Dialectical Behaviour Therapist

**Dialectical Behaviour Therapist (DBT) - Developmental**:
**Band 6 - 7 Developmental**:
**Main area**
- Adult Mental Health
- **Grade**
- Band 6 - 7 Developmental
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week ((would consider part time))
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-215**Site**
- To be negotiated
- **Town**
- To be confirmed
- **Salary**
- £33,706 - £47,672 Per annum/Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 15/02/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The Complex Emotional Difficulties Team (CEDT) is well-established and respected, with a history of developing innovative models of care. It offers mainly CAT and DBT as our two evidence-based therapies, and links closely with the Community Mental Health Teams, encouraging the delivery of ‘core interventions’ and DBT-skills.

The team run a weekly consultation clinic for colleagues considering making a referral or looking for some specialist supervision. There are also links with inpatient wards. The service has worked hard to be flexible in responding to diverse needs, whilst at the same time maintaining clarity of purpose and adherence to the predominant models of DBT and CAT.

Community Transformation is underway and is allowing us to review and expand what we deliver. So we are seeking an experienced therapist, also willing to train in our other models, and keen to supervise others.

We would like this to be a full time post, but will explore other options. Some travel is likely. Ideally you will already be an accredited DBT therapist. You may be in-training. Depending on interest in the post, we would consider someone with the right qualities who could begin their training.

An advert can only tell you so much, so if you are interested in this post and feel that you have the skills and passion for this work that we are looking for, please get in touch and we will happily fill in the gaps.

**Main duties of the job**:
Work as a member of our team, contributing to consultation, assessment, therapy and evaluation.

Primarily to deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), across all modalities.

Training, integration and delivery of other approaches is a possibility - namely DBT-skills, KUF training. family connections, Structured Clinical Management, and RO-DBT as part of the 'universal offer' taking place through transformation.

Liaison, supervision, support and training of our colleagues across the
service.

If required, support to develop the skill and experience to move into a DBT supervisor role (b7) when one became available.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental