Associate Mental Health Worker - Tottenham, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Tottenham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Applications are welcomed for this position within the Haringey Personality Disorder Pathway, which is a pathway in the Haringey Complex Emotional Needs Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to develop skills and confidence working with clients with personality disorders in a highly supportive environment.

You will work closely with a range of mental health professionals and will have the opportunity to undertake a variety of tasks to contribute to service provision.

The PD Pathway provides a service for patients with Personality disorders that fall within Clusters B (mainly those with EUPD/borderline, narcissistic antisocial or other mixed PD traits) and who are requiring multi disciplinary care and treatment

Within the PD Pathway the successful applicants will have a broad range of duties; including contributing to the provision of both group and individual psychological work, undertaking individual interventions for clients, and auditing and managing spread sheets for the pathway.

There are also likely to be opportunities to contribute to service development.

Supervision for clinical work will be provided by senior clinicians and caseload management work will be supervised by senior members of the team.

The Pathway aims to foster a supportive environment for staff and the work of AMHW's is also highly valued in the team as a whole.

The multi disciplinary team consists of psychological therapists, CMHNs, social workers, OTs and AMHWs.

Clinical:

Assist in the delivery of care and treatment for a case load of service users in the community with cluster B personality disorder under the supervision of a registered professional, in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, service users and other community agencies.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects as required.

Research and service evaluation

To assimilate data as required with regards to care pathway and waiting times.
To assimilate and analyse pre and post treatment measures to reflect good practice, evidence based practice and practice based evidence.

General

To attend and support business meetings in the pathway
To produce relevant information for colleagues and clients on psychology and services offered.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder's professional and team/operational manager(s).

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people.

Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions.

We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.

Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

The postholder will have a broad range of duties; including contributing to the provision of both group and individual psychological work, undertaking individual and group work with clients, and auditing and managing spread sheets for the Pathway.

There are also likely to be opportunities to contribute to service development.

Clinical Supervision for psychological work will be provided by senior clinicians and caseload management work will be supervised by senior members of the team.

The Pathway aims to foster a supportive environment for staff and there are opportunities for further training and development.