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Job overview

The Nottinghamshire Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Service is looking for a skilled, compassionate and motivated person to work as part of our community/outpatient therapy service. 

The service provides individual assessment and therapy treatment to adults who are felt to be experiencing difficulties with aspects of their personality; for example, longstanding difficulties in relationships, early experiences of trauma, poor early attachments and a pronounced difficulty in managing overwhelming emotions.  These difficulties will have often led the service users to have made frequent presentations to services for help and support.  The service works within Trauma Informed model, offering both Mentalization Based Treatment and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (group and individual).

The service base is in Nottingham, with access to sites in Mansfield and Worskop to support country access to services.  The staff member will be expected to support cover in all areas.

The post is situated within the Forensic Care Group, as part of the Low Secure & Community Forensic Services.

Main duties of the job

The Notts MBT Service is a both a group and individual based community treatment service, for people will have difficulties arising from their personality and who wish to engage in therapy. 

The service offers assessment where service users are given opportunity to discuss their understanding of why they have been referred, the difficulties they experience, the changes they wish to make and discussion regarding any barriers to engaging in treatment.  This assessment starts the process of working with the service user in formulating a shared sense of these difficulties to inform the decision-making regarding treatment pathways available.   The treatments offered are largely group based and include Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT).    

The post holder will work as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, providing and delivering intensive psychological and psychosocial treatment to service users with severe and enduring psychological problems.  The role will include supporting and working alongside service users in a collaborative, therapeutic partnership and participation in the development and provision of social/therapeutic activities, psycho-educational programmes for service users (and their family and friends) and facilitation of group therapy programmes (Mentalization Based Treatment and Cognitive Analytic Therapy). 

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.  We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.  We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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