Dbt Therapist

**Job Description and Personal Specification**

**Job title**: Psychological Therapist in DBT

**Place of work**: Dunstable

**Hours of work**: PT 12/24 hours per week

**Salary/Grade**: Band 7 term time plus 5 days (Pro Rata)

**Reports to**: Head of Provision

**Level of screening**: Enhanced

**Who we are**

The Regulation Station CIC is all about ‘training the future’, building strength from vulnerability and preparing children and young people, not only to learn and to do well in exams, but to do well in the world and in life.

We aim to address the susceptibility of children and young people to poor social and academic outcomes due to poor mental health; academic and social exclusion and systemic inequities.

The Regulation Station is passionate about the impact early intervention can have on long term life outcomes for children and young people using
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) self-regulation skills training with children and young people, aged 9-14, that are at risk of, or experiencing, social and academic exclusion and mental health challenges.

The aim of the intervention is to increase the likelihood of children and young people achieving positive academic and personal outcomes by offering educational assessment to identify potential underlying learning and developmental difficulties and access to a personalised curriculum.

**Our Values**
- Take care of yourself and others
- Be accountable for your actions and their impact
- Embrace vulnerability as a source of strength
- If it’s not good enough for you, it’s not good enough for anyone else
- Know what you want to achieve before you begin
- Be aware of your power and use it wisely
- Take time to stop and smell the roses

**Our Core Principles**
- All behaviour is communication
- Those we work with are doing the best they can and want to improve
- Those we work with need to do better, try harder and be motivated to change
- Those doing the work also need support

**What does good look like for this role?**

You are very experienced in therapeutic work with young people and adults with a wide range of difficulties, including:

- Those who experience high levels of anxiety or depressed mood
- Those who show aggressive behaviour
- Those who have difficulty accessing their learning

You are very experienced in working with DBT skills and have successfully worked with children and young people to improve their attitude and engagement.

You are flexible in your approach, positive and self-motivated, able to work both independently and as part of a team.

You are resilient and able to employ a range of strategies and tools to effectively work with students with complex emotional and behavioural challenges.

You are able to handle the responsibility that dealing with the emotional well
- being of vulnerable young people can bring, and to work with colleagues to identify students who need specific support and enable them to make academic progress.

You are passionate about inclusion and confident to assist in reintegrating students into a mainstream school when the time comes

**Main Duties and Accountabilities**

**Overall purpose of role**

Provide DBT-based self-regulation skills training, therapy and coaching for students, promoting their emotional health and well-being and building their resilience to help them cope with the difficulties they face.

This will include creating or supporting personalised plans to ensure students:
To become motivated, positive and resilient o develop self-help skills to get themselves to where they think they should be o gain the confidence to experiment, make mistakes and thrive o treat themselves and others with kindness and respect o discover new ideas, activities and ways of doing things

**Main Duties**
- Undertake one-to-one DBT therapy with students
- Plan and facilitate STEPS-A (DBT skills training) groups
- Identify and discuss potential referrals with provision staff
- Coordinate and lead on the orientation and induction of students referred to the provision
- Lead a weekly debrief and planning consult with the team as well as other planning and review meetings with colleagues as directed by Senior Leaders
- Be aware of confidential issues and how and when it is appropriate to share with colleagues

**Relationships and Expectations**
- Establish and maintain a positive regard towards both students and staff, promoting equity and inclusion.
- Maintain good relationships with students, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary
- Have high expectations of behaviour, and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly
- Have clear rules and routines for behaviour, and take responsibility for promoting good and courteous behaviour across the provision, in accordance with the provision’s behaviour-regulation policy
- Support positive behaviour taking into account the personal, social and emotional