Job summary
- Main area
- DBT Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2187-A
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet Hospital Springwell Centre
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
DBT Practitioner
Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
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 joining a newly developed DBT pathway and will be working closely with the Barnet Adult Psychology Team and the Complex Emotional Needs pathway team.
Ideally you will have a strong enthusiasm to work in a psychological informed way and had experience of DBT, but this is not essential as training will be provided.
The post holder will provide formal DBT psychological interventions using a trauma -informed approach whilst undertaking necessary training to upskill for this role as required.
You will be joining a creative and dynamic multidisciplinary team with a track record of providing high quality psychological interventions with a strong ethos of trauma informed care.
Main duties of the job
· Jointly assess patients for suitability for DBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for level of experience refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
To formulate and implement DBT focused treatment plans, in particular identifying repeating patterns of crisis and advise ways of altering these, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems.
To educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying DBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
· To support the implementation of a range of DBT psychological interventions (group and individual) for prospective patients.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To work closely with referrers, services and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
To deal appropriately with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which may be highly distressing on a daily basis and to work with frequently intense concentration for the clinical sessions of assessment and therapy.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
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We are kind
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We are respectful
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We work together
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We keep things simple
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We empower
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We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To provide a high-quality DBT treatment to patients with complex mental health problems, in particular people with complex emotional needs (CEN) associated with the diagnosis of Personality Disorder, such as attachment, interpersonal difficulties and emotional intensity. This will include specialist assessment to determine the most appropriate treatment
To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of client’s mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in particular DBT and SCM models developed within the service for the treatment of personality disorder
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 utilise clinical and team supervision, to demonstrate autonomy for treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed with a psychologically-based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
To provide guidance and consultation to MDT teams and other professionals contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence.
To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management pertaining to patients with personality disorders.
Person specification
Qualifications/Registration
Essential criteria
- • Core health professional qualification (Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy Psychotherapist)
- • 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) or a desire to engage in DBT training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Strong interest and desire to work with patients with complex emotional needs and personality disorder in trauma informed way
- • Experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder
- • Experience of facilitating psychoeducational and groups for patients.
- • Experience of working with carers and family members
- • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and working within a multicultural framework
- • Experience in developing risk management plans and psychological treatment pathways
- • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a named/key worker
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of running and delivering DBT groups in a clinical setting
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of either DBT/SCM or mentalisation-based treatment
- • Skills in the use 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.
- • Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, both individually and in an organisational context.
Desirable criteria
- • Enthusiasm about evidence-based practice and about using patient feedback as well as team performance data to develop service as best suited for the needs of our patient population.
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 relationship 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
Desirable criteria
- • A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
- • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sybille Sparke
- Job title
- Manager Barnet CEN Pathway
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087024033
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