Scm Link Worker

3 weeks ago


Bury, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the SCM team, due to the current post holders’ period of maternity leave. This may be of interest to existing Band 7 or Band 6 practitioners.

The SCM team offers an evidence based approach to working with people with complex emotional and relational needs and personality difficulties. The service offers a detailed assessment, formulation and one to one and group interventions focused on problem solving, managing crises, developing skills to manage impulsivity, manage emotions, and interpersonal interactions.

You will have experience of working with people with complex personality disorder and have significant post registration experience at Band 6. You will be proficient in completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and risk management plans without direct supervision.

It will particularly appeal to those who are passionate, enthusiastic, and that are compassionate and relationally informed.

You will have access to regular managerial and clinical supervision.

If you are interested in this post and would like an informal discussion, please contact;
Donna Edgley (Service manager, Adult Community Services)

You will work as part of the CMHT Personality Disorder Team as a personality disorder link worker providing senior presence and expertise. Your role will be to work with people with complex personality difficulties in the service who are not yet ready to engage with structured clinical management or therapy, presenting in chaos and with highly risky behaviours. You will act as case holder and actively liaise with other agencies involved to ensure a consistent and multi
- agency clinically appropriate approach to the persons care.

The Trust is committed to the following values

Kindness--we believe that care and compassion underpin everything

Fairness-- we work together towards a fairer, more just and equal society.

Ingenuity--we are resourceful and innovative in developing better solutions

Determination--we are courageous, tenacious and ambitious for what we can achieve together.

**Job Description**:
**Post**: Personality Disorder Link Worker

**Band**: 7

**Responsible to**: CMHT manager

**Main Contacts**: Internal or external contacts

Job Summary
You will work as part of the CMHT Personality Disorder Team as a personality disorder link worker providing senior presence and expertise. Your role will be to work with people with complex personality difficulties in the service who are not yet ready to engage with structured clinical management or therapy, presenting in chaos and with highly risky behaviours. You will act as case holder and actively liaise with other agencies involved to ensure a consistent and multi
- agency clinically appropriate approach to the persons care.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To provide psychological formulation, mental health and risk assessments for service users referred to the service with complex and highly complex needs
- To act as case holder for a group of people with complex and highly complex personality disorder working to best practice guidelines and in a psychologically minded trauma informed way.
- To ensure that service users social care needs are assessed under the Care Act and addressed according to locality/ service procedures
- To work with service users and carers collaboratively as equal partners in care.
- To demonstrate high level communication skills to facilitate effective communication even where there are barriers to understanding and utilise highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills in highly emotive, antagonistic situations
- To develop in collaboration with the service user care plans and safety plans designed to provide a personalised approach to managing risk behaviours and suicidality in the context of personality disorder maximising choice and control for the service user
- To lead on multi-agency approaches to care with other health and social care providers, the Police and ambulance service to provide a consistent approach to and understanding of the service user needs
- To lead/ contribute to group therapeutic approaches with this client group using a structured clinical management framework
- To prepare/ encourage service users towards specific treatment approaches such as SCM or therapy as appropriate
- To provide therapeutic 1-1 sessions for service users working to specified agreed goals and outcomes
- To make onward referrals and signpost to other services including VCSE and neighbourhood services to enable wrap around, holistic support for service users undergoing treatment to meet a broad range of need
- To provide personality disorder specific training for teams and services as required
- To delegate for team manager when required and represent the team/ service when required to do so at other forums
- To provide specialist supervision to other practitioners as directed
- In conjunction with team managers, other practitioners, service users and carers to



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