Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological therapies
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 32.41 hours per week (we could be flexible with hours if successful applicant is interested in less hours.)
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-3890
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ditchmore Lane Stevenage, SG1 3LJ
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
DBT Therapist
Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
We are inviting applications from psychological therapists from a core professional background (e.g. CAP's, Psychiatric nurses, Social workers, OT's) to join our Personality Disorder Pathway in the North of Hertfordshire. The post holder will be based in Stevenage and Hitchin.
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
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care 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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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 client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care setting
To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions from within your area of specialty for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining the psychological formulation according to the evolving clinical scenario.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plan
For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Qualification and continuing registration* in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical or counselling psychology, Clinical Associate in Psychology, social work or occupational therapy.
- *Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession e.g. AND: NMC or HCPC.
- Intensive training in DBT OR commitment to complete of DBT Intensive Training and commitment to achieve DBT Accreditation when this becomes available, if possible, through the PG Diploma in DBT. Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g., NMC or HCPC
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, adult mental health and in patient settings
- Experience of working with complex presentations including adults with personality disorders and maintaining professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge and understanding of trauma informed care.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks
- Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments
- Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with severe and enduring mental health problems including personality issues.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of facilitating groups
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service development/project management
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mariette Bothma
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07483 179027
- Additional information
Working hours: Monday - Thursday.
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