DBT Specialist Therapist

SWLStG; Greater London; Remote; GBP 56,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

The South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a registered Mental Health Professional to join the complex emotional needs pathway as a DBT practitioner at Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton.

You'll deliver and monitor treatment programmes, work with senior clinicians, and may be appointed at Band 6 if not yet trained, with earmarked funding for DBT training over about two years. Flexible working is supported.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Professional preferred with DBT interest.
• Commitment to complex emotional needs care and DBT delivery.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Work as a core member of the complex emotional needs service.
• Deliver and evaluate the treatment programme including DBT components.
• Collaborate with senior clinicians to ensure coherent delivery of care.

Skills

DBT training

Mental health professional

Teamwork

Job description

Site Tolworth Hospital Town Surbiton Salary £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/2026 23:59

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

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 work as a core member of the community specialist complex emotional needs service, Kingston complex needs pathway. The post holder will work alongside senior clinicians of the service to ensure that the treatment programme is delivered, monitored and evaluated, including group work as required. The post holder is expected:

• 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