Job summary
- Main area
- DBT Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondments will be considered)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1.00 WTE)
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3115
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS DBT Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
We are pleased, following further fixed term investment, to recruit a full time band 7 post into our DBT-A service. Whittington Health has been providing the DBT-A service for over 2 year, providing high quality and intensive therapeutic work for young people presenting with significant emotional dysregulation.
DBT is an evidence-based treatment for people presenting with recurrent self- harm and emotional dysregulation and will be included in the new updated NICE guidelines for the management of children and young people presenting with self- harm. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our team and contribute to the development of a new innovative service. The CAMHS DBT service will deliver the full DBT programme, consisting of weekly individual therapeutic work, group sessions, family session, care coordination and telephone coaching. The team will hold a caseload of up to 20-25 young people at one time.
Clinicians will offer the full range of DBT intervention to a small and defined caseload, between 5-10 young people, according to their job plan agreements.
Main duties of the job
DBT experience is not essential to the role, however experience of therapeutic work with young people and risk management is desirable. If you are not already trained, you will be offered full DBT training, alongside a supportive and inclusive working environment. The service will receive consultation and support by the National & Specialist CAMHS DBT service in the early stages of its development to ensure adherence to the DBT model and consolidation of clinical skills in the team. Candidates will have experience of working therapeutically with young people, alongside some risk management experience and experience of inter-agency liaison.
We welcome applicants from any core profession, (Registered Mental Health Nurses, Counselling/Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, CBT Therapists and Systemic Therapists), with interest and experience in working with young people who present with self harm, clinical complexity and risk, and their families, and enthusiasm and commitment to innovation and clinical excellence. We encourage you to get in touch with us and discuss this exciting role.
There is also scope to gain experience in the wider Islington CAMHS service as part of this role.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist DBT assessment and formulation to children and young people (CYP) referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and semi-structured interviews.
- To design and implement plans for the formal DBT treatment and/or management of a CYP’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions based upon evidence of treatment efficacy, and clinical formulation of the case.
- To evaluate and make decisions about DBT treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic DBT models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To deliver adjunctive therapy groups (e.g. DBT first Steps groups, Managing Emotions) – monitoring outcomes and modifying interventions accordingly
- To engage in the assessment, treatment, and discharge of CYP within a multi-disciplinary team approach
- To provide specialist DBT advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
- To provide care-coordination and attend and contribute to Team Meetings.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a DBT based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all CYPs in the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual CYP and to provide advice to other professionals on DBT approaches to risk assessment and risk management.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment and DBT treatment plans of clients under their care, and to monitor progress during treatment.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A qualification in one of the following; BABCP Qualification in DBT and accreditation with the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy core professions with appropriate associated professional registrations: Nursing, Social work, Occupational therapy, Clinical psychology, Counselling psychology
Desirable criteria
- BABCP Qualification in DBT and accreditation with the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in child mental health, and in particular CAMHS
- Experience of assessment and treatment of children and young people with mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity, using evidence based psychological therapies, particularly DBT
- Experience in assessing for DBT and application of DBT Experience of using supervision to address and resolve clinical and professional dilemmas
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Experience of work with CYP with eating disorders
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of DBT assessment, intervention and management
- Advanced practitioner skills in DBT
- Knowledge and skill in safeguarding processes for children, young people and vulnerable adults
Desirable criteria
- Intensive DBT training• Skills in the production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in a medico-legal setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daryl Parker
- Job title
- DBT Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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