Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Nottinghamshire Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Service is looking for a skilled, compassionate and motivated person to work as part of our community/outpatient therapy service.

The service provides individual assessment and group therapy treatment to adults who are felt to be experiencing difficulties with aspects of their personality; for example, longstanding difficulties in relationships, early experiences of trauma, poor early attachments and a pronounced difficulty in managing overwhelming emotions. These difficulties will have often led the service users to have made frequent presentations to services for help and support. The service base is in Nottingham, with access to sites in Mansfield and Worskop to support country access to services. The staff member will be expected to support cover in all areas.

The post is situated within the Forensic Division, as part of the Low Secure & Community Forensic Services and is part of the wider Trust Personality Disorder Pathway.

The Notts MBT Service is a group-based treatment community treatment service, for people will have difficulties arising from their personality and who wish to engage in therapy.

The service offers assessment where service users are given opportunity to discuss their understanding of why they have been referred, the difficulties they experience, the changes they wish to make and discussion regarding any barriers to engaging in treatment. This assessment starts the process of working with the service user in formulating a shared sense of these difficulties to inform the decision-making regarding treatment pathways available. The treatments offered are largely group based and include Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT).

The post holder will work as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, providing and delivering intensive psychological and psychosocial treatment to service users with severe and enduring psychological problems. The role will include supporting and working alongside service users in a collaborative, therapeutic partnership and participation in the development and provision of social/therapeutic activities, psycho-educational programmes for service users (and their family and friends) and facilitation of group therapy programmes (Mentalization Based Treatment and Cognitive Analytic Therapy).

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

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Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The post holder will work as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, providing and delivering intensive psychological and psychosocial treatment to service users with severe and enduring psychological problems. Therefore, appointed applicants will have access to robust clinical and managerial supervision and career development opportunities. The service is committed to ensuring the staff in the team are well equipped to work with the complex service users accessing the service and so training is well supported and there is a range of access to robust supervision.

**Clinical work**: Working compassionately and therapeutically with service users presenting with complex difficulties/complex engagement. Supporting the planning and undertaking the delivery of therapeutic interventions/treatments as indicated from assessment, using evidence-based treatments. Engage in training to support delivery of specialist 1:1 and group treatment. Ensure use of clinical supervision to support risk management, adherence to boundaried working, supporting skills to contain and manage high levels of emotional distress and disturbance in self and others and ensure own wellbeing etc.

**Service development**: Support development of staff within the team through delivery of training and access to clinical supervision. Engaging with reviews, evaluations of the service/treatment, and supporting gathering of data (feedback, outcome measures etc.).

**Support of a wide mix of staff/clinical skill**: To attend individual and group clinical supervision and provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff to meet their educational and development needs. Support the



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