Pdcs Trainee Therapist

Cambridgeshire And Peterborough Nhs Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 55 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced therapist to support delivery of group-based treatment programmes for adults with personality disorders. You will provide MBT/DBT therapies, conduct pre-treatment assessments, and help mentor junior staff, with opportunities to work with families and crisis lines.

The post emphasises clinical leadership, safeguarding, and effective documentation in a busy service, with training in crisis management and supervision

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in psychology or core profession with basis for registration (nursing or allied health) or trained/registered psychotherapist.
• Willingness and ability to pursue MBT Practitioner Accreditation.
• Current UK professional registration or eligibility to register is required.

Responsabilités

• Provide therapy to clients in a structured MBT/DBT pathway.
• Carry out 1:1 pre-treatment assessments and engage service users at entry.
• Complete clinical records, risk assessments and safeguarding follow-ups.
• Deliver the 12-week MBT group and co-facilitate the 18-month therapy programme.
• Respond to crisis situations and participate in duty telephone support.
• Produce reports and participate in multidisciplinary meetings.

Connaissances

Interpersonal skills

Distress tolerance

Clinical leadership

Team collaboration

Mentoring

Formation

Undergraduate psychology or core profession

Willingness to MBT Practitioner Accreditation

Registration or eligible for registration (nursing/allied health/psychotherapist)

Description du poste

Job summary

We are seeking a suitably experienced therapist to support the delivery of our group-based treatment programmes for adults with personality disorders.
The team offers a full range of services and there may be opportunities to be involved in other aspects of treatment (e.g., working with families, supporting with crisis calls). Most of our work is group based.
This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a clinical capacity. You will need to be skilled at managing emotional distress and the psychological impact of the work upon yourself. You will have sufficient clinical experience to enable you to mentor new and junior practitioners, and show clinical leadership within the context of group treatment (e.g., notice and take responsibility for associated aspects of care; record keeping, following up safeguarding etc). Clinical supervision and reflective practise sessions are provided.

Main duties of the job

Your primary role will involve actively providing therapy to clients in our structured treatment pathway. You will have a role in completing 1:1 pre-treatment assessments and engaging service users as they enter our team. This includes accurate completion of clinical records, completing risk assessments and safety plans, and following up safeguarding concerns.
You will have a role in delivering our 12-week introductory MBT group and in co-facilitating the extended 18-month therapy programme; weekly therapy (delivered in group format accompanied by individual sessions). Our current service need is for someone to work in our MBT programme, but the post requires the successful applicant to work flexibly and adaptably to meet the needs of the service.
All clinical staff undertake some training to manage crisis calls and may be required to support the Duty telephone lines at busy times.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Undertake training to manage crisis calls
• Liaise with the Clinical Lead, Line Manager and Team Manager
• Triage referrals
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate therapy programmes for clients
• Communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings
• Produce reports on clients
• Provide psychotherapeutic interventions for cases referred to the team. This will involve the use of evidence based psychological interventions especially MBT and DBT.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in psychology, or a core profession and basis for registration (nursing, or allied health professional), or a trained and registered psychotherapist
• Willingness and ability to embark on the appropriate level of training or work towards MBT Practitioner Accreditation.

Desirable

• Knowledge of MBT and/ or DBT
• Accreditation as an MBT therapist/ DBT therapist
• Training / qualification in delivering psychological therapies

Experience

Essential

• Significant clinical experience working directly with service users in a therapeutic environment
• Experience of working with service users with Personality Disorder
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Proven ability to communicate clearly in difficult and complex situations.

Desirable

• Experience of working in mental health services
• Experience of delivering psychological therapies
• Experience of collecting data to demonstrate clinical outcomes
• Experience of working with patients presenting with high level of distress and managing risk situations.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Willingness to take initiative and be pro-active to support the development of the programme
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Able to undertake/seek out supervision as required

Desirable

• Ability to promote psychological models with clients, carers and staff in an understandable and person-centred way, clearly outlining goals and potential outcomes.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
• Formal training in psychological therapies.
• Introductory or full training in MBT.

Other

Essential

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability and willingness to travel independently to locations throughout the organisation

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.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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