Job summary
Following the partial promotion of the current post-holder, we are seeking a Joint Lead for the North Central London CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service. Our service, established in January 2023, provides DBT across all 5 North Central London Boroughs: Islington, Camden, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
Since its establishment, our service has demonstrated effective and positive outcomes for a range of young people. Alongside delivering high quality therapeutic work to young people, their parents/carers, we have also expanded to deliver Family Connections and DBT Skills Training for staff across NCL.
This is a really exciting time to join our team, supporting the existing Lead to continue to improve outcomes, expand into new areas and maintain our high standards of care. Our team benefits from a very positive culture, and we would welcome applicants with strong leadership qualities, who are able to positively contribute to our service. We are particularly interested in applicants from a diverse background, supporting our continued efforts to ensure our teams represent those that we provide care to.
The post holder will work very closely with the NCL CYP MH leadership team, clinicians and managers across Tier 4 units, CAMHS and crisis teams, the NCEL collaborative and other stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
To work alongside the existing post holder, co-leading the service in defined yet complimentary aspects of the DBT team.
More widely, to work alongside our Whittington Health CAMHS clinical lead and Joint Head of CAMHS and Associate Director for CAMHS, NCL and NCEL CYP mental health leads and other stakeholders, to continued to expand the NCL CAMHS DBT Service.
To support and lead on our clinical model and the team recruitment, create and implement policies and procedures as appropriate to ensure the provision of safe and high quality care, and lead on the monitoring of clinical outcomes, audit, research and quality improvement.
To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the NCL DBT Service with particular regard to the provision of DBT, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CYP-IAPT
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work alongside the existing post holder, co-leading the service in defined yet complimentary aspects of the DBT team.
More widely, to work alongside our Whittington Health CAMHS clinical lead and Joint Head of CAMHS and Associate Director for CAMHS, NCL and NCEL CYP mental health leads and other stakeholders, to continued to expand the NCL CAMHS DBT Service.
To support and lead on our clinical model and the team recruitment, create and implement policies and procedures as appropriate to ensure the provision of safe and high quality care, and lead on the monitoring of clinical outcomes, audit, research and quality improvement.
To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the NCL DBT Service with particular regard to the provision of DBT, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CYP-IAPT
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to nonpsychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other nonprofessional carers
The post holder will be responsible for the continued development of the specialist psychology resources within the NCL DBT Service and for the work undertaken by them. Providing clinical and professional supervision to less experienced practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and mental health practitioners within the DBT Outpatient Service and as agreed with the appropriate operational manager and Professional/Consultant Leads
The post-holder will offer Specialist/Specific work as Therapy Lead of the NCL CAMHS DBT Service
To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the DBT Service MDT, including taking an active part in MDT meetings.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the DBT Service
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service
All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work alongside the existing post holder, co-leading the service in defined yet complimentary aspects of the DBT team.
More widely, to work alongside our Whittington Health CAMHS clinical lead and Joint Head of CAMHS and Associate Director for CAMHS, NCL and NCEL CYP mental health leads and other stakeholders, to continued to expand the NCL CAMHS DBT Service.
To support and lead on our clinical model and the team recruitment, create and implement policies and procedures as appropriate to ensure the provision of safe and high quality care, and lead on the monitoring of clinical outcomes, audit, research and quality improvement.
To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the NCL DBT Service with particular regard to the provision of DBT, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CYP-IAPT
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to nonpsychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other nonprofessional carers
The post holder will be responsible for the continued development of the specialist psychology resources within the NCL DBT Service and for the work undertaken by them. Providing clinical and professional supervision to less experienced practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and mental health practitioners within the DBT Outpatient Service and as agreed with the appropriate operational manager and Professional/Consultant Leads
The post-holder will offer Specialist/Specific work as Therapy Lead of the NCL CAMHS DBT Service
To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the DBT Service MDT, including taking an active part in MDT meetings.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the DBT Service
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service
All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- A qualification in one of the following core professions with appropriate associated professional registrations: oNursing oSocial work oOccupational therapy oClinical psychology oCounselling psychology oChild Psychotherapist oSystemic Therapist oCBT Therapist
- DBT Trained (Intensive) or extensive equivalent experience of working within the model in an outpatient setting
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
Desirable
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically this would involve significant experience at highly specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment
Desirable
- Delivery of DBT in a clinical setting
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems).
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- A qualification in one of the following core professions with appropriate associated professional registrations: oNursing oSocial work oOccupational therapy oClinical psychology oCounselling psychology oChild Psychotherapist oSystemic Therapist oCBT Therapist
- DBT Trained (Intensive) or extensive equivalent experience of working within the model in an outpatient setting
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
Desirable
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically this would involve significant experience at highly specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment
Desirable
- Delivery of DBT in a clinical setting
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
