DBT Practitioner

Training dates: If applicants have not had either foundation level or intensive level DBT training, they will need to be available to attend training on the 22-26th June 2026 or 21-25 September 2026. The Oxleas CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service provides assessment, treatment, training and consultation in relation to young people aged 12 to 18 who present with persistent self-harm and suicidal behaviour and difficulties suggestive of an emerging Borderline Personality Disorder or emerging Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. Many of the young people seen will present with complex needs including high risk behaviours. The treatment length is up to a year long. Each team member will have a small caseload, but the team will support each other via DBT consultation meetings, morning case run throughs and supervision. Within the DBT service each clinician will play an active role in all aspects of the service and treatment, including assessment, treatment, delivery of skills group, phone coaching 9-5pm, teaching, training, research and service development. The post holder will be responsible for supporting staff within the team to achieve positive clinical outcomes for young people and their families. These outcomes will be evidenced by research and performance indicators such as activity data, targets, and quality measures.,

• To be trained and confident in providing specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to young people with suicidal thoughts, behaviours and self-harm who may have a diagnosis of emerging BPD/EUPD.
• To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
• Train and mentor students and less experienced members of the discipline within the DBT team.
• To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
• To communicate risks often effectively and appropriately under difficult, highly charged, and emotional circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
• To liaise with other colleagues in CAMHS and participate in different clinical groups in order to share best practice and discuss current and future professional and clinical developments e.g., case review meetings and professional forums.
• To liaise independently and effectively with external partner agencies, co-ordinating meetings and participating in case discussions between teams involved in the care of clients.
  
  Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our
medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care