Job summary
- Main area
- PDIT Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-COMM-7449082-JB
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Livingstone House
- Town
- Teddington
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist MBT Therapist/Qualified Mental Health Professional
NHS AfC: Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are seeking a registered Mental Health Professional to join our team as an MBT Therapist. Richmond Personality Intensive Treatment Team (PDITT) delivers psychological treatment and a care programme approach (CPA) for people who meet the diagnostic criteria for Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) through Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). We are a small, cohesive, and committed multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to working empathically alongside our patients.
The post holder is expected to:
- Be committed to effective team working and to the coherent delivery of treatment model Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT Therapy)
- Promote and deliver a high standard of patient care.
- To work within the Trust’s CPA policy and the standards set out in the Richmond PDITT Operational Policy and PD Pathway criteria.
- To provide out of hours work if required.
Main duties of the job
• To work as a core member of Richmond PDITT.
• To participate with initial screenings for patients referred to the borough-based CEN Pathway Referrals Meetings, to conduct specialist assessments, and to provide a series of planned assessment and engagement sessions for those patients where MBT is the indicated model of treatment, and to prepare the patient for the MBT Introductory Workshops.
• To hold a caseload of CEN Pathway Assessment Patients.
• To be a co-facilitator for MBT Introductory Workshops.
• To provide an In-Reach component to the post – providing engagement with patients who are in-patients or to link in with other Trust teams who are considering making a referral to Richmond PDITT and impart the function of the CEN Pathway processes.
• To work alongside senior clinicians of the service to ensure that the MBT Intensive Treatment Programme is delivered, monitored, and evaluated, including group work as required.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist assessments for patients referred, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, and conduct specific psychological tests, use self-reporting measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, or semi-structured interviews with the patient, with others involved in the patient’s care, and when indicated, with family/significant others.
- To formulate and implement care plans for patients being assessed or for those engaging with the MBT Intensive Treatment Programme, including risk management, physical health needs, vocational needs, financial needs etc, and based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing MBT-based interventions upon evidence of efficacy.
- To evaluate and make clinical decisions at team level, about treatment options in line with the theoretical and therapeutic models and the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
- To manage an individual case load that includes MBT individual and group-based interventions.
- To provide specialist clinical advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patient’s formulation, diagnosis, and care plan, drawing on expertise in MBT.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to than MBT based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients within the service, and across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
- To undertake risk assessment and formal risk management planning for individual patients and to provide advice to other services across service lines on specialist risk assessment and risk management for this patient population.
- To act as a care co-ordinator for allocated patients and take responsibility for care planning and conducting patient treatment reviews under enhanced CPA. If agreed with the patient, to signpost of there are named carer’s needs, and transparently maintain co-working relationships within the patient’s network of care, for example, external agencies. To prepare reports for, attend and contribute to CPA meetings. To be responsible for the flexible management of a defined caseload designed to meet the individual needs of the client and the carers within the trusts CPA policy and Mental Health Act frameworks.
- To ensure effective communication and share relevant information at team level to ensure a whole team approach to patient care is consistently sustained for the containment of the patient.
- To implement and participate in crisis intervention measures with the patient, or in conjunction with other agencies or with significant others.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Core Mental Health Profession registered with an appropriate professional body (NMC, UKCP, HCPC, SWE)
- Post graduate qualification that includes supervised and assessed psychotherapeutic training.
- Formal training and experience in the practice of MBT with at least two years supervised experience, with evidence of internal/external MBT supervision, and having completed both the MBT Introductory and Advanced Practitioner training, at least six months apart
Desirable criteria
- Post registration qualification in group work
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools
- Experience and skills in risk assessment and management
- Experience of working with diverse communities
Knowledge & Skill;s
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures and skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
- Ability to undertake complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations
- Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
- Good knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant fields.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
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
- Sarah Marvelly-Bovill
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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