Dbt Specialist Therapist

South West London And St George'S Mental Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 43 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a registered Mental Health Professional to join as a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) practitioner in a complex needs service serving Kingston and Richmond boroughs.

Fixed earmarked training funding supports DBT training for the post holder; a Band 6 appointment is possible for non-DBT trained professionals while they train and gain supervision.

Qualifications

• Core Mental Health Profession registration and eligible/licensed status.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Postgraduate qualification with supervised psychotherapeutic training.
• Formal training and experience in DBT (intensive/upgrade).

Responsabilités

• Provide specialist assessments using integrated data and structured interviews.
• Formulate and implement formal psychological treatments.
• Deliver and coordinate MBT/DBT-based interventions.
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management for clients.
• Act as care coordinator within enhanced CPA and prepare CPA reports.

Connaissances

DBT training

Risk assessment

Team working

Clinical governance

Formation

Registered core mental health professional

Degree level education

Postgraduate psychotherapy training

Formal DBT training/experience

Description du poste

Job summary

We are seeking a registered Mental Health Professional with a particular interest in working with clients who meet criteria consistent with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder to join our team as a DBT practitioner. There is earmarked funding for training for the post holder. If a core mental health professional without DBT training and experience wishes to apply, they can be appointed at Band 6 whilst they do their DBT training and supervised experience (approx. 2 years).

This service forms part of our clearly defined complex emotional needs (CEN) pathway that includes other interventions such as Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT), Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and DBT skills only groups. The CEN pathway within this Trust provides treatment options within generic CMHT/RST/IRH's and specific complex needs teams. This post is located within a complex needs team that provides DBT and MBT to residents of the Kingston and Richmond boroughs.

This post will be based at Tolworth Hospital in Surbiton close to several shops and with good transport links close to the A3, and a bus ride away from Surbiton station, which has fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.

Main duties of the job

• To be committed to effective team working and to the coherent delivery of the treatment model which is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
• To promote a high standard of patient care.
• To work within the Trust policy and the standards set out in the Community Operational Policy and personality disorder pathway. To provide out of hours work as and when required.

About us

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist assessments of clients referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, as required including, as appropriate, psychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care where necessary.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems), based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options in line with the theoretical and therapeutic models and the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
• To manage an individual case load that includes individual and group‑based therapy
• To provide specialist clinical advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, drawing on expertise in MBT and/or DBT.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other services across service lines on specialist risk assessment and risk management for this client group.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. To prepare reports for, attend and contribute to CPA meetings. To be responsible for the flexible management of a defined caseload designed to meet the individual needs of the client and the carers within the trusts CPA policy and Mental Health Act frameworks.

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Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

• Core Mental Health Profession registered with an appropriate professional body (e.g., NMC, UKCP, HCPC) OR Clinical Associate in Psychology who has completed a BPS accredited CAP training and who is eligible for registration on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Post graduate qualification that includes supervised and assessed psychotherapeutic training OR
• Formal training and experience* in DBT (to intensive/upgrade level).

Desirable

• Post registration qualification in group work
• Accreditation or working towards accreditation in MBT or DBT

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder
• Experience of inter‑agency working

Desirable

• Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools
• Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures and skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
• Ability to undertake complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations.
• Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration

Desirable

• Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Tolworth Hospital, Red Lion Rd, Surbiton, KT6 7QU, United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Malcolm Simpson

[e-mail]

02035131458