Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

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 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 service works within Trauma Informed model, offering both Mentalization Based Treatment and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (group and individual).

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 Care Group, as part of the Low Secure & Community Forensic Services.

Main duties of the job

The Notts MBT Service is a both a group and individual based 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).

About us

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

#TeamNottsHC

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 provision of an effective learning environment in the service. Participate in the teaching and mentoring of students and other professionals from healthcare professions and other agencies. Provide supervision and consultation to other staff groups, across the Trust and in Primary Care Health Services, Social Services and Voluntary Agencies.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Experience

Essential

Core Profession/Qualification or significant experience in working in mental health as per JD Experience of working with complex service users/those diagnosed with personality disorder Evidence of continued professional development Introductory level knowledge of the treatment/therapies in working with people with a Personality Disorder

Desirable

Skills to facilitate small and larger group treatment programmes

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

Experience of planning and delivering a range of therapeutic interventions. Understanding, and experience of, the importance of maintaining boundaries Ability to manage and contain distress in self/others Skill in assessment / risk assessment of service users Sound knowledge/understanding of the role of/need for supervision

Desirable

Skills in the planning and delivery of a range of group and individual treatment interventions for service users with complex emotional needs.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.

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