Total 4 Internship level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in 502 STAFFORD VA

For further information of this role please see attached the job description and person specification. You must already be working for MPFT as this is a secondment opportunity.

To be responsible for community or hospital admissions, including liaison with other agencies, service users and carers. To evaluate the outcome of nursing interventions to ensure that care plan objectives have been met and that health gains have been achieved. To co-ordinate care with the MDT and hospital staff at points of attending appointments, admission and discharge. To provide advice, practical support and guidance with regards to people who may lack capacity to make decisions about their health. Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.

To provide a specialist psychological service within the specified service, to adults with mental health difficulties. To work with clients individually online/remotely. Within this to be able to communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues. To be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients care, interpreting complex data and giving feedback effectively and with sensitively. To be skilled in risk assessment and management. These demands will incorporate frequent intense concentration often in emotionally demanding or unpredictable environments. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times. To provide expert psychological assessment and reports, both written and verbal, of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics. Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological therapy to a high standard to service users with a range of mental health problems. To formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of a clients psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy. To manage a specialist caseload autonomously and within the criteria directed by the Trust. To make difficult decisions about priorities and clinical issues. To act as a care coordinator - where appropriate, taking responsibility for planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA. To attend the regular team meetings as necessary and as agreed with the Team Manager an Clinical Lead to whom accountable, being responsible for offering psychological input as a specialist resource. To risk assess individual clients, especially those who have challenging and complex needs and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To liaise with relevant professionals within the role. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the clients formulation and plan of care. To be responsible for the assessment, formulation and implementation of psychological therapy within the specific areas of clinical responsibility. This will incorporate specialized complex assessments and interpretation of clinical material. To evaluate and make decisions about psychological interventions taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the person and the family or social group within which they function. To offer specialist consultancy, training, plus supervision, as required. To contribute to team development and management, to facilitate effective and efficient working of the overall team, using analysis of the provision and planning for future development. To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, exercise due diligence in respect of duty of care and communicate in reports to referring colleagues information on assessment, formulation and the nature/purpose of psychological therapy and rehabilitation. The post holder will be required to engage in frequent intense concentration relevant to complex clinical issues and with highly distressing clinical material. This may also involve some exposure to aggression or other unpleasant conditions within which the post holder will be expected to maintain the highest levels of expert judgement and application of complex skills. To adhere to the code of ethics of the relevant professional body (e.g. BPS, NMC, HCPC, EMDR Europe, BABCP), and the employing NHS Trust. To be responsible for personal health and safety within the workplace. To be aware of health and safety issues for others within the work context also. Working conditions will include some regular exposure to hazards including possible verbal aggression and high levels of affect. The above may incorporate utilization of a range of general skills including high level keyboard and computer skills for interpretation and collection of data and for the communication of such. To communicate highly complex condition related information to service users, other social and healthcare professionals.

Under the supervision and guidance of Lead/Senior Occupational Therapist to: - take responsibility for a clinical caseload in the area of work. This will include caseload management and decision on how to prioritise workload and Service User needs. - carry out assessments including gathering complex information from Service Users, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. - contribute to the overall care plan using effective Occupational Therapy treatment programmes This will include the use of clinical reasoning and theoretical knowledge relevant to the speciality - implement, evaluate and adjust treatment programmes according to individual needs. - To recommend suitable equipment to enable Service Users activities of daily living. - To write and disseminate reports according to agreed protocols in line with local and national standards. - To work across multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams involved in the delivery of care. - To contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings/care and treatment planning contributing the specialist Occupational Therapy perspective. - To participate in clinical supervision to maintain best practice. - to be responsible for the discharge, of Service Users from own caseload. - To contribute to the occupational therapy perspective on clinical risk assessment & management. To maintain and demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines, standards, legislation and professional developments in current methods in the treatment of Service Users conditions within the speciality. To adhere to the College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and Professional Code of Conduct, and Core Standards for Occupational Therapists. To participate in managerial supervision to maintain best practice. This will include discussion of day to day operational issues and management of self. To deliver an Occupational Therapy service in line with National/Local standards, professional research and purchaser requirements. This will involve balancing clinical, professional and management priorities. To assist in the development of a flexible service which may include evenings and weekends.