mentorship qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).