PD Senior Practitioner / Acute Liaison | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

The post-holder will primarily offer liaison to the Acute Wards in Enfield relating directly to the service users with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder who are being considered for admission or already an inpatient . This will include attending ward rounds and team meetings to offer trauma-informed consultation and clinical advice to Acute teams as well as delivering training and supervision.

The role aims to use experience and clinical knowledge to increase the capacity of the teams delivering care to meet the needs of this service user group as well as enhance the experience of the service users in the least restrictive environment possible. Therefore, understanding risk and a confidence in discharge planning is an essential skill for the post holder. The post holder will undertake urgent assessments on behalf of the Personality Disorder Pathway, supervising team members from the ward and the Community Teams to take up the outcomes and recommendations of these.

The post holder will lead on ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users. They will also support the development, implementation and embedding of trauma informed practice on the Acute wards.

• To provide skilled trauma-informed assessments of patients' emotional and psychological needs based upon the understanding, interpretation and integration of complex data given by the patient and obtained from other sources


• To evaluate and make decisions about trauma-informed treatment plans in conjunction with the MDT


• To formulate and implement plans for the management of the patient's mental health problems, informed by the Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation-Based Treatment model, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or another appropriate psychological model.


• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans for patients and to monitor progress together with the MDT


• To demonstrate, through case supervision and clinical meetings, the explicit implementation of a Structured Clinical Management model, Mentalisation Based Treatment or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy informed approach to all clinical work and reflective practice groups.


• To undertake frequent risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including both the immediate physical risk to the safety of clients, as well as the psychological aspects


• To provide advice, consultation, training and skills development to acute ward colleagues and community colleagues


Working for North London Mental Health Partnership

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