Advanced Dbt Practitioner

This opportunity is for a mental health practitioner with a professional qualification to work within a specialist CAMHS DBT Service, which has recently been short-listed for several national awards

The role as an Advanced DBT Practitioner involves offering individual therapy, group skills training, telephone coaching, and to be an active member of a DBT Consultation team. There are also opportunities to get involved with teaching and training.

The post is part of CAMHS specialist services within HPFT, supported by NHS England’s innovative ‘Testing New Care Models in tertiary mental health services’ programme (Wave 2). Our new model of care for Tertiary Services has been designed to transform local service provision in Hertfordshire by integrating the Tier 4 and Tier 3 CAMHS pathways, to ensure that young people across the county can access the services that meet their needs at the right time.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
**Our Trust values are**:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on

**Job Summary**:
The post-holder will be a member of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Outpatient Service within CAMHS. This is part of an exciting expansion of CAMHS specialist services within HPFT. The remit of the DBT Outpatient Service is to offer young people referred into the service a consistent evidence-based therapeutic approach, to reduce inpatient admissions and to support the quick transitions of those in an inpatient service back to the DBT Outpatient Service. The Mental Health Practitioner will work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver specialist DBT assessments and interventions to young people and their families who are referred by other CAMHS services. The post holder will also be involved in liaising with other CAMHS services to ensure clear transitions for young people entering or leaving the DBT Outpatient Service and where appropriate supporting the transition to Adult Services. The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own core profession. The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development. The post-holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.

**Key Relationships**:

- Multidisciplinary colleagues within the DBT Service, including other Mental Health Practitioners (Band 6 and Band 7); Clinical/Counselling Psychologist; and Consultant Psychiatrist
- Colleagues from across CAMHS Tier 3 and Tier 4 Services, including the Home Treatment Team
- Clients, their families, carers and other external agencies
- Professional Lead for Psychological Services (CAMHS)/Professional Lead for Social Work (CAMHS)/Modern Matron/Lead for AHPs
- Consultant leads in CAMHS

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with problems of behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, using the highly specialist Dialectical Behavioural Therapy approach.
- To operate as a member of the multi-disciplinary Outpatient DBT Service to provide a high standard of service to children, adolescents and their families who have been referred to the DBT Outpatient Service and to professionals from other organisations. They will be responsible for assessing and treating children, young people and their famili