Psychological Therapist (Personality Disorders)

NHS; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Psychological Therapist (Personality Disorders)

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a qualified Mental Health nurse, OT or Social worker?

Or are you an experienced PWP, a qualified CAP, CBT therapist or registered with BACP?

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?

Through an extensive expansion of our psychology provision we are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across all wards.

We are seeking to recruit a Dialectical Behaviour Therapist (DBT) to join our friendly Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS). This role is based in Hemel Hempstead covering North West Hertfordshire.

Ideally, you will already be trained in DBT; however, full training will be provided as required for the successful candidate.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• have a core mental health qualification and registration (including nursing, social work, occupational therapy)
• have an interest in working collaboratively with service users (and their families) to develop their skills to improve their ability to tolerate and manage strong emotion
• have proven experience of working with service users with mental health needs
• be able to work flexibly as the needs of the service demand
• hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

In return, we can offer you:

• development and training opportunities
• regular supervision
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing programme
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job responsibilities

• To provide psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problem.
• To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models for individuals, families, or groups as appropriate.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.

For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Qualification and continuing registration* in one of the core mental health professions.
• Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession (e.g. NMC, HCPC).
• Additional training in approaches to PD (e.g. DBT or SCM).

Experience

• Experience of assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups including adults with personality disorders.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
• Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments.
• Experience of MDT working.

Diversity

• Ability to apply psychological practice in different cultural contexts.

Physical Skills

• Own form of transportation to be able to commute between sites.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Clinical Psychologist and DBT therapist

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)