Clinical Practitioner in Personality Disorder

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job Overview
We are looking for a motivated person who is keen to contribute to and learn more about working with people with complex emotional needs within a secondary care community mental health setting.
You will join a friendly team of psychological therapy professionals from a variety of backgrounds, and you will need to have training in a core mental health profession, including counselling, psychotherapy, nursing or social work.
You may already have some training in DBT or MBT, but we will provide training and regular supervision from a psychologist.
You may be looking for a full-time or a part-time job- let us know what will work best for you.
If you are an enthusiastic clinician or practitioner, who is keen to try and upskill themselves and advance into becoming a more established community CEN practitioner then we want to hear from you.
This post holder will be a member of a Hillingdon Community Mental Health hub Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) service, and work sensitively to engage hard-to-engage service users who may be traumatized and exhibit emotional dysregulation and self-harm. Our service users often need preparation to engage with formal psychological interventions and your job will be to work with them towards engaging in psychological therapy that can lead to change.
We offer a range of appropriate evidence-based, health interventions for clients with more complex and severe, enduring mental illnesses (SMI) providing interventions and working within the DIALOG+ framework.
These include offering a period of stabilisation using the Trust Safety and Stabilisation materials.
To liaise effectively with colleagues from Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) and HTT, offering advice on potential referrals, conducting joint assessments (where appropriate), and contributing to discussions on recommendations for future treatment and management.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is committed to workforce development and is keen to enable the successful applicant to innovate and evolve with the service. We have recently transformed to the new Hub model, so it is an exciting opportunity to join the team.
We are a multidisciplinary service, comprising of mental health nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, employment specialists, mental health well-being practitioners and peer support workers. The team is supported by a good administrative system and offers an excellent work environment. We have good links with local statutory and non-statutory services.
We offer Regular individual and group supervision
There are opportunities for flexible working and some remote working is part of the job.
Additional Information.
At CNWL we are fully committed and proud to develop our workforce through training and development opportunities and this post is no different.
This post is an opportunity to work in our Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) as either an existing Band 5 or the post will offer an additional support programme to develop the post holder to become a safe and effective community mental health Band 6 CEN practitioner.
To work sensitively to engage hard-to-engage service users who may be traumatized and exhibit emotional dysregulation and self-harm.
To work carefully to reduce self-harm and other crises.
To Co-facilitate a range of therapy groups including psychoeducation groups, Managing emotions Groups, Safety and Stabilisation Groups, Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Based Treatment (DBT).
To use psycho-educational and self-help materials for people with complex personality difficulties across the CEN pathway from the time of first referral and presentation to the CMHH.
Emergency assessments, as clinically indicated.
To initiate and carry through safeguarding where appropriate.
To be able to work with service users within intimate and emotionally intense individual and group sessions, where their behaviour may be unpredictable and challenging while maintaining emotional equilibrium, and appropriate boundaries.
To undertake risk assessments and manage risk as part of the treatment process to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all when faced with threats of verbal abuse, deliberate self-harm and violence to self and/or others.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

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