Senior Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Northampton Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Would you like to work for an Outstanding NHS Trust, and join an innovative and supportive service that is highly committed to decreasing stigma associated with personality difficulties, promoting optimism about recovery, and increasing access to evidence-based interventions? We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner with expertise in working with adolescents and young adults with persistent emotion regulation difficulties. An opportunity has arisen to join our specialist multidisciplinary team as a Senior Practitioner, offering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT-A) to young people and their caregivers. The post is based in Northampton and involves travel to other locations across the county.

We are passionate about developing a workforce that reflects, and can work with, the diversity of local communities and want to ensure that we are offering a service that celebrates difference and diversity, and which is culturally sensitive. We are particularly under-represented in staff from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds and disabled communities and actively encourage applications from these communities.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Practitioner you'll be expected to

  • Develop formulation-driven care plans with service users and colleagues via consultation and direct assessment
  • Delivery of DBT-A including individual, group and family DBT
  • Provide training to staff, service users and carers and work collaboratively with experts by experience to co-develop and deliver training.
  • Contribute to a range of service development projects

The post holder will need to have:

  • Experience of working with young people with persistent emotional dysregulation and high-risk coping behaviours (emergent personality disorder) and their caregivers. Be passionate about reducing exclusion and stigma for this client group
  • A core mental health profession and demonstrate an ongoing interest in developing competencies in working with people with 'personality disorder' (eg via training in evidence based approaches, areas of specialism within existing roles)
  • Self-awareness and an ability to reflect on their own emotions
  • Good communication and team working skills in order to collaborate with a variety of groups and stakeholders
  • Leadership skills

You will need to be well organised and able to maintain a compassionate stance in potentially challenging situations and high-pressure environments. Flexibility is required as there may be some travelling to/from different sites across the county. It is expected that the post holder will develop in role and therefore may not meet all aspects of the job description on application.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential


  • Recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, social work and occupational therapy or other relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field in the N.H.S (e.g. by maintaining registration with the HCPC and/or your recognised professional body).
  • Significant experience of working in a mental health profession (or equivalent), and in a therapeutic role with people with significant personality difficulties
  • Demonstrate evidence of substantial post qualification training and interest in psychosocial approaches and working with people with personality disorders and complex emotional needs
  • Autonomously organising and managing a complex caseload of patients who are suffering from severe difficulties and who require highly specialist therapies/intervention
  • Knowledge and practice of specialised therapies specific to treating complex presentations pertaining to personality difficulties
  • Awareness and appreciation of equality and diversity issues

Desirable


  • For professionals whose core training isn't in delivering psychological therapy, significant post-qualification training in a psychological approach
  • Experience of working collaboratively with service user representatives and organisations.
  • Experience of facilitating group interventions

Skills

Essential


  • Communicating clearly, effectively and sensitively with patients, particularly when presenting highly complex and contentious issues in a high-risk situation
  • To demonstrate clear strategies of maintaining psychological well-being when working with intense emotions and distressing material
  • Has the capacity to use reflective practice and supervision as an aid to understanding and development

Desirable


  • IT and keyboard skills
  • Ability to undertake flexible working hours

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Lotus House

Victoria Street

Northampton

NN1 3NR

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