This 12-month post sits in the Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) in Ealing, a stepped-care service for adults with mental health difficulties. The work centres on specialist assessment and treatment of complex needs, one-to-one and in groups, plus psychological consultation for the whole team. The caseload centres on borderline personality disorder and complex trauma, with DBT at its core, and includes people seeking asylum. Candidates need doctoral training accredited by the BPS, or another core mental health profession accredited with SfDBT.
What the job involves
- Provide highly specialist assessment and treatment for adults with complex mental health conditions, one-to-one and in groups
- Work with people from varied cultural backgrounds, including those seeking asylum, using interpreters when needed
- Provide psychological consultation and guidance to the whole multidisciplinary team
- Embed psychological principles and ways of working across the multidisciplinary team
- Offer supervision and training to trainee and assistant psychologists
- Play a key role in service development
- Support audit and research to sustain and improve service quality
- Collaborate with trainee psychologists, local doctorate courses and psychologists across the Trust
What's required
Qualifications
- Postgraduate doctoral training in clinical or counselling psychology accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those trained before 1996), or another core mental health profession accredited with SfDBT
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
Experience
- Working with clients with borderline/emotionally unstable personality disorder and complex trauma
- Working in a service for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties
- Providing consultation to other staff, and consultation skills with multi-professional teams
- Evidence of continuing professional development and willingness to take part actively in CPD in line with BPS, SfDBT or professional body guidelines
Skills & knowledge
- Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology applied to clinical practice with adults with severe and enduring needs, including trauma history
- Specialist knowledge of borderline/emotionally unstable personality disorder, including the theory of DBT
- Knowledge of the BPS professional code of conduct or relevant professional body's code, and relevant legislation
- Able to give and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in hostile or emotive situations
- Able to make judgements on complex facts, weighing a range of options such as assessment and treatment choices
- Skills in administering psychological tests and standardised assessments
Other
- Able to sit for extended periods while demonstrating active listening
- Able to stay professional and manage stress when exposed to emotive material, verbal abuse, threat of physical abuse, trauma, self-harm or aggression
- Able to work with challenging service users while always maintaining awareness of risk
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise own caseload, treatment programmes and research, working independently and flexibly under pressure
Nice to have
- Postgraduate diploma or higher degree in DBT
- Other related academic qualifications
- Experience of delivering comprehensive dialectical behaviour therapy
- Experience of administering, scoring and written interpretation of formal personality tools and/or neuropsychological assessments
- Record of publication in peer reviewed, academic or professional journals or books
- Specialist psychological skills relevant to working with borderline/emotionally unstable personality disorder
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
