DBT Practitioner

Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership, The post holder will be joining a newly developed DBT pathway and will be working closely with the Barnet Adult Psychology Team and the Complex Emotional Needs pathway team.
Ideally you will have a strong enthusiasm to work in a psychological informed way and had experience of DBT, but this is not essential as training will be provided.
The post holder will provide formal DBT psychological interventions using a trauma -informed approach whilst undertaking necessary training to upskill for this role as required.
You will be joining a creative and dynamic multidisciplinary team with a track record of providing high quality psychological interventions with a strong ethos of trauma informed care., · Jointly assess patients for suitability for DBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for level of experience refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
To formulate and implement DBT focused treatment plans, in particular identifying repeating patterns of crisis and advise ways of altering these, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems.
To educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying DBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
· To support the implementation of a range of DBT psychological interventions (group and individual) for prospective patients.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To work closely with referrers, services and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
To deal appropriately with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which may be highly distressing on a daily basis and to work with frequently intense concentration for the clinical sessions of assessment and therapy.

Working for our organisation
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.
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
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis., · To provide a high-quality DBT treatment to patients with complex mental health problems, in particular people with complex emotional needs (CEN) associated with the diagnosis of Personality Disorder, such as attachment, interpersonal difficulties and emotional intensity. This will include specialist assessment to determine the most appropriate treatment
To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of client's mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in particular DBT and SCM models developed within the service for the treatment of personality disorder
To act as Key worker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under Dialog+ including patients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care in consultation with the MDT.
To utilise clinical and team supervision, to demonstrate autonomy for treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed with a psychologically-based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
To provide guidance and consultation to MDT teams and other professionals contributing directly to patients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence.
To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management pertaining to patients with personality disorders.