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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Job overview
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 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 supervising and supporting the screening, referrals, assessments, and group or individual therapy provided by other clinical members of the DBT team.
Main duties of the job
* 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.
* Formulate and implement DBT-focused treatment plans, identifying repeating patterns of crisis and advising ways of altering these, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.
* Be responsible for implementing a range of DBT psychological interventions (group and individual).
* Work closely with referrers, services, and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
* Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
* Provide DBT supervision and line management for staff within the DBT pathway.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
* Core health professional qualification (Psychology, Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy, Psychotherapist) and registration with the appropriate professional body (HCPC, NMC, Social Work England, UKCP, BACP).
* Working towards Accredited Practitioner Status in MBT or DBT.
Desirable criteria
* Basic Training Certificate in Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) or in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Strong interest and desire to work with clients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in a trauma-informed way.
* Experience of running and delivering DBT groups in a clinical setting.
* Minimum of two years' experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder.
* Experience of facilitating psychoeducational groups for service users.
* Experience of working with carers and family members.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a named/key worker.
* Experience in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
* Skills in the use of psychological assessments, intervention, and management.
* Well-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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to contain, explore, and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body.
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
* A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit.
* Desire to take up leadership in service development of psychological treatment services.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment in the field of Personality Disorder.
* Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
* Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
* Ability to demonstrate BEH Trust Values.
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Ability 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.
* Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings.
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