CAMHS DBT Lead

East London CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Pathway have recently been successful in securing funding to enable to provision of a Specialist DBT-A service pilot. The pilot is initially funded for 12 months, however with strong clinical evidence of effectiveness there is opportunity to extend this funding substantively. We seek to recruit a team of dedicated professionals who will be expected to join a team based training in October 2024 to enable mobilization of the service in early 2025.
The East London CAMHS DBT Service will provide high intensity, effective; evidence-based psychological treatment for adolescents with traits and/or diagnosis of an (emerging) Borderline Personality Disorder, including self-harm and suicidality.
The successful candidate will have a qualification in an appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Systemic Psychotherapy, Clinical/ Educational Psychology, Child Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Social Work, with up to date registration.
Please note that the successful candidate for this position will be required to attend a two-day course titled "Advanced Clinical Skills in DBT: Skills for DBT Team Leaders to Promote Team Adherence," scheduled for October 10-11, 2024. The course will be conducted via Zoom. You will be compensated for the two days of training or can opt to take the time back as TOIL at a later date., + Working autonomously within professional guidelines to undertake specialist assessments and systematically provide a highly specialised evidence-based therapy (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) to users of community-based mental health teams who are experiencing complex emotional needs associated with an emerging or diagnosis of moderate to severe 'personality disorder' and cope by engaging in suicidal and self-harming behaviour.
+ Supervising psychotherapeutic assessments and evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions delivered by trainees, psychological therapists and clinical members of community based mental health teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment to people with complex emotional needs., · To provide inspirational operational and clinical leadership of disciplinary clinicians in the team to ensure young people experiencing serious mental illness have access to evidence-based assessments and treatment
· To support the shaping and development of Service and Trust strategy and support the delivery of CAMHS priorities and objectives through an effective operational multidisciplinary management model.
To ensure the team has strong and effective links with other relevant services across the localities, including representing the service on appropriate multiagency groups, communicating highly complex information and contributing to the overall development of services.
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Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.