Clinical Practitioner

Prospero are searching for a talented Clinical Practitioner in Eastbourne in East Sussex to support a service that houses and cares for adults with complex mental health needs. As a Clinical Practitioner, you will work within our multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with our local foundation trust. You will provide a clinical service to a caseload of individuals supported by the organisation. This will include the provision of specialist interventions under the supervision of our Clinical Lead, according to formulations rooted in evidence-based best practice.

Responsibilities:

• Take on a visible supportive role within the organisation, with direct responsibility and accountability for the quality of our service provision
• Be a part of providing a specialist Clinical Psychology service, as agreed with the wider multi-disciplinary team around the individual and under the supervision of our Clinical Lead
• Have responsibility for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to act under the supervision of our Clinical Lead for planning, prioritising, and delivering assessment, treatment, and discharge of individuals within the service policy
• Produce clinical formulations and support the delivery of specialist interventions according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based best practice
• Provide specialist assessments and adjust psychological interventions to work effectively with people presenting with complex needs due to cognitive impairment and organic disorders
• Communicate in a skilled manner with the individual and their family/carer to engage, involve and support throughout the assessment, formulation, and treatment process
• Undertake risk assessment, review and management for individuals with complex needs and continually monitor risk to ensure this is communicated effectively with the multi-disciplinary team
• Support the Clinical Lead to devise, run and supervise therapy groups, as agreed with the multi-disciplinary team
• Ensure all clinical work is adequately recorded; and to prepare clinical reports as required
• Participate within ward rounds, case conferences and CPA meetings as required
• Liaise with internal and external colleagues as required

Requirements:

• Experience, skill, and passion to take a personal responsibility for ensuring high-quality provision
• Enhanced DBS check
• This position may require travel, an expense policy is in operation
• Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Psychiatric Nurse and/or registration with BCBA, BPS, HCPC

Working Hours: 40 hours per week, Flexible Working Available

We are looking for an individual who has the experience, skill, and passion to take a personal responsibility for ensuring high-quality provision. This role will include managing relationships with our multi-disciplinary partners; and actively participating within the organisational strategic plan to share a specialist psychologically informed perspective. This role is important, interesting, and highly visible; it creates an opportunity to lead innovative, award-winning, and high-quality services to some of the most vulnerable and marginalised individuals within our society.