DBT Lead (Mental Health Nurse) - Oxford

TN United Kingdom; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a DBT lead nurse for the Highfield Unit. This role involves managing the ward, delivering Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to young patients, and working within a multidisciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have a nursing degree and experience in mental health care, with opportunities for further training and career progression.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount across shops and restaurants

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree Qualification - RMN required.
• Experience in mental health care or care of young people.
• Knowledge of DBT and mental illness treatments.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and manage the ward during shifts.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for young persons.
• Deliver high quality holistic nursing care.

Skills

Mental health care

DBT knowledge

Therapeutic relationship building

Education

Degree Qualification - RMN

Further training in psychosocial interventions

Job description

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Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Headington Quarry, United Kingdom

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Posted:

21.05.2025

Expiry Date:

05.07.2025

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Job overview

At the Highfield Unit, the nursing team are at the heart of the unit and are central to inpatient care delivery. You will work alongside a dedicated and robust multidisciplinary team to ensure that quality care is planned for and achieved.

This is an opportunity for a DBT lead for the ward; this will involve additional training and development of expertise to assist the team, young person and family in the understanding and benefits of DBT.

You will be supported to be part of the team delivering the inpatient DBT model on the ward and also reviewing and developing this further.

This opportunity could be for any RMN whatever stage in their career; whether newly qualified nurses wanting to build a solid foundation of knowledge within inpatient mental health care, or for those at a later stage in their career looking for new learning opportunities and challenges.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the ward for a span of duty
• To assist in every aspect of the management of the inpatient unit and day care provision
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to young persons and carers
• To provide high quality holistic nursing care to young persons and carers
• To work and contribute to a dedicated and skilled nursing team
• To contribute to the development of Highfield Unit services
• To assist the leadership, delivery and development of the units adapted DBT inpatient package and care.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a member of the nursing team you would be supported to work collaboratively with young people and their families to build therapeutic relationships, along with other professionals involved in their care. Training and supervision is provided to develop individual and group therapeutic work. We pride ourselves on nurturing and supporting nurses to deliver professional, thoughtful, high quality compassionate nursing care when young people need it the most.

We are keen to support all nurses to develop their own leadership skill to enable them to feel competent at managing shift and team coordination and supervising junior staff. Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. The Highfield Unit has a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities and further their development.

All nurses at the Highfield Unit are encouraged to develop areas of specialist interest and be provided with many opportunities for research. You will be motivated and dynamic about service improvement and passionate about providing quality and creative care to adolescents.

As a DBT lead you will receive appropriate DBT training to ensure you feel skilled and confident in your abilities. You will be supported to help facilitate weekly DBT Groups and also deliver DBT individual packages on the ward. We would like you to review the current package offered and you will work closely with the whole team how to improve and make the DBT model as accessible for all whilst considering the population group.

You will be supported to share and teach the team around DBT and will be part of reflections and support with the community teams.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree Qualification - RMN
• Further training in psychosocial interventions

Experience

• Experience in mental health care or the care of young people (e.g. within CAMHS).
• Experience of working within an CAMHS inpatient unit

Knowledge

• Knowledge of mental illness and its treatments relating to young people
• Knowledge of DBT
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing