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Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Salary: Band 6 - £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (Pro rata for part time)
Hours: Permanent: Full time / Part time - 37.5 hours per week Location: Mandala Centre, Nottingham
Closing: 01/05/2024 11.59pm
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).
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