Job Description

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 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 will 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.
About us
Working for North London NHS Foundation Trust
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity ofoutcome for all3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environmentto deliver outstanding care.4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, qualityimprovement and technology.
Why NLFT?- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staffand visitors.- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managersprogramme and many more opportunities.- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health andwellbeing initiatives.- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complexmatrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with ourTrusts' values and cultural pillars:
Details
Date posted
14 January 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
44,485 to 52,521 a year Per annum including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
455-NLFT-0512-A
Job locations
Chase Farm Hospital
Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway
Enfield
EN2 8JL
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please could you kindly refer to the attached job description and person specification document for further details. Job description
Job responsibilities
Please could you kindly refer to the attached job description and person specification document for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential

• oA qualification in a mental health or social care (nursing, allied health professional, social work) OR Post graduate masters' level training as a Clinical Associate in Psychology.
• oRegistration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, BPS)
• oAddition training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM)/ Dialectical Behaviour Therapy/ Mentalisation Based Therapy.

Desirable

• oAccredited as an SCM Practitioner.

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• oStrong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
• oEvidence of ability to provide specialist mental health assessment and risk assessment/ management and be accountable for decision making.
• oAbility to formulate a services users presenting difficulties and risk utilising psychological theory.
• oAbility to work collaboratively and with services users in 1-1 and in group settings.
• oEvidence of ability to manage a complex caseload without direct supervision.
• oAbility to communicate effectively and provide coherent reports and documentation according to Trust documentation standards.
• oAbility to provide therapeutic interventions for this client group.

Desirable

• oA demonstrated ability to facilitate group intervention.

Experience/ Knowledge
Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of working with service users with personality disorder
• oExperience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm.
• oSignificant post registration experience working in a mental health service.
• oProven experience of completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and risk management plans without direct supervision.
• oAbility to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, both individually and in an organisational context.

Desirable

• oPrevious experience of working to a model of SCM.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• oA committed to improving the lives of people with Complex Emotional Needs.
• oAbility to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• oAbility to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• oAbility to demonstrate the North London Partnership Values

Other Requirements
Essential

• oAbility to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
• oAbility to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• oTo be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams.

Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential

• oA qualification in a mental health or social care (nursing, allied health professional, social work) OR Post graduate masters' level training as a Clinical Associate in Psychology.
• oRegistration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, BPS)
• oAddition training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM)/ Dialectical Behaviour Therapy/ Mentalisation Based Therapy.

Desirable

• oAccredited as an SCM Practitioner.

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• oStrong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
• oEvidence of ability to provide specialist mental health assessment and risk assessment/ management and be accountable for decision making.
• oAbility to formulate a services users presenting difficulties and risk utilising psychological theory.
• oAbility to work collaboratively and with services users in 1-1 and in group settings.
• oEvidence of ability to manage a complex caseload without direct supervision.
• oAbility to communicate effectively and provide coherent reports and documentation according to Trust documentation standards.
• oAbility to provide therapeutic interventions for this client group.

Desirable

• oA demonstrated ability to facilitate group intervention.

Experience/ Knowledge
Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of working with service users with personality disorder
• oExperience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm.
• oSignificant post registration experience working in a mental health service.
• oProven experience of completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and risk management plans without direct supervision.
• oAbility to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, both individually and in an organisational context.

Desirable

• oPrevious experience of working to a model of SCM.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• oA committed to improving the lives of people with Complex Emotional Needs.
• oAbility to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• oAbility to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• oAbility to demonstrate the North London Partnership Values

Other Requirements
Essential

• oAbility to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
• oAbility to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• oTo be able to work and travel across the geographical area or across integrated teams.

Skills Required