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Job summary

Main area
Personality Disorder
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 14 months (FT 14 months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0366
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Ann's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£53,751 - £60,651 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/09/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Clinician - Personality Disorders

Band 7

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

Haringey Personality Disorder Pathway - Senior Clinician, Band 7 (OT, Social worker, psychologist, psychotherapist RMN) , temporary, maternity leave cover

We currently have a vacancy for a senior clinician to join our well established and supportive team. 

The  successful applicant will have experience working with patients who have a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. They will have undertaken MBT and/or SCM  training or have experience in teams using these approaches.

Holding a caseload of patients within the Pathway who are part of the MBT or SCM programme, They will deliver group or individual treatment as well as completing assessments and providing supervision to junior staff.  There will be opportunities to develop both clinical and managerial roles within the post. 

Within the PD pathway there is an emphasis on team based, multi-disciplinary decision making.  There is  close liaison with other community mental health teams and acute services.  Supervision is provided individually and in groups. This lends itself to a supportive environment where risk management is shared in the process of treatment planning and delivery.

 

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) and SCM to a caseload of  individuals,  and facilitate groups in the Personality Disorder Pathway

Liaise with other professionals to provide continuity of care across acute care,  Primary care teams, Core mental health teams,  and the PD Pathway.

Undertake general mental health assessments and specialist assessments for personality disorder

Formulate and implement  treatment plans and provide Structured Clinical Management / Mentalisation-based therapy.

Provide supervision to junior members of the team

Participate in the day to day emotional work of the MDT, and overall service development and maintenance. 

 

Working for our organisation

NLFT is a Foundation Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. 

NLFT has a mature and supportive specialist personality disorder service  which offers psychologically informed community mental health care and specialist treatment to clients with personality disorders and complex emotional needs

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • RMN/Occupational Therapy/Social work/Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate.
  • MBT in a treatment setting.
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching/Mentorship Qualification.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
  • Evidence of ability to effectively manage a team.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing.
  • Ability to work within multidisciplinary team autonomously.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential criteria
  • The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cath Sunderland
Job title
Haringey PD Pathway Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8702 3963

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