Would you like to work for an Outstanding NHS Trust, and join an innovative and supportive service that is highly committed to decreasing stigma associated with personality difficulties, promoting optimism about recovery, and increasing access to evidence-based interventions? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health practitioner with expertise in working with people with personality difficulties to join our specialist multi-disciplinary team as a Senior Practitioner/Inpatient Linkworker. The post is based at the Welland Centre Inpatient Hospital in Kettering and can involve occasional travel to other locations across the county.
The Northants Personality Disorder Hub is a countywide specialist service that works to enhance understanding of personality disorder and promote the delivery of effective interventions across community and inpatient services in Northamptonshire. The team comprises of staff from a range of professional backgrounds (including nursing, occupational therapy and clinical psychology). This post will give the successful candidate the opportunity to develop their capabilities within a highly supportive and motivated multidisciplinary team and a range of training and CPD opportunities within the service and wider network can be provided. Clinical supervision is also viewed as integral to maintaining staff wellbeing and effectiveness.
Main duties of the job
This post will provide support to inpatient services in the North of the county to enhance the effectiveness of acute admissions for people with a 'personality disorder'. The post holder will make a significant contribution to the early identification of personality disorder in inpatient settings, support others to further develop therapeutic skills (e.g. in sharing information about diagnosis, goal setting, analysing crisis behaviour, and identifying and addressing barriers to discharge), and contribute to discharge planning and pathway development. The post holder will seek to enhance links between community and inpatient services to aid effective acute crisis management and improve access to evidence-based interventions in the community.
The service provides a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) programme at two locations across the county and leads on the delivery of Structured Clinical Management (SCM) across general secondary mental health services. Alongside this, the service also frequently delivers training to community and inpatient teams and benefits from an established group of experts by experience who are passionate about promoting hope, improving services and co-developing and delivering staff training. There are opportunities for this role to contribute to wider initiatives and interventions offered by the service.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.