Advanced Practitioner

Cumbria,-Northumberland,-Tyne-and-Wear-Nhs-Foundation-Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lease cars

Childcare schemes

Staff discounts

Season tickets for travel

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for an Advanced Practitioner within the Personality Disorder Hub. You will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, and care coordination for individuals with complex emotional and personality difficulties who may be high risk.

The role requires working with a multidisciplinary team, coordinating multi-agency care, and contributing to risk management and treatment planning across the North-East region,

Qualifications

• First level registered professional qualification.
• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience in evidence based treatments relating to people with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties.
• Student Assessor

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, care coordination and therapy for those with complex emotional and personality difficulties.
• Coordinate input from services to maintain coherent, formulation-based, goal-oriented care.
• Deliver safety, stabilisation and therapeutic interventions to support stability.
• Apply SCM, trauma stabilisation, DBT and MBT during unstable care phases.
• Support a wide range of community teams, inpatient staff and third sector providers.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Supervision skills

Clinical skills

SCM & trauma work

Education

First level registered professional qualification

Degree or equivalent qualification

Student Assessor

Job description

Employer Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Benfield House, Walkergate Park Town Newcastle Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59

Advanced Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

Hello!

We are so delighted you are considering coming to work with us at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).

We know the power of looking into an organisation, one you might want to work in, or one where you are going to get help, and being able to say, ‘I’ve seen somewhere I can fit in and be myself.’ We’re on a journey to make the Trust an inclusive employer, representative of the community we serve and we want more of our community to consider applying for jobs with us.

Opportunities for you

Spanning east to west coasts from Northumberland to Cumbria and from the Scottish Borders down to Middlesbrough we’ve got exciting new opportunities available at every level and in every area.

We offer flexible working, helping work fit around family and caring responsibilities, or training and development needs and there’s lots on offer in the way of benefits, such as, lease cars, childcare schemes, staff discounts, season tickets for travel and a cycle to work scheme. All this in a vibrant workplace supported by the following staff networks.

• Cultural diversity staff network
• Disabled staff network
• LGBT+ staff network

We also have a number of staff support groups which are open to any staff to attend. These Include:

• Armed Forces and Veterans Staff Network
• Mind, Health and Wellbeing Community
• Menopause toolkit and cafes and staff carer support group

We offer fantastic personal development opportunities through our Collective Leadership Programme and other Organisational Development initiatives. Whatever you are looking for, you will be joining a supportive, friendly team, offering varied and interesting roles, with opportunities for career progression.

We’re always seeking to improve as an organisation. Do you want to be part of that?

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all external applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay

Job overview

The Personality Disorder Hub are recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner who is interested in further developing their specialist skills. As an Advanced Practitioner you will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, care co-ordination and therapeutic interventions for people who present with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties combined with high risk to self.

The role will have a focus on co-ordinating complex, multi-agency care needs and supporting formulation-based clinical decision-making. The Advanced Practitioner will hold a relatively small care co-ordination caseload, taking responsibility for co-ordinating and integrating different elements of a person’s care and ensuring that psychological formulation informs clinical decision-making, risk management and therapeutic intervention.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure that care plans are holistic, effective, goal orientated and person centred.

As a team we understand the importance of wellbeing and building resilience. We have a strong reflective culture, providing protected time and forums for learning, growth and development.

Although the post will be primarily based within the South Tyneside and Sunderland locality, the team operates across the North-East region, therefore, there will be a requirement to travel across the region as part of this role.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, care co-ordination and therapeutic intervention for a small number of service users who present primarily with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties, co-existing conditions and high risk to self.
• You will work closely with relevant professionals and agencies, co-ordinating input from relevant services and ensuring the overall care plan remains coherent, formulation-based, goal-orientated and person centred.
• The focus of your input will be on providing safety, stabilisation, individual and wider system containment and the delivery of therapeutic interventions designed to support greater emotional and relational stability.
• Your practice will be guided by providing adapted forms of Structured Clinical Management (SCM), trauma stabilisation, Dialectical Behaviour therapy (DBT) and Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) during the most unstable phase of a service user’s care pathway.
• There will also be the opportunity to provide scaffolding to a wide range of community teams, inpatient staff and third sector providers.

Working for our organisation

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the main job description for further details about the main responsibilities and person specification.

Date advertised - 15th October 2026

We welcome your application.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• First level registered professional qualification, e.g. RNMH, RMN, RNLD, Social Worker, OT, Clinical Psychologist, other.
• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience in evidence based treatments relating to people with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties.
• Student Assessor

Knowledge and Experience

• Commitment to multiagency and multidisciplinary working
• Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines for people with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties
• Proven ability to manage a caseload in a flexible manner as required.
• Experience of managing complex cases and risk with people who have complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation and conflict management
• Expert clinical supervision skills
• Evidence based advanced clinical skills
• Experience of Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and trauma stabilisation work.

Role/Team Specific

• Knowledge of and particular interest in working with people who present with complex emotional and relational difficulties
• Ability to meet the mobility and geographical requirements of the post

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

Please ensure to check out all of the supporting documents linked to this advert, for useful information about working for us, information from our Chief Executive and much more.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.