Job summary
The Croydon Personality Disorder Service is looking to recruit a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to the post of Croydon SUN Lead and Specialist Therapist. This is a one year contract providing cover for a member of the team whilst on maternity leave.
You will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and will have worked in a multi-disciplinary mental health team.
We are looking for staff with a commitment to working with people with personality disorders along with the confidence and skill to work effectively in therapeutic groups.
You will be based in the psychotherapy day hospital, The Touchstone Centre, on the Bethlem Royal Hospital site and provide leadership and support to the SUN facilitators, and also support to the team's consultant psychiatrist, who is clinical lead for the SUN project. You will also go out into the Croydon community to facilitate our SUN project groups, as well as facilitate practically focussed groups as part of the MBT treatment programmes, as well as key working individual patients on these programmes, and act as MBT individual therapist for patients also.
Croydon and surrounding areas are great locations for family lives with close proximities to Croydon and Bromley shopping centres, active communities and affordable housing with easy access to central London.
Main duties of the job
We provide specialist, evidence-based, psychotherapeutic day hospital treatment for working-age people with moderate to severe personality disorders. We also run the SUN project, a coping skills development and crisis support group 3 times a week in central Croydon to people with or without a diagnosis of personality disorders. You will work within our team of psychotherapists, doctors, specialist community psychiatric nurses and care co-ordinators, providing leadership to the SUN facilitators.
About us
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
Benefits
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance. Flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
- Care lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
- Our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites.
- NHS discounts. With discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Staff restaurants
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
Provide ongoing supervision and leadership of the Croydon Sun Project
- To facilitate Sun groups.
- To publicise Sun to mental health community and inpatient teams.
- To deliver individual and group mentalization based treatment (MBT) including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as a link worker with other mental health teams, consulting to staff and co-facilitating groups in primary and secondary-care multidisciplinary teams.
- To work as an autonomous professional within NMC/HCPC/SWE/BPC/UKCP/BACP guidelines and codes of conduct (depending on which the person is registered with), and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
Provide ongoing supervision and leadership of the Croydon Sun Project
- To facilitate Sun groups.
- To publicise Sun to mental health community and inpatient teams.
- To deliver individual and group mentalization based treatment (MBT) including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as a link worker with other mental health teams, consulting to staff and co-facilitating groups in primary and secondary-care multidisciplinary teams.
- To work as an autonomous professional within NMC/HCPC/SWE/BPC/UKCP/BACP guidelines and codes of conduct (depending on which the person is registered with), and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Hold a valid professional registration either as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Practitioner Psychologist. Registered with NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
- Hold a valid professional registration either as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or PractitAnd /Or Entry-level qualification in Psychotherapy (Master's degree plus supervised practice) and Registered with the HCPC/BPC/UKCP/BACP as Psychotherapist (psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic/ integrative).
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the NMC/BPC/HCPC/SWE/UKCP/BACP depending on registering body.
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in psychological approaches to personality disorder, including MBT Basic Level training delivered by an Anna Freud Centre Approved trainer.
Qualifications
Desirable
- MBT practitioner status registered with the BPC
- Sun Project Competence to Trainer level
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence-base for psychotherapy for people with borderline personality disorder, specifically mentalization based treatment.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult safeguarding, and equalities.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
Desirable
- Structured clinical management training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of receiving professional supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature particularly personality disorder.
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects.
Desirable
- Provision of supervision to a range of mental health practitioners
- The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
Skills
Essential
- To deliver psychotherapy across cultural and other differences.
- To select and administer specialist psychotherapeutic assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews.
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self, including ability to manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of physical interventions as prescribed by Trust policies.
General
Essential
- Able to work on a Saturday morning to facilitate the Sun Project on a rota basis.
Desirable
- Car owner and driver with business use insurance.
- A personal therapy of sufficient intensity, depth and duration to be able to work psychotherapeutically with difficult and demanding cases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Hold a valid professional registration either as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Practitioner Psychologist. Registered with NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
- Hold a valid professional registration either as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Mental Health Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or PractitAnd /Or Entry-level qualification in Psychotherapy (Master's degree plus supervised practice) and Registered with the HCPC/BPC/UKCP/BACP as Psychotherapist (psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic/ integrative).
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the NMC/BPC/HCPC/SWE/UKCP/BACP depending on registering body.
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in psychological approaches to personality disorder, including MBT Basic Level training delivered by an Anna Freud Centre Approved trainer.
Qualifications
Desirable
- MBT practitioner status registered with the BPC
- Sun Project Competence to Trainer level
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence-base for psychotherapy for people with borderline personality disorder, specifically mentalization based treatment.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult safeguarding, and equalities.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
Desirable
- Structured clinical management training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of receiving professional supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature particularly personality disorder.
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects.
Desirable
- Provision of supervision to a range of mental health practitioners
- The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
Skills
Essential
- To deliver psychotherapy across cultural and other differences.
- To select and administer specialist psychotherapeutic assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews.
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self, including ability to manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of physical interventions as prescribed by Trust policies.
General
Essential
- Able to work on a Saturday morning to facilitate the Sun Project on a rota basis.
Desirable
- Car owner and driver with business use insurance.
- A personal therapy of sufficient intensity, depth and duration to be able to work psychotherapeutically with difficult and demanding cases
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Touchstone Centre, Alexandra House, Ground Floor, Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham
BR3 3BX
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
