Job summary
- Main area
- Complex Emotional Needs
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0220
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Halliwick Unit
- Town
- Tottenham
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
SCM supervisor (Haringey)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We are excited advertise for a Senior Clinician/Practitioner/Supervisor (1.0 WTE) to supervise SCM practitioners and oversee Structured Clinical Management (SCM) interventions with adult service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) in Haringey and Enfield.
We offer the opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced mental health practitioner to further develop skills in supervising clinicians the delivery of SCM interventions with this client group including Personality Disorder/Complex Trauma/Complex PTSD, part of the core offer.
The post holder will work alongside SCM practitioners and practitioner psychological therapists to implement SCM. The postholder will hold a small caseload of SCM clients and contribute an exciting service development extending the core offer of this client group.
The successful candidate will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Associate Psychologist) with additional training/undertaking training in SCM and an interest in complex PTSD/complex trauma.
Within the role, you will have access to SCM training and supervision (e.g. group and/or individual). You will provide 1:1 and group interventions to service users as part of the multidisciplinary team. You will take a lead role in supporting supervision and oversight of SCM practitioners embedded in the specialist Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD pathways and working into additional teams (e.g. the core community teams).
Main duties of the job
Within the role, you will have access to SCM training and regular supervision (e.g. group and/or individual). You will provide 1:1 and group interventions to service users as part of the multidisciplinary team. You will also take a lead role in supporting the supervision and oversight of SCM practitioners embedded in the specialist Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD pathways and working into core teams delivering the core offer to these patients.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the regulating body and Organisation.
Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
Alongside others to maintain digital systems related to the smooth running of SCM.
To use a high level of interpersonal skills, reasoning and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship with people with complex emotional difficulties managing barriers to communication.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN/ Occupational Therapy/Social work/ Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate/BCP, BACP, UKCP registered Psychotherapist/CAP
- Undertaking / have undertaken a qualification in SCM
- Significant experience of supervising ideally both group and individual work
- Interest / willingness to pursue SCM supervisor training / accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/ Mentorship qualification
- SCM supervisor training
- Completion of training in one or more models of psychological therapies for individuals with complex emotional needs for example SCM, MBT, Schema Therapy or CAT
- Supervisor accreditation achieved or in process for example in SCM or MBT or other relevant psychological models
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet needs of clients.
- Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service.
- Ability to undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems
- Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
- Ability to teach staff and provide advice and support to other agencies / professionals.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a highly emotive and unpredictable environment
- Capacity to work collaboratively in a therapeutic and multi-professional environment within and outside the NHS
- To be able to assess the mental state and risk for a wide range of patients with mental health problems and specifically for patients with personality disorder
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of one or more psychological models for working with service users with complex emotional needs for example, SCM, MBT, schema therapy or CAT
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
- Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
- Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a lead clinician and role model.
- Experience of effective communication with other key stakeholders at a variety of levels.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Capacity to work calmly and thoughtfully when addressing traumatic psychological issues, demonstrating an awareness of the sensitivity and unpredictability of Personality Disorder patients, and a capacity to tolerate the strong emotions evoked by such work
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Capacity to manage frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotive situations and disclosures
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of and interest in working with complex PTSD and complex trauma
- Interest in supporting core CMHTS and other teams to develop skills/knowledge in working with complex emotional needs including cPTSD
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to work within multidisciplinary team and autonomously
Other
Essential criteria
- The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anne Whelan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 6210
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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