An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking and motivated senior mental health practitioner to work within Camden Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team.
The Team provides health and social care to a dults experiencing a F irst E pisode of Ps ychosis. The post holder will carry a caseload of the most complex service users in the service, in addition to acting as the lead specialist nurse, OT or Social worker depending on professional background, providing senior management leadership and consultation to other professionals in the team. As such, the post holder will be required to have significant clinical skill s and knowledge underpinned by experience, and specialist training / academic study , with a good understanding of managing staff/teams (these skills can be developed).
Camden and EI Ps team is a well-established, multi-disciplinary teams serving the culturally diverse London Borough of Camden . The team promote a full symptomatic and social recovery, with an emphasis on assisting service users into valued education and occupation. The teams also have a strong research ethic, with the team participating in several multi-centre studies. Camden Early Intervention Service works with First Episode Psychosis(FEP) clients aged 14-65.
To offer early assessment, diagnosis and treatment of FEP.
To offer person centred, individual, culturally sensitive care, with an emphasis on increasing stability, skill development and developing social roles.
To maximise both symptomatic and social recovery after a first episode of psychosis through effective engagement with service users.
To minimise the service user's first experiences of service contact being disconcerting or stigmatising.
To support and educate carers and involve them as fully as possible in service users' care.
In addition to working clinically within the EIP service, it is envisaged that the post holder would dedicate approximately 20% of their time to leading on service wide professional development, providing specialist education and training to professionals within their borough services. As such the post holder will be required to be knowledgeable of current national policy and best practice guidelines in EIP and will work closely with team managers to ensure care is delivered in accordance with these.
The post holder will formulate and support others to formulate profession specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans that utilise health and social care resources to support the needs of service users in identifying and reducing treatment delays at the onset of psychosis and promoting recovery by reducing the probability of relapse following a first episode of psychosis.
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of
North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff
and visitors.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers
programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and
wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
We are kind
We are respectful
We work together
We keep things simple
We empower
We are proudly diverse
i) To lead on the delivery of professional background specific interventions to support physical and mental wellbeing across the EIPs teams.
ii) Lead on the delivery of a professional practice forum for defined services.
iii) Plan and organise specialist education, training, and support of staff to maintain professional registration within the borough.
iv) To work with other managers and lead practitioners to identify professional training pathways for staff across the division.
v) To participate in the recruitment of senior clinical posts as required by the service.
vi) To review best practice guidelines and to lead on the translation of changes to national guidelines into local practice.
vii) To work with the Team Manager and Head of Service to design and deliver and governance processes within the teams as appropriate. This may include the development of policies and procedures and leading on the defining and maintaining practice standards.
viii) To identify and manage clinical and systemic risks, placing as appropriate to divisional risk register.
ii) To participate in managerial supervision and work with other managers and lead practitioners to ensure that practices are in place that assess, identify, address and monitor staff needs in relation to Learning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision and appraisal.
iii) To provide consultation within the teams in own area of specialism.
iv) To provide specialist professional education and training to staff within their borough services
v) To take a leadership role in the clinical governance programme, delegating and managing developmental work including audits and participation in clinical research.
vi) To monitor and provide feedback on the work of staff in assessing and managing service user care needs using a variety of engagement methods.
vii) To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies
To ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity that is supportive of service users and their carers, agreeing the best approach to meeting
