East London CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Pathway have recently been successful in securing funding to enable to provision of a Specialist DBT-A service pilot. The pilot is initially funded for 12 months, however with strong clinical evidence of effectiveness there is opportunity to extend this funding substantively.
This post will be based within the East London CAMHS DBT Service which is part of the Alternative to Admissions Pathway, sitting alongside our CAMHS Crisis Team and Intensive Community Care Service (ICCS).
The East London CAMHS DBT Service will provide high intensity, effective; evidence-based psychological treatment for adolescents with traits and/or diagnosis of an (emerging) Borderline Personality Disorder, including self-harm and suicidality.
The Service will offer a full DBT assessment, treatment and consultation for Adolescents kn own to community CAMHS services within Newham, Tower Hamlets, City and Hackney. Full treatment comprises of a year-long treatment and includes weekly individual therapy sessions, weekly skills groups (for the young person and parent/carers) and access to telephone skills coaching. The service is operational Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, working closely with community CAMHS and sister services within the Alternative to Admissions Pathway to support young people through their journey to recovery.
The post-holder will be a psychology graduate with some relevant experience working with young people and families, as well as high level written and verbal communication skills. They will be keen to use supervision and training to develop assessment and clinical skills.
The post-holder will work in an experienced multi-disciplinary team and be able to work well in different systems. This will also include contribution to group therapies and using visual tools and statistical packages to analyse and present the performance data of the service. The post holder will be supported to form links with the other Assistant Psychologists in the service and to undertake CPD activities related to career progression. Please note that this is a fixed term appointment in the first instance.
The clinical team leaders are committed to staff development: there are regular opportunities for staff to apply for appropriate training courses. We are also passionate about service user participation, for example in evaluation of groups and service development. Our teams regularly undertake quality improvement initiatives. ELFT also prioritises staff wellbeing and we have introduced a range of staff wellbeing initiatives to support this.
For Full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Friday 17 Jan 2025