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DBT Therapist / Practitioner Psychologist / CBT Therapist
| Posting date: | 30 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 February 2025 |
| Location: | London, BR1 5PS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0078 |
Summary
To deliver comprehensive DBT, including individual DBT sessions, skills training (group and individual), and out-of-hours DBT telephone coaching. This work will also include delivering Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) for trauma, for clients with comorbid PTSD. To provide specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with significant difficulties with emotional and behavioural dysregulation, particularly clients with Borderline/Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (BPD/EUPD) who engage in suicidal and parasuicidal behaviour and have co-morbid difficulties (e.g. substance misuse, eating difficulties, anger control problems). To design and deliver adjunctive therapy groups, both for clients in the DBT Service and for appropriate clients in the Lewisham Treatment Service (e.g. DBT First Steps Group, Managing Emotions groups), monitoring outcomes and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on principles and skills from DBT/CBT. To work as an autonomous professional within Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the policies and procedures of the Trust and both the wider and local DBT Service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions, under guidance from both DBT Consult and individual DBT supervision. To attend and contribute fully to the weekly DBT Consult team meetings on Thursdays. To work as an effective team member (being non-defensive, willing, fallible, open, supportive of others etc.) To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review treatment plans and care plans. To assess and monitor risk regularly in sessions and draw up appropriate risk management plans and adapt these plans accordingly, particularly for clients with multiple services involved. To be responsible for delivering DBT-informed psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients, including offering Family Connections groups. To support DBT clients' care coordinators in the community teams and offer consultation to other team members with queries in relation to DBT service provision. To advise other members of the DBT Service, the wider borough community services (Lambeth, Croydon and Southwark), and appropriate other services (e.g. PCMHTs, local CAMHS services, acute wards) on specialist psychological care of clients with BPD/EUPD and related difficulties. To communicate complex and sensitive information skilfully, compassionately and thoughtfully to clients and carers, taking account of any sensory and cultural barriers to communication in line with clients' wishes.