Job summary
This role is part of an exciting expansion of the Barnet CEN Pathway. The remit of the new DBT Service is to offer Barnet residents referred into the service a consistent evidence-based therapeutic approach, to reduce inpatient admissions and to support the quick transitions of those in an inpatient service back into the community.
The post holder will be supporting the DBT Lead in setting up this new pathway and you will be working closely with the Barnet Younger Adult Psychological Service and Complex Emotional Needs pathway team.
The role will include supporting the service development, reporting on implementation and agreed outcomes, as well as to supervise and support the screening, referrals, assessments and group or individual therapy provided by other clinical members of the DBT team.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement DBT focused treatment plans, in particular identifying repeating patterns of crisis and advise ways of altering these, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems
To be responsible for implementing a range of DBT psychological interventions (group and individual)
To work closely with referrers, services and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
To provide DBT supervision and line management for staff within the DBT pathway.
About us
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The provide a high-quality DBT treatment to clients with complex mental health problems, in particular people with complex emotional needs (CEN) associated with the diagnosis of Personality Disorder, such as attachment, interpersonal difficulties and emotional intensity. This will include specialist assessment to determine the most appropriate treatment.
To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in particular DBT and SCM models developed within the service for the treatment of personality disorder.
To act as Key worker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under Dialog+ including patients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care in consultation with the MDT.
To utilise clinical and team supervision, to demonstrate autonomy fortreatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed with a psychologically-based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
To provide guidance and consultation to MDT teams and other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To provide formal and informal DBT supervision to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team within a high-risk therapeutic setting.
To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To maintain breakaway skills for the prevention and management of aggression, as taught by the Trust. To ensure that risks of physical violence are minimised using appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.
To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management pertaining to patients with personality disorders.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
1. oCore health professional qualification (Psychology, Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy Psychotherapist) oRegistration with the appropriate professional body (HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, UKCP, BACP)
2. oWorking towards Accredited Practitioner Status in MBT or DBT
Desirable
3. oBasic Training Certificate in Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) or in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Skills and Abilities
Essential
4. oStrong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
5. oExperience of running and delivering DBT groups in a clinical setting
6. oMinimum of two years' experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder
7. oExperience of facilitating psychoeducational and groups for service users.
8. oExperience of working with carers and family members
9. oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary team and working within a multicultural framework
10. oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a named/key worker
11. oExperience in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways
Desirable
12. oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
13. oExperience of service development or of a leadership role.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
14. oExperience of service development or of a leadership role.
15. oSkills in the use psychological assessments, intervention and management
16. oWell-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
17. oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
18. 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.
19. oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body
20. oKnowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health
Desirable
21. oA commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
22. oDesire to take up leadership in service development of psychological treatment services
Personal Qualities
Essential
23. oAn enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment in the field of Personality Disorder
24. oAbility to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
25. oAbility to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
26. oAbility to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
27. oAbility to demonstrate BEH Trust Values
Desirable
28. oA commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
29. oDesire to take up leadership in service development of psychological treatment services
Other
Essential
30. oAbility to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
31. 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
32. oAbility to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings