Senior Clinical Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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4 weeks ago

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Are you a qualified Nurse, Social Worker, or Allied Health Professional looking for a unique opportunity to work within a dynamic and forward thinking team, whilst developing your therapeutic skills - particularly in DBT and MBT ?

If so, The Waterview have a vacancy that may be great for you

The Waterview is a specialist personality disorder service, serving the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster. It is the only such service of its kind in the Trust.


The Waterview provides long term Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) to adults with recent and significant self-harming behaviour and chaotic and/or unstable relationships, especially those who have a recent history of using A&E or inpatient mental health services at times of crisis.


We are looking for a compassionate, dynamic individual to join our small team as a Senior Clinical Practitioner, providing both 1-1 and group-based therapy.

In return, you will receive weekly Wellbeing Hour with the team; regular clinical supervision; and specialist training in psychological interventions.

Please visit our website for further information on the service: Waterview Team Website


Job Purpose & Overview of Main Responsibilities:
To co-ordinate the care of service users under Lead Professional Care (LPC)


To facilitate a range of specific therapy groups including Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) in a dedicated personality disorder service operating within a psychologically informed framework.


To provide highly developed clinical skills from a core profession, and further psychological training relevant to the clinical speciality (personality disorder).


To provide, if required, clinical supervision and appraisal for those less experienced members of the multi-disciplinary team and undertake the supervision of students and junior staff.


Working at The Waterview:

"The role is challenging but we look after each other and value our own and each other's wellbeing. This is the best team I've worked with in my career and I'm so proud to be here"- Senior Clinical Practitioner / Nurse

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

For the full Job Description, please see the Job Description attachment
Clinical Responsibilities


To undertake assessments of clients, identifying specific personality traits, emotional ability of service user to use groups and their capacity to work towards shared treatment goals.

Facilitate and co-facilitate a range of therapy groups including Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Based Treatment (DBT).


To act as Lead Professional for an identified number of service users with severe personality disorder, establishing and maintaining a long-term supportive relationship.

To conduct joint home visits, for engagement purposes or emergency assessments, as clinically indicated.

To initiate and carry through safeguarding alerts where appropriate.


To work with service users within intimate and emotionally intense individual and group sessions, where their behaviour may be unpredictable and challenging.


To undertake risk assessments and manage risk as part of the treatment process to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all when faced with threats of verbal abuse, deliberate self-harm and violence to self and/or others.


To assess the needs of carers, and work with them to best support the service user, where consent is given/appropriate.

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