Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professions
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-1833-B
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Farm Hospital
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including Outer London Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
PD Senior Practitioner/Acute Liaison
Band 7
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
The post-holder will primarily offer liaison to the Acute Wards in Enfield relating directly to the service users with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder who are being considered for admission or already an inpatient . This will include attending ward rounds and team meetings to offer trauma-informed consultation and clinical advice to Acute teams as well as delivering training and supervision.
The role aims to use experience and clinical knowledge to increase the capacity of the teams delivering care to meet the needs of this service user group as well as enhance the experience of the service users in the least restrictive environment possible. Therefore, understanding risk and a confidence in discharge planning is an essential skill for the post holder. The post holder will undertake urgent assessments on behalf of the Personality Disorder Pathway, supervising team members from the ward and the Community Teams to take up the outcomes and recommendations of these.
The post holder will lead on ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users. They will also support the development, implementation and embedding of trauma informed practice on the Acute wards.
Main duties of the job
- To provide skilled trauma-informed assessments of patients’ emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources
- To evaluate and make decisions about trauma-informed treatment plans in conjunction with the MDT
- To formulate and implement plans for the management of the patient’s mental health problems, informed by the Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation-Based Treatment model, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or another appropriate psychological model.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans for patients and to monitor progress together with the MDT
- To demonstrate, through case supervision and clinical meetings, the explicit implementation of a Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation Based Treatment or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy informed approach to all clinical work and reflective practice groups.
- To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects
- To provide advice, consultation, training and skills development to acute ward colleagues and community colleagues
Working for our organisation
Working for North London Mental Health Partnership
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.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
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:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification document for more thorough information about the post.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- • Core health professional qualification (Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist)
- • Registration with the appropriate professional body (NMC, Social Work England, HCPC, UKCP, BACP, BABCP etc).
- • Basic Training Certificate in Structured Clinical Management, Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) or in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Desirable criteria
- • Working towards Accredited Practitioner Status in SCM, MBT or DBT
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- • Working with patients with severe and complex mental health problems
- • Demonstrable substantial experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- • Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment
- • Experience of the psychological assessment of Personality Disorder, including risk assessment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training to different disciplines and professions.
- • Experience of the supervision process and ability to offer effective supervision to staff at different levels.
- • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
- • Experience of delivering psychological care and treatment according to a multidisciplinary care plan and under supervision
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional group
- • Training and advanced skills in a specialised approach such as psycho-social interventions, dual diagnosis, personality disorder.
- • Knowledge of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
- • To be able to assess the mental state and risk for a wide range of patients with mental health problems and specifically for patients with personality disorder
- • Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a senior clinician and role model.
- • Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service.
- • Ability to teach staff and provide advice and support to other agencies/professionals
- • Experience of effective communication with other key stakeholders at a variety of levels.
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- • 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 manage stress and work under pressure
- • Ability to demonstrate BEH Trust Values
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential criteria
- • IT skills including email, word processing and basic data base.
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- • Organised and good time management skills
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within 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
- Nichole Strachan
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 5011
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