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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

The SCM Practitioner role offers the opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health practitioner to further develop their skills in offering an evidenced-based intervention, Structured Clinical Management (SCM), for service users with Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) in the Core Teams in Barnet and Enfield. The post holder will work alongside another SCM Practitioner, the Senior SCM Practitioner, and colleagues in the Core Team to provide SCM assessment, formulation, group and individual intervention to a caseload of service users. You will have access to SCM training and receive regular group and individual supervision. 

The successful candidate, who will be joining this new pathway, will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner (e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Associate Psychologist). Additional training in SCM, DBT or MBT would be desirable. In addition, the ideal candidate will have worked with services users with CEN offering assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention. 

Main duties of the job

The role will require the post holder to: 

·       Collaboratively working alongside Core Team Key workers to support identification and undertake assessment of emotional and psychological needs of patients within the Core Teams who have a confirmed or suspected personality disorder diagnosis and personality disorder traits which may not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

·       Formulate and implement appropriate SCM treatment plans with the support of colleagues in the SCM Pathway

·       Liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the service

·       Offer consultation and support to Core Team colleagues within an SCM framework      

·       Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures in close collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team

·      To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients within the formal therapy setting as well as on the telephone or occasionally on domiciliary visits, and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects 

·       To be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.