MBT Therapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7524861/294-COMM-7524861-JB |
Summary
We are seeking a registered Mental Health Professional to join our team as a MBT Therapist. Complex Needs Team delivers psychological treatment and a care programme approach (CPA) for people who meet criteria for Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) within Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). We are a friendly, warm multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about working with people to reduce distress.
There is earmarked funding for training for the post holder. If a core mental health professional without assessed psychotherapeutic training and/or MBT training and experience wishes to apply, they can be appointed at Band 6 whilst they do their MBT training and supervised experience.
• To work as a core member of the Sutton & Merton Complex Needs Service. The post holder will work alongside senior clinicians of the service to ensure that the treatment programme is delivered, monitored and evaluated, including group work as required. The post holder is expected:
• To be committed to effective team working and to the coherent delivery of treatment models, Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT)
• To promote a high standard of patient care.
• To work within the Trust’s CPA policy and the standards set out in the Community Operational Policy and PD Pathway. To provide out of hours work as and when required.
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.
• To provide specialist assessments of clients referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, as required including, as appropriate, 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 client’s care where necessary.
• 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.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
• To evaluate and make decisions 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 individual and group-based therapy
• To provide specialist clinical advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, drawing on expertise in MBT.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other services across service lines on specialist risk assessment and risk management for this client group.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. 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 communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress.
• To ensure effective communication and share relevant information as required.
• To implement and/or participate in crisis intervention measures with the client/family or in conjunction with other agencies.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025