Joint CAMHS DBT Lead
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,387.00 to £80,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70387.00 - £80465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, N7 6LB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0358 |
Summary
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 nonpsychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other nonprofessional 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 Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity