Senior Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Northampton, 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.

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

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.

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.



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