Senior DBT Therapist

2 weeks ago

Stevenage Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

DBT therapist to join our Personality Disorder Pathway across East & South East Hertfordshire. The main base would be Bishops Stortford, but the post requirement is to offer some support to other teams in the quadrant, such as Cheshunt.

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 procedure

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 colleague

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

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 intervention

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

About us

Our family of around 4000 members of staff in HPFT provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Job description

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 ca

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, across the full range of care setting

To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed 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 plan

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

Essential


  • Qualification and continuing 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 body overseeing practice of core mental health profession e.g. AND: NMC or HCPC.
  • Intensive training in DBT OR commitment to complete of DBT Intensive Training and commitment to achieve DBT Accreditation when this becomes available, if possible, through the PG Diploma in DBT. Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g., NMC or HCPC

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential


  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, adult mental health and in patient settings
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups including adults with personality disorders. Experience across the whole life span presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
  • Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well-being
  • Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
  • Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
  • Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks
  • Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures
  • Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments
  • Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to Adult Mental Health
  • Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
  • Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision

Desirable


  • Experience of working in a community mental health setting
  • Experience of service development/project management

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adult Community Mental Health Service

Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 3LB

Bishops Stortford

CM23 3LB

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