Leadership post heading the National and Specialist CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy service at the Maudsley, based at the Michael Rutter Centre within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The holder provides clinical and operational leadership, keeps the service faithful to the DBT model, holds a small caseload and supervises the team, with senior cover across the week. The role also covers service development, research and outcome monitoring, plus training and consultation for DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally. Registration and postgraduate DBT training are required.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical and operational leadership for the DBT team and its wider activities
- Ensure fidelity to the evidence-based DBT model and promote adherent practice across the team
- Provide senior cover across the week for complex clinical dilemmas involving risk and safeguarding
- Hold a small caseload of DBT clients
- Provide training, supervision and consultation to DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally
- Lead service developments, evaluations and research
- Monitor programme outcomes and ensure Trust performance targets are met
- Work with the Senior Management Team to keep the service within budget
- Develop strategy for and manage delivery of the specialist psychological therapy service, providing expert clinical input
- Take the lead on professional standards, clinical governance and quality of psychological work in the service
- Provide systematic professional supervision
- Work with the N&S CAMHS Senior Leadership Group on wider organisational developments and collective leadership
What’s required
Qualifications
- Entry-level qualification and demonstrable practice in a recognised psychological role, accepted for professional registration
- Additional DBT training beyond entry level to postgraduate diploma level or equivalent, through formal training or evidenced supervised practice
Registration & licences
- Registration with HCPC, UKCP, ACP, BPC or BABCP
Experience
- Worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in a comprehensive DBT programme
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of supervising assistants and trainees after completing the relevant training
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership
- Advanced knowledge of psychological practice and its therapeutic application in the speciality
- Delivering specialist therapy across cultural and other differences
- Communicating complex and sensitive information skilfully, overcoming barriers to communication
- Teaching and training other professional groups
Other
- Working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and holding team roles
- Managing emotionally stressful situations, such as abuse, trauma, severe self-harm or aggression
- Managing highly complex situations with competing views, and creating systemic engagement to work towards solutions
Nice to have
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience
- Completed DBT-Prolonged Exposure Intensive training (4 days)
- Experience of supervising qualified mental health practitioners as DBT therapists
- Experience of providing supervision to DBT teams and to teams delivering DBT-informed interventions
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
