Specialist Practitioner Personality Disorders
Band 7
Main area: General Psychiatry
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-PEN938-EB
Site: West Strand House
Town: Preston
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
A challenging and dynamic position for a Specialist Practitioner in Personality Disorders has arisen in Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will provide input into the Fylde Coast. We require someone with drive and compassion to support the implementation of high-quality, evidence-based interventions for people with complex emotional needs (CEN).
The successful candidates will predominantly work with service users who have complex emotional needs (CEN) and/or a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) who are currently on CMHT case loads. You will deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Structured Clinical Management (SCM) to a caseload of service users within the community setting in your locality. An important function of the role will be to provide clinical supervision and support CMHT staff who are also providing SCM to the service users.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will work with service users who predominantly have CEN and/or a diagnosis of EUPD and have been accepted into the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). You will deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Structured Clinical Management (SCM) to service users in the community setting in your locality.
As well as direct face to face contact with service users in the form of individual therapy and group work, it is expected that you will be able to engage with the wider community system (A&E, police, inpatient and community settings) and support them to deliver evidence-based practice. It's expected that you are able to travel across Lancashire to meet the needs of the service if necessary, however you will be aligned with Fylde Coast locality.
Supervision is an integral part of this job and you will be supported with regular access to supervision on a consistent basis. Clinical peer supervision will be provided by fellow Specialist Practitioners and senior Clinical Leads. You will also be providing supervision and support to your local CMHT staff and SCM practitioners, assisting them to deliver the SCM model of care.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
* Completion of relevant course in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or other relevant psychological therapy
* Willing to complete Dialectical Behaviour Therapy training
* Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN, SW, OT)
Skills
* Skills in the use of methods of assessment, interventions and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Experience
* Evidence of Leadership Skills
* Extensive experience of community care delivery – post qualification
* Experience of working with adult clients with complex emotional needs and/or diagnosis of personality disorders
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups.
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