Band 8a Mentalisation Based Therapy Lead - Bristol

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Practitioner to join the Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) in South Glos. The successful candidate will lead the MBT stream of interventions within the PTS and locality. We welcome applications from Nurse Therapists, OT, social workers, psychologists or other accredited professional qualifications with experience of MBT service development and delivery. There will be opportunities CPD to sustain high quality of care for the service user group.
The post holder will provide psychological assessment and treatment for people referred to South Glos. PTS presenting with difficulties associated with a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality difficulties, which adversely impact on relationships and emotional regulation abilities. The successful applicant will be part of the MBT work stream within PTS and play a central role in the delivery of group and individual psychological interventions whilst sharing a passion for offering high quality, safe and effective MBT treatment.
As a service the South Glos. PTS has a commitment to address issues of structural inequalities and oppression that often create barriers in the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the Locality., The main focus of the clinical work for this post will be the provision of leadership for the delivering the Mentalization Based Treatment programme within PTS at Kingswood Civic Centre. Day to day work involves:
Psychological assessments, setting up and delivering therapy at individual and group levels. To Provide leadership for the MBT service within the PTS and locality.
To work closely with referrers, services and colleagues to collaborate around the delivery of MBT interventions.
To provide specialist supervision for MBT practitioners, trainees and other mental health practitioners working with people with Emotionally unstable personality difficulties .
The role also offers opportunities for teaching, training and service evaluation/audit.
Please see the attached job description and person spec for more information., · To undertake highly specialist assessments, including risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
· To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
· To be responsible for providing psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.
· To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.