DBT Practitioner | North NHS Foundation Trust

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This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated clinician with a passion for working therapeutically with individuals with complex emotional needs within a supportive and dynamic specialist team.

This important role is part ofthe Barnet Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) Pathway. The remit ofthedynamicDBT Pathway is to offer Barnet residents referred into the service a consistent evidence-based therapeutic approach, to reduce inpatient admissions and to support the quick transitions of those in an inpatient service back into the community.

The post holder will bejoiningaestablished and vibrantDBT Pathway and willbe working closely with the Barnet Adult Psychology Teamandthe Complex Emotional Needs Pathway Team.

Ideally you will have a strong enthusiasm towork in a psychologically informed wayandhadexperienceof DBT, but this is notessentialas training will be provided.

The post holder will provide formal DBT psychologicalinterventionsusingatrauma-informedapproachwhilst undertaking necessary training to upskill for this role as required.

The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of appropriate professional practice within the service/team.

As a Band 6 DBT Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to adults experiencing severe emotional dysregulation and complex mental health difficulties. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based interventions that support recovery and promote meaningful change.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering individual DBT-informed interventions and co-facilitating DBT skills training groups.
• Managing a caseload of service users with complex emotional and relational difficulties, including those presenting with significant risk.
• Undertaking comprehensive assessments, care planning, risk assessment, and ongoing clinical reviews.
• Supporting service users to develop skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness.
• Participating in weekly DBT consultation meetings and contributing to the maintenance of DBT treatment fidelity.
• Working collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure coordinated and person-centred care.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to service evaluation and outcome monitoring.
• Providing specialist advice, consultation, and support to colleagues within the wider mental health services.
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the promotion of psychologically informed practice.
• Jointly assesspatientsfor suitability for DBT. Where the problemsappear to betoo complex or severe to be appropriate forlevel of experience refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
• To formulate and implementDBTfocusedtreatment plans,in particular identifying repeatingpatterns of crisis andadviseways of altering these, based uponan appropriateconceptualframework of the patient’s problems.
• To educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying DBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
• Tosupportthe implementation of arange of DBT psychological interventions(group and individual) forprospectivepatients.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individualpatientsand toprovide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment andrisk management.
• To work closely with referrers,service sand colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of DBT interventions.
• To deal appropriately with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapycontacts which may be highly distressingon a daily basisand to work withfrequentlyintense concentration for the clinical sessions of assessment and therapy.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome…