Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

Job overview

We are pleased to offer a full time, permanent, band 7 Specialist DBT Therapist post in our Southwark Service. This post offers the opportunity to join a friendly team of committed clinicians and to work with complex presentations and includes the management of risk, personality difficulties, complex trauma, mental health and social inequalities.

An important part of the role is supporting CMHT colleague in the work they do with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder who may present with high risk and interpersonal challenges. This is an ideal post to apply these skills as well as to provide training and education to care coordinators and teams.

The DBT service delivers the full DBT programme, consisting of weekly individual therapeutic work, group sessions, phone consultation as indicated, and weekly DBT team consultation.

A commitment to considering the impact of a client’s cultural context is essential working in Southwark. We welcome applicants with experience in working with a diverse population and a desire to reach out to under-represented groups.

Main duties of the job

• To offer 1:1 DBT therapy to clients from the Southwark DBT WL and to co-facilitate skills training groups.
• To provide additional DBT skills groups as per service need (DBT-S or a waiting list group)
• To offer regular consultation to teams eg CMHTs offering DBT understandings of BPD and enhancing the skills of the teams in these spaces.
• To offer planned training and education to care coordinators and teams in DBT.
• To attend and contribute to the weekly DBT Consult space (Wednesday’s 2.30pm – 5pm).
• To contribute to the efficient running of the service in use of the systems and processes in place.
• To help contribute to the development of the service to perform at its maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) service to clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and comorbid difficulties associated with underlying emotional dysregulation. The job will entail delivering comprehensive DBT (individual DBT sessions, DBT skills training [group sessions], DBT telephone coaching and attending weekly DBT Team Consult meetings), planning and delivering DBT-S groups within the community teams, conducting specialist assessments and comprehensive monitoring of clinical outcomes. The job will also require the post holder to offer consultation to other professionals and teams as appropriate, and plan and deliver training or teaching as needed. The post holder will also be required to contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.