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Mental Health Team Manager

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service- Therapies Team Manager- Practitioner Psychologist


This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Practitioner Psychologist to lead the psychological provision within a specialist personality disorder service.

The service offers Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Personality Disorder (DIT).


The post will be part of the service leadership team and will work closely with the psychology lead for complex emotional needs and head of mood services to ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service.


We are looking for someone who is keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough and has experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties, specifically personality disorder from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

We are particularly keen to attract people from our local communities.

The main duty of the role is to provide effective clinical leadership and management within the Therapies Team, including the provision of clinical supervision and line.

The post holder will be an integral member of both the therapies team and senior leadership of the personality disorder and will work alongside the Psychology Lead for Complex Emotional Needs and the Head of Mood Service to ensure the safe, effective and high-quality service.

The role will include clinical duties including assessment, formulation and treatment to service-users.

The role will also involve screening referrals to the service, liaising with referrers and communicating referral decisions to service-users and those within their network.

Consultation to professionals within a service user's network will be a key duty.

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.


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.

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.

The ideal candidate will have previously worked within a service which offers MBT and/or DBT and have experience of assessment, individual and group components of the therapies.

To lead the therapies team to take part in the triage function of the service, providing consultation, information and advice to service users and partners as well as allocation of new work in the service to appropriate MDT colleagues.

To provide professional and clinical supervision of junior psychologists, trainee clinical and counselling psychologists and assistant psychologists.

To ensure line management, appraisals to staff within the therapies team and ensuring opportunities for continued professional development.


Lead on and collaborate with others of research clinical audits and service evaluations ensuring practice meets best professional and evidence-based standards.


To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

To provide teaching and training as required both within the Organisation and externally.
Post graduate training in at least one of the following, DBT or MBT.
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Professions Council and British Psychological Society

Formal training in leadership and management skills.
Accredited by the relevant training organisation as an accredited supervisor in either MBT, DBT

Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours.

Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Interest and ability to contribute to service development.

Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.

Substantial post-qualification experience working with service users whose difficulties can be understood as Personality Disorder.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Experience of the management of practitioner qualified and/or psychological therapy staff.
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Personal Qualities
Ability to move between different levels of context in a single day: e.g.

offering a clinical service to very different service user groups experiencing a wide variety of serious difficulties switching between clinical work, supervision, consultation, teaching, strategic thinking and planning and able to conceptualise at the highest level in order to assist colleagues.

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Lowther Road Integrated Community Mental Health Centre

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