PD Senior Practitioner/Acute Liaison

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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Job overview

The post-holder will primarily offer liaison to the Acute Wards in Enfield relating directly to the service users with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder who are being considered for admission or already an inpatient . This will include attending ward rounds and team meetings to offer trauma-informed consultation and clinical advice to Acute teams as well as delivering training and supervision.

The role aims to use experience and clinical knowledge to increase the capacity of the teams delivering care to meet the needs of this service user group as well as enhance the experience of the service users in the least restrictive environment possible. Therefore, understanding risk and a confidence in discharge planning is an essential skill for the post holder. The post holder will undertake urgent assessments on behalf of the Personality Disorder Pathway, supervising team members from the ward and the Community Teams to take up the outcomes and recommendations of these.

The post holder will lead on ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users. They will also support the development, implementation and embedding of trauma informed practice on the Acute wards.

Main duties of the job

• To provide skilled trauma-informed assessments of patients' emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources
• To evaluate and make decisions about trauma-informed treatment plans in conjunction with the MDT
• To formulate and implement plans for the management of the patient's mental health problems, informed by the Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation-Based Treatment model, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or another appropriate psychological model.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans for patients and to monitor progress together with the MDT
• To demonstrate, through case supervision and clinical meetings, the explicit implementation of a Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation Based Treatment or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy informed approach to all clinical work and reflective practice groups.
• To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects
• To provide advice, consultation, training and skills development to acute ward colleagues and community colleagues

Working for our organisation

Working for North London Mental Health Partnership

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.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification document for more thorough information about the post.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• Core health professional qualification (Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist)
• Registration with the appropriate professional body (NMC, Social Work England, HCPC, UKCP, BACP, BABCP etc).
• Basic Training Certificate in Structured Clinical Management, Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) or in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Desirable criteria

• Working towards Accredited Practitioner Status in SCM, MBT or DBT

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Working with patients with severe and complex mental health problems
• Demonstrable substantial experience of working directly with patients with Personality Disorder, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment
• Experience of the psychological assessment of Personality Disorder, including risk assessment

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering training to different disciplines and professions.
• Experience of the supervision process and ability to offer effective supervision to staff at different levels.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of delivering psychological care and treatment according to a multidisciplinary care plan and under supervision

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional group
• Training and advanced skills in a specialised approach such as psycho-social interventions, dual diagnosis, personality disorder.
• Knowledge of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
• To be able to assess the mental state and risk for a wide range of patients with mental health problems and specifically for patients with personality disorder
• Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a senior clinician and role model.
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service.
• Ability to teach staff and provide advice and support to other agencies/professionals
• Experience of effective communication with other key stakeholders at a variety of levels.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria

• Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• Ability to manage stress and work under pressure
• Ability to demonstrate BEH Trust Values

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential criteria

• IT skills including email, word processing and basic data base.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Organised and good time management skills

Desirable criteria

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 640.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 258.2KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)