Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems, and/or offending behaviour problems, and/or other disabilities
• Evidence of working with children and young people with substance misuse difficulties

Desirable

• Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
• Experience of working in prisons and/or with adolescents, in forensic services, and/or Substance misuse or CAMHS services.
• Experience of working with young people with gang affiliations
• Experience of co-facilitating psychosocial groups.
• Experience of working within a team.
• Experience in using computers for databases or data analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
• Experience in collating and inputting NDTMS data
• Experience of working in mental health, substance misuse, or related services
• Worked in a service where agreed targets were in place to demonstrate outcomes
• Ability to manage own caseload and time

Training and Qualification

Essential

• Evidence of working with children, teenagers, or adults with Substance misuse difficulties
• Evidence of ability to study successfully at the undergraduate level or the equivalent

Desirable

• Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling, or within a specific psychological therapy
• Psychology or other health /social care/youth-related undergraduate degree
• Other relevant postgraduate degree
• Motivational interviewing skills

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• High-level communication skills (written and verbal), including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, family, and colleagues in a way that addresses the service user’s particular needs.
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health or substance misuse context.
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
• Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
• Experience using IT for databases or data analysis.

Desirable

• High standard of report writing skills

Personal

Essential

• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines
• An ability to establish and sustain engagement with people who have mental health problems and severely challenging behaviours including sexually harmful behaviours
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
• Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care.

Desirable

• An interest in working with people with forensic histories, mental health problems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).