Trainee Psychological Practitioner

4 months ago


Walsall, United Kingdom Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**2 x Trainee Psychological DBT Therapists - Band 6**
- **Fixed-term contract leading to a permanent Band 7 role if training is successfully completed**_
- **Full-time 37.5 hours**_
- **Location: Varied across the Black Country - (1 post Dudley/Walsall and 1 post Sandwell/Wolverhampton)**_

Are you an experienced mental health practitioner with a core profession looking for an opportunity to develop and progress your clinical skills to a Band 7 position and have an interest in working with people with enduring mental health difficulties?

**Main duties of the job**

Alongside studying the post holders will specialise in providing therapeutic interventions to people with difficulties in emotional dysregulation who have often experienced developmental trauma and may have a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. The successful post holders will each join one of the four localities across the Black Country, including; Wolverhampton/Sandwell and Dudley/Walsall. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to join the locality based DBT service and to provide a DBT service to clients with a range of complex problems for which DBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. They will also support the existing services with DBT informed interventions and service development. The post
- holder will work in the service for 4 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme for the other day.

The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. We are committed to equality of opportunity.

**Working for our organisation**

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley

**Person specification**

**Education and Qualifications**

**Essential criteria**
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry/general practice), psychological therapy (HCPC registered), or CBT therapist (BABCP and HCPC accredited), or applied psychologist (HCPC registered)

**Experience**

**Essential criteria**
- Experience working in secondary care mental health service with people who have complex emotional needs, histories of trauma and personality and relationship difficulties.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice

**Knowledge**

**Essential criteria**
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this pos

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months

**Salary**: £35,392.00-£42,618.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- working in secondary care mental healt: 1 year (preferred)
- carried out risk assessments within scope of practice: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- qualification/ graduate level in MH or learning disability (required)
- qualification/ graduate level in nursing, social work (required)
- qualification/ graduate level in counselling (accredited) (required)
- qualification/ graduate level in OT, arts therapy, medicine (required)
- HCPC in psychological therapy/ Applied psychology (required)
- CBT therapist (BABCP and HCPC accredited (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-7547-MH



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