Joint CAMHS DBT Lead

Whittington Health; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Part time

Job summary

Whittington Health is seeking a Joint Lead for the North Central London CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service. This pivotal role requires strong leadership to improve service delivery while providing specialist psychological care. The successful candidate will join a dedicated team focused on positive outcomes for children and young people, contributing to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• DBT trained or extensive experience in DBT in outpatient settings.
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment.
• Significant clinical experience dealing with complex mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead the service and oversee clinical practice.
• Ensure provision of high-quality care and lead on clinical outcomes.
• Provide psychological assessment and therapy within the DBT service.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Psychology

DBT Skills

Neuropsychological Assessment

Education

Qualification in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Child Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy, or CBT Therapy

DBT Trained (Intensive)

Post qualification training in clinical supervision

Job description

Main area Children & Young Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract 12 months (Fixed Term until June 2026 - secondments can be considered) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (0.6 sessions / 3 days per week) Job ref 220-WHT-3112

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern Health Centre, Town London Salary £70,387 - £80,465 pro-rata per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/2025 23:59

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Job overview

Following the partial promotion of the current post-holder, we are seeking a Joint Lead for the North Central London CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service. Our service, established in January 2023, provides DBT across all 5 North Central London Boroughs: Islington, Camden, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.

Since its establishment, our service has demonstrated effective and positive outcomes for a range of young people. Alongside delivering high quality therapeutic work to young people, their parents/carers, we have also expanded to deliver Family Connections and DBT Skills Training for staff across NCL.

This is a really exciting time to join our team, supporting the existing Lead to continue to improve outcomes, expand into new areas and maintain our high standards of care. Our team benefits from a very positive culture, and we would welcome applicants with strong leadership qualities, who are able to positively contribute to our service. We are particularly interested in applicants from a diverse background, supporting our continued efforts to ensure our teams represent those that we provide care to.

The post holder will work very closely with the NCL CYP MH leadership team, clinicians and managers across Tier 4 units, CAMHS and crisis teams, the NCEL collaborative and other stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

· To work alongside the existing post holder, co-leading the service in defined yet complimentary aspects of the DBT team.

· More widely, to work alongside our Whittington Health CAMHS clinical lead and Joint Head of CAMHS and Associate Director for CAMHS, NCL and NCEL CYP mental health leads and other stakeholders, to continued to expand the NCL CAMHS DBT Service.

· To support and lead on our clinical model and the team recruitment, create and implement policies and procedures as appropriate to ensure the provision of safe and high quality care, and lead on the monitoring of clinical outcomes, audit, research and quality improvement.

· To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the NCL DBT Service with particular regard to the provision of DBT, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CYP-IAPT

· To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non‑professional carers

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 work alongside the existing post holder, co-leading the service in defined yet complimentary aspects of the DBT team.

· More widely, to work alongside our Whittington Health CAMHS clinical lead and Joint Head of CAMHS and Associate Director for CAMHS, NCL and NCEL CYP mental health leads and other stakeholders, to continued to expand the NCL CAMHS DBT Service.

· To support and lead on our clinical model and the team recruitment, create and implement policies and procedures as appropriate to ensure the provision of safe and high quality care, and lead on the monitoring of clinical outcomes, audit, research and quality improvement.

· To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to service users of the NCL DBT Service with particular regard to the provision of DBT, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CYP-IAPT

· To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non‑professional carers

· The post holder will be responsible for the continued development of the specialist psychology resources within the NCL DBT Service and for the work undertaken by them. Providing clinical and professional supervision to less experienced practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and mental health practitioners within the DBT Outpatient Service and as agreed with the appropriate operational manager and Professional/Consultant Leads

· The post-holder will offer Specialist/Specific work as Therapy Lead of the NCL CAMHS DBT Service

· To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the DBT Service MDT, including taking an active part in MDT meetings.

· To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the DBT Service

· To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research

· To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service

· All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

• A qualification in one of the following core professions with appropriate associated professional registrations: • Nursing • Social work • Occupational therapy • Clinical psychology • Counselling psychology • Child Psychotherapist • Systemic Therapist • CBT Therapist
• DBT Trained (Intensive) or extensive equivalent experience of working within the model in an outpatient setting
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment

Experience

• Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. Typically this would involve significant experience at highly specialist level, or its equivalent demonstrated through CV and interview
• Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment
• Delivery of DBT in a clinical setting
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision

Skills and Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems).

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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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.

Name Daryl Parker Job title NCL CAMHS DBT Lead / Joint Head of Islington CAMHS Email address [e-mail]

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