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-A
Site: West Strand House
Town: Preston
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/2025 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.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Job overview
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.
Successful candidates who are not already qualified to deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy will be supported at Band 6 to complete appropriate training. The position will progress to Band 7 once DBT competencies have been achieved.
Main duties of the job
As a mental health practitioner, you will be responsible for ensuring that the needs of service users who have complex emotional needs (CEN) and/or a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) are met through the delivery of high quality evidence-based care and interventions.
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 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.
Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent.
* Completion of relevant course in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or other relevant psychological therapy.
* Willingness to complete Dialectical Behaviour Therapy training.
* Wide experience in Mental Health.
Experience
* Evidence of Leadership Skills.
* Extensive experience of community care delivery – post qualification.
* Knowledge and experience of change management.
Knowledge & 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.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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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 (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), 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. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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