DBT Therapist

We are inviting applications from psychological therapists from a core professional background (e.g. Psychiatric nurses, Social workers, OT's) to join our Personality Disorder Pathway in the North West of Hertfordshire. The post holder will be based in Hemel Hempstead.

Working closely with the local DBT leads, this post offers an exciting opportunity to join an established group of therapists who provide a local DBT service, as well as joining the wider network of therapists, locally and across the trust.

The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment to clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder within the service and provide specialist support, guidance and consultation to colleagues, carers and other agencies regarding the psychological care of clients.

There will be many opportunities for close working with local and quadrant-wide psychological therapy teams and other psychological therapy colleagues.

The post holder will act as a resource on positive risk-taking and the management of people with personality disorder, for staff within the community hubs, and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedure.

Main duties of the job

To have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues in the community mental health team setting

To maintain close working relationships with psychological therapy colleagues both locally and quadrant-wide

To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in the local Hub and beyond and with GPs and other stakeholders in the service.

To work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleague

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedure

To utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service

To provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment including a range of evidence-based group and individual psychological interventions

To provide specialist support, guidance, and consultation relevant to personality disorders on clients' psychological care to other multi-disciplinary professional

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout