Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

at  Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical work: Working compassionately and therapeutically with service users presenting with complex difficulties/complex engagement. Supporting the planning and undertaking the delivery of therapeutic interventions/treatments as indicated from assessment, using evidence-based treatments. Engage in training to support delivery of specialist 1:1 and group treatment. Ensure use of clinical supervision to support risk management, adherence to boundaried working, supporting skills to contain and manage high levels of emotional distress and disturbance in self and others and ensure own wellbeing etc.
Service development: Support development of staff within the team through delivery of training and access to clinical supervision. Engaging with reviews, evaluations of the service/treatment, and supporting gathering of data (feedback, outcome measures etc.). Support of a wide mix of staff/clinical skill: To attend individual and group clinical supervision and provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff to meet their educational and development needs. Support the provision of an effective learning environment in the service.
Participate in the teaching and mentoring of students and other professionals from healthcare professions and other agencies. Provide supervision and consultation to other staff groups, across the Trust and in Primary Care Health Services, Social Services and Voluntary Agencies. Appointed applicants will have access to robust clinical and managerial supervision and career development opportunities. The service is committed to ensuring the staff in the team are well equipped to work with the complex service users accessing the service and so training is well supported and there is a range of access to robust supervision

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