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Senior Liaison Clinician - Personality Disorders | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7054989/455-BEH-0093 |
Summary
The PD Pathway acts as a specialist community mental health team to patients with personality disorder. The Pathway provides specialist assessment, MBT, SCM and consultation and advice to other teams. DBT is being developed in the team.
The core element of this post will to be to coordinate all referrals into the Pathway from the acute wards, Crisis and Home treatment team and Psychiatric Liaison Service. A key target is to minimise ward admissions and provide expert clinical guidance to staff in acute psychiatric services.
The postholder will provide specialist assessment of clients referred from acute services.
In addition the postholder will have a caseload of patients within the Pathway who may be part of the MBT programme or Structured Clinical Management treatment, or, when developed DBT.
This post includes a broad range of duties such as participating in research and audit and contributing to service development.
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.
Liaise with other professionals to provide continuity of care across acute care and other services.
To provide specialist Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) and/or DBT and/or SCM to a caseload of individuals, and facilitate groups in the Personality Disorder Pathway
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.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 11 May 2025