Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence–based practice. This includes strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required. 

To act as key worker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads. 

To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

This might include: 
a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention. 
b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions. 
c. Psychosocial interventions. 
d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies. 
e. Medication management. 
f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.

To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers' ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user. 

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates. 

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate. 

To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans. 

To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling. 

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information. 

Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated. 

Personally, and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the person's goal. 

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required. 

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.