Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for any candidate who wants to be part of an ambitious and energetic organisation and a high-profile national programme, with a focus on empowering individuals and ensuring the very best clinical and individual recovery outcomes. The CAMHS DBT service works with young people across Hertfordshire who are struggling with managing emotions and high-risk behaviours, to help them learn new skills and build a life worth living. Furthermore, you would be joining a very supportive and passionate team who focus on working together to deliver the best possible care and treatment to the families we work with. The service has been short-listed for a number of national awards.
No training in DBT is required; just some enthusiasm and willingness to learn a new therapeutic approach, with the support of the team. Comprehensive training is provided in this role from a national DBT training programme, as well as regular CPD as part of the team's on-going learning and development.
Main duties of the job
As the Band 6 DBT Practitioner you will be a member of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Outpatient Service within CAMHS. This is part of an exciting expansion of CAMHS specialist services within HPFT. The remit of the DBT Outpatient Service is to offer young people 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 to the DBT Outpatient Service
The role involves offering individual therapy, group skills training, telephone coaching, and to be an active member of a DBT Consultation team. The service is relatively new; opening to referrals in March 2019, therefore the post holder will have opportunity not only to work clinically with young people and families with complex mental health problems, but also to be part of the ongoing development of this innovative team.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just fivemental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be involved in liaising with other CAMHS services to ensure clear transitions for young people entering or leaving the DBT Outpatient Service and where appropriate supporting the transition to Adult Services.
- Work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own core profession.
- Provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development as required.`
- Contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver specialist DBT assessments and interventions to young people and their families who are referred by other CAMHS services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be involved in liaising with other CAMHS services to ensure clear transitions for young people entering or leaving the DBT Outpatient Service and where appropriate supporting the transition to Adult Services.
- Work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own core profession.
- Provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development as required.`
- Contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver specialist DBT assessments and interventions to young people and their families who are referred by other CAMHS services.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Qualification in one of the following and current full professional registration as relevant to the specific profession: ? RMN, RGN or RSCN ? Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Postgraduate doctorate in clinical psychology or its equivalent prior to 1996, as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist) ? Systemic or Family Therapist (Masters/Doctoral level qualification with post-graduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession) ? Social Worker or recognised earlier equivalent qualification to practice such as CQSW, Dip S.W and relevant post qualifying training for Social Workers ? Occupational Therapist ? Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Postgraduate clinical doctorate or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 - including 2 year pre-clinical masters/diploma level training - in psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by the ACP
Desirable
- DBT Trained (Intensive) with experience of working within the model in an outpatient setting
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or related area, or several years experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to initiate service developments or be involved in service planning
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Qualification in one of the following and current full professional registration as relevant to the specific profession: ? RMN, RGN or RSCN ? Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Postgraduate doctorate in clinical psychology or its equivalent prior to 1996, as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist) ? Systemic or Family Therapist (Masters/Doctoral level qualification with post-graduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession) ? Social Worker or recognised earlier equivalent qualification to practice such as CQSW, Dip S.W and relevant post qualifying training for Social Workers ? Occupational Therapist ? Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Postgraduate clinical doctorate or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 - including 2 year pre-clinical masters/diploma level training - in psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by the ACP
Desirable
- DBT Trained (Intensive) with experience of working within the model in an outpatient setting
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or related area, or several years experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to initiate service developments or be involved in service planning
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
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
CAMHS, 15 Forest Lane, Kingsley Green, Radlett, WD7 9HQ
15 Forest Lane, Kingsley Green
Radlett
WD7 9HQ
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
