Senior DBT Therapist

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established mental health trust is seeking a skilled DBT therapist to join their Personality Disorder Pathway. This role offers a unique opportunity to work within a supportive team, providing specialized psychological assessments and treatments for clients with personality disorders. You will collaborate with a range of professionals, ensuring the highest standards of care while promoting positive mental health outcomes. Join a forward-thinking organization that values choice, independence, and equality, and make a significant impact on the lives of individuals in your community. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to contribute to a dynamic team, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Ongoing registration in a core mental health profession is required.
• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment across various settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and treatment for clients.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams and provide consultation.

Skills

DBT Therapy

Psychological Assessment

Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration

Consultation and Supervision

Research Skills

Education

Core Mental Health Profession Qualification

DBT Intensive Training

Job description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

DBT therapist to join our Personality Disorder Pathway in the North of Hertfordshire.

Working closely with the local DBT leads, this post offers an exciting opportunity to join an established group of therapists who provide a local DBT service, as well as joining the wider network of therapists, locally and across the trust.

• You will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment to clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder within the service.
• You will provide specialist support, guidance, and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers within community mental health services, primary care, and other agencies.
• You will work closely with the local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy teams, as well as a range of other psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting.
• Act as a resource on positive risk-taking and the management of people with personality disorder, for staff within the community hubs.
• You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

To have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues in the community mental health team setting.

To maintain close working relationships with psychological therapy colleagues both locally and quadrant-wide.

To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in the local Hub and beyond, and with GPs and other stakeholders in the service.

You will work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

You will utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development, and research within the area served by the team/servi.

You will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment, including a range of evidence-based group and individual psychological interventions.

You will provide specialist support, guidance, and consultation relevant to personality disorders on clients' psychological care to other multi-disciplinary professionals.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.

About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust

Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities, and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including 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.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, employing individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining the psychological formulation according to the evolving clinical scenario.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

• Qualification and ongoing registration* in one of the core mental health professions e.g., psychiatric nursing, clinical or counselling psychology, social work, or occupational therapy.
• *Continuing registration with the body overseeing practice of the core mental health profession e.g., NMC or HCPC.
• Intensive training in DBT OR commitment to complete DBT Intensive Training and achieve DBT Accreditation when available, possibly through the PG Diploma in DBT. Continuing registration with the relevant professional body.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various care settings, including outpatient, community, adult mental health, and inpatient settings.
• Experience working with diverse client groups, including adults with personality disorders, and managing highly emotive and distressing problems with professionalism.
• Knowledge of lifespan development and its impact on emotional, psychological, and mental well-being.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration.
• Ability to provide consultation, training, and supervision to other professionals and non-professionals.
• Knowledge of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures, NHS initiatives, legislation, and the national agenda related to Adult Mental Health.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Experience of service quality monitoring, research, and service development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A DBS check will be required.

Salary: £48,270 to £54,931 per annum, pro-rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)