DBT Clinical Lead

Main area Allied Health Professional/Nurse/Social Worker/OT Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

30 hours per week (Covering across inpatient and community) Job ref 395-KM061-25

Site Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital Town Staplehurst Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/02/:59

Joining means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families struggling with intensive mental health and emotional difficulties? Do you wish to be part of a growing supportive and innovative team that works across Kent and Medway? If so, an exciting opportunity for a Band 8B Principal Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Psychological Practitioner role has arisen to join the comprehensive Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) working across inpatient, home treatment and locality teams across Kent and Medway.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust CYPMHS is based in the County of Kent and is part of comprehensive children's mental health services which includes an all-age eating disorders service, Neuro-developmental and Learning Disabilities pathways and mental health support services for schools. We have a strong focus on training and research and team members benefit from excellent training and CPD opportunities focused around developing exceptional National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) concordant skills in working with children and young people with emotional and mental difficulties.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a fully registered HCPC/BABCP DBT accreditable Psychological Professional. The role is part of an expanding comprehensive CAMHS transformation in Kent and to be part of an established CYP DBT Team. The post holder will work closely across comprehensive CAMHS and the Kent Sussex & Hampshire provider collaborative and other stakeholders. The CYP DBT Service offers specialist DBT assessments and interventions to YP and their families reducing inpatient and acute admissions and leading to effective outcomes for CYP and families.

The DBT post holder will liaise with CYPMHS services to ensure clear transitions for young people entering or leaving the DBT Service and where appropriate supporting the transition to Adult Services. The post holder will be part of the delivery of a highly specialist therapeutic service to those who require a DBT Service. The post holder will be part of the clinical team and MDT whilst taking on a significant leadership role for developing the DBT service in Kent and being accountable to the Head of Service and Associate Director for inpatient/home treatment and crisis services. We are keen to expand our home treatment therapeutic service offer to include DBT for disordered eating presentations which the post-holder will have a significant role in.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities include;

• Clinical Skills
• Teaching Training and Supervision
• Research and Evaluation
• General and Professional
• Leadership
• Computer/Administration
• Communication

Please see JD for further detailed information

Person specification Qualifications

• A qualification in one of the following core professions with appropriate associated professional registrations: Nursing, Social work, Occupational therapy, Clinical psychology, Counselling psychology, Systemic Psychotherapist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• Intensive DBT training.

Experience

• Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
• Experience in the treatment of young people with complex trauma and disordered eating.
• Delivery of DBT in a clinical setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.

Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
• Understanding of work with young people with disordered eating.

Skills

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills.
• Effective Leadership Skill.
• Accountable for own professional actions, works within professional ethics and trust policies, lead specialist services.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to motivate staff to develop practices and meet new challenges.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and non-verbal.
• Ability to write detailed reports on present and future services using research methods as appropriate.
• Ability to present and disseminate information both at a senior and field level.
• Ability to develop and use a computerised database and manipulate activity based information, systems and reports.
• Analytic skills (situations and information).

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.