This team lead post sits within the Complex Emotional Needs Service in Powys Adult Secondary Care Mental Health Services, building a new Dialectical Behavioural Therapy service. The post holder leads a small multidisciplinary DBT team, oversees groups and clients, and sets up in-reach to acute wards and outreach to out-of-County placements. The caseload involves severe, complex trauma, and the role is Pan-Powys with blended home working. A registration with NMC, HCPC or Social Care Wales is needed.
What the job involves
- Grow and implement the new DBT treatment service across working age adult mental health services
- Lead a small multidisciplinary team of DBT clinicians
- Provide operational oversight of DBT groups and clients across community settings
- Act as clinical lead to DBT practitioners and their clients
- Set up DBT in-reach to acute wards and outreach to out-of-County placements
- Manage a small caseload of highly complex clients
- Carry out assessments, consultations and up-skilling for mental health teams
What’s required
Qualifications
- Master's-level or equivalent postgraduate qualification, or equivalent clinical practice experience
- Post-registration DBT foundation or intensive training, with evidenced practice and supervision
- Additional DBT specialist training such as a master class, or commitment to it in year one
- Training or knowledge in at least one other psychological or psycho-social intervention; good CPD record
Registration & licences
- NMC (mental health nurse), HCPC (occupational therapist or practitioner psychologist) or Social Care Wales (social worker) registration
Experience
- Leadership and/or operational management experience, and clinical or managerial supervision of staff
- Managing concerns, complaints, investigations and service performance issues
- Significant post-qualification experience as a registered mental health practitioner in secondary services with complex emotional needs
- Significant experience delivering DBT within a comprehensive DBT service
- Multi-professional or multi-agency working, teaching and liaising with other professions, and service development or change management
Skills & knowledge
- Specialist knowledge of severe mental health issues and suicidal behaviour, including risk assessment
- Highly specialist knowledge of the complex emotional needs client group, including complex trauma
- Knowledge of evidence-based psychological therapies and collaborative, person-centred formulation
- Highly developed clinical and communication skills, engaging hard-to-treat clientsTeam leadership and delegation, with autonomous decision-making and responsibility for own practice
Nice to have
- DBT qualification, training beyond entry level, or specific advanced DBT accreditation
- Line management of staff and/or recruitment experience
- Research, service evaluation and/or service development experience
What’s offered
- Training in advanced DBT and other therapies, with support to become accredited
- Specialist DBT training and supervision
- Access to the resources and support of the wider psychology service
- Opportunities for blended home working
- Part-time hours can be considered
- Welsh language training support
- Career development pathways
- Focus on staff well-being
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
