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Thank you for your interest in 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
* To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various 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.
* To formulate and implement DBT focused treatment plans, particularly identifying repeating patterns of crisis and advising ways of altering these, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of DBT psychological interventions (group and individual).
* To work closely with referrers, services, and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
* To provide DBT supervision and line management for staff within the DBT pathway.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To provide a high-quality DBT treatment to clients with complex mental health problems, particularly people with complex emotional needs (CEN) associated with the diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
* To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
* To act as Key worker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under Dialog+ including patients, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care in consultation with the MDT.
* To provide guidance and consultation to MDT teams and other professionals contributing directly to patients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
* To provide formal and informal DBT supervision to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team within a high-risk therapeutic setting.
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.
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.
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 develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings.
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