Senior Liaison Clinician - Personality Disorders

306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 11 May 2025

Job 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth 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.

Date posted

25 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

455-BEH-0093

Job locations

St Ann's Hospital

St Ann's Road

London

N15 3TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

RMN/Occupational Therapy/Social work/Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate.
MBT in a treatment setting.

Desirable

Teaching/Mentorship Qualification.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
Evidence of ability to effectively manage a team.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing.
Ability to work within multidisciplinary team autonomously.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential

The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

RMN/Occupational Therapy/Social work/Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate.
MBT in a treatment setting.

Desirable

Teaching/Mentorship Qualification.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
Evidence of ability to effectively manage a team.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing.
Ability to work within multidisciplinary team autonomously.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential

The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).