Job summary
The Personality Disorder Hub are recruiting for an Advanced Practitioner. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner who is interested in further developing their specialist skills. As an Advanced Practitioner you will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, care co-ordination and therapeutic interventions for people who present with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties combined with high risk to self.

The role will have a focus on co-ordinating complex, multi-agency care needs and supporting formulation-based clinical decision-making. The Advanced Practitioner will hold a relatively small care co-ordination caseload, taking responsibility for co-ordinating and integrating different elements of a person's care and ensuring that psychological formulation informs clinical decision-making, risk management and therapeutic intervention.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure that care plans are holistic, effective, goal orientated and person centred.

As a team we understand the importance of wellbeing and building resilience. We have a strong reflective culture, providing protected time and forums for learning, growth and development.

Although the post will be primarily based within the South Tyneside and Sunderland locality, the team operates across the North-East region, therefore, there will be a requirement to travel across the region as part of this role.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, care co-ordination and therapeutic intervention for a small number of service users who present primarily with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties, co-existing conditions and high risk to self.
• You will work closely with relevant professionals and agencies, co-ordinating input from relevant services and ensuring the overall care plan remains coherent, formulation-based, goal-orientated and person centred.
• The focus of your input will be on providing safety, stabilisation, individual and wider system containment and the delivery of therapeutic interventions designed to support greater emotional and relational stability.
• Your practice will be guided by providing adapted forms of Structured Clinical Management (SCM), trauma stabilisation, Dialectical Behaviour therapy (DBT) and Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) during the most unstable phase of a service user's care pathway.
• There will also be the opportunity to provide scaffolding to a wide range of community teams, inpatient staff and third sector providers.

About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

Details
Date posted: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 263-SCG26-127-AD
Job locations: Benfield House, Walkergate Park, Walkergate Park, Newcastle, NE6 4QD, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• First level registered professional qualification, e.g. RNMH, RMN, RNLD, Social Worker, OT, Clinical Psychologist, other.
• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience in evidence based treatments relating to people with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties.
• Student Assessor

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Commitment to multiagency and multidisciplinary working
• Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines for people with complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties
• Proven ability to manage a caseload in a flexible manner as required.
• Experience of managing complex cases and risk with people who have complex emotional, relational and personality difficulties

Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation and conflict management
• Expert clinical supervision skills
• Evidence based advanced clinical skills
• Experience of Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and trauma stabilisation work.

Role/Team Specific
Essential

• Knowledge of and particular interest in working with people who present with complex emotional and relational difficulties
• Ability to meet the mobility and geographical requirements of the post

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Rob Watts, robert.watts@cntw.nhs.uk

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