Pict Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have two new and exciting roles for skilled clinical or counselling psychologists to make a difference in the lives of homeless people facing multiple disadvantage.

Islington council have commissioned Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust to offer this project.

These roles will involve working alongside existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing.

Both roles will be based in the Rough Sleeping Team in Islington council.

Some time will be spent in Islington Core Teams within the local Mental Health Trust, as part of supporting the homelessness pathway within the Trust.

Post holders will be co-located with these teams and will be managed and supervised within the C&I NHS PICT Service.

The Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training (PICT) service provides a model of consultation, training and joint working that supports the wider system to work more effectively with people presenting with complex mental health presentations, including personality disorder (not necessarily diagnosed) among other difficulties.

The approach we use aims to equip staff working with complexity, with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to understand the person beyond their surface behaviours.

These roles will involve working alongside existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing.

The post holders will therefore offer PICT services to staff and residents in a variety of settings including hostels, council housing and those who are rough sleeping.

Alongside consultation, liaison and training the post holders will be offering some direct interventions to residents where possible.

The post holders will be required to work flexibly, independently, and responsively within a changing environment.

Applicants need to be comfortable with outreach and multi-agency joint working and need to have experience in direct working with services users with enduring complex needs, personality disorder, substance use and so on.

Applicants need to be confident in providing case consultation to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and have experience of multi-disciplinary team working.

The above are core components of the post.

At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust we have 3 key priorities which are:

Early and Effective Intervention,
Helping People to Live Well
Research and Innovation

The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:

We value each other
We are empowered
We keep things simple
We are connected

By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.

Line management and supervision is provided by the PICT Team Lead, and the post holders will also work with operational leads in Islington Rough Sleeping and Housing -related Services.

Links will be maintained with the Trust by attending relevant training and operational meetings, as needed.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification, which provide detailed descriptions of the roles and requirements.