About this role
Job summary
Applications are welcomed for this exciting opportunity to lead the Maudsley's National and Specialist CAMHS DBT Service. We are one of the most established DBT-A programmes in the UK and in addition to our core clinical offer we also provide training, consultation and supervision to other programmes and CAMHS clinicians. We are research active with a particular focus on adapting DBT for minoritized groups and developing and evaluating novel, DBT-informed interventions for young people and parent/carers that can be offered as early interventions. The successful candidate will provide clinical and operational leadership for the DBT team and these various activities and will also have opportunities to work with the N&S CAMHS Senior Leadership Group on wider organisational developments and to contribute to shaping a culture of collective leadership within the directorate.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will support the day-to-day operation of the DBT service. As the clinical lead you will be responsible for ensuring fidelity to the evidence-based DBT model, promoting adherent practice within the team, as well as holding a small caseload of DBT clients. Along with the other senior clinicians in the service, you will provide senior cover across the week by being available when team members require consultation and guidance on managing complex clinical dilemmas relating to risk and safeguarding concerns. You will also lead on certain service developments, evaluations and research and provide training, supervision and consultation to DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally. You will be responsible for monitoring programme outcomes and ensuring Trust performance targets are met. You will also work with the Senior Management Team to ensure the service operates within its budgetary requirements. You will need to have considerable experience of working within a DBT programme at a senior level and an ability to provide effective supervision and support around complex clinical and workforce challenges. You will demonstrate an ability to build strong relationships both within and outside of the team that foster collaboration, respect, and problem-solving of team and organisational dilemmas. You will have a passion for fostering team wellbeing and culture and a capacity to balance consultation to the team with a more directive approach.
About us
The National & Specialist CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service is a well-established and supportive team based at the Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital. The multi-disciplinary team of DBT Therapists consists of Clinical Psychologists, a Senior Systemic Psychotherapist, Nurses, a Social Worker, Clinical Psychologists in Training and an Assistant Psychologist. We also have in-house support from a Consultant Psychiatrist and a Higher Trainee Psychiatrist. The service accepts referrals within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Greater London Boroughs and nationally.As a service we offer an intensive psychological assessment and treatment programme, including weekly skills groups for adolescents and parents/carers. Young people aged 13-17 years, with a history of self-harm and suicidal behaviour and difficulties with emotion regulation are eligible for the programme. The service also offers trauma-focused interventions where needed for those who are able to complete the first stage of DBT and we regularly treat young people with other clinical comorbidities.DBT is a NICE guideline recommended evidence-based therapy. DBT has been shown to be effective with clients with self-harm and suicidal behaviours and symptoms associated with emotion dysregulation.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Purpose: To develop strategy for and lead, manage and plan the delivery of a highly specialist psychological therapy service and personally provide expert clinical input. To be responsible to the relevant professional lead for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of psychological therapy in the service and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and the research agenda To be develop standards for and take a lead in ensuring the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of psychological professionals in the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Entry-level qualification as set out below and demonstrable practice in one of the roles below (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of one of the professional registrations below. (A/I) Registered with professional body as appropriate (see above) to discipline: HCPC/UKCP/ACP/ BPC/BABCP. Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of relevant specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of relevant supervised practice-based learning in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I)
Desirable
Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience (A/I) Completed DBT-Prolonged Exposure Intensive training (4 days)
Experience Essential
Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in a comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programme. (A/I) Experience of undertaking leadership roles (A/I) Experience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training. (A/I)
Desirable
Experience of supervising qualified mental health practitioners in their roles as DBT therapists. (A/I) Experience of providing supervision to DBT teams and to other teams providing DBT-informed interventions. (A/I)
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership. (A/I) Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological practice/processes and their therapeutic application relevant to this speciality.
Skills Essential
To deliver specialist therapy across cultural and other differences. (A/I) To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I) Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups (A/I)
Abilities Essential
Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I) Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I) Ability to manage highly complex situations involving multiple difficulties, and competing/conflicting views about those difficulties; and to help create contexts that develop systemic engagement, and harness the strengths and abilities of those involved in order to work towards solutions (A/I)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People (PMCYP)
S L A M NHS Foundation Trust
London
SE5 8AZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)