South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
MBT Practitioner / Community Practitioner
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Lewisham Personality Disorder Service (LPDS) Recruitment
Lewisham Personality Disorder Service (LPDS) is looking to recruit a Band 7 or Band 6 MBT practitioner for a one-year fixed term post. This may be a secondment from elsewhere in the NHS. The aim of the post is to deliver individual MBT in order to reduce a long waiting list of assessed patients. It is an opportunity to join a well-established and effective MBT team of MBT therapists, contributing towards a treatment programme consisting of individual and group MBT.
About the Role
Specialist supervision is provided, and the role would suit someone with an interest in this patient group who likes working as part of a team and wants to practice MBT. Support for MBT in the wider organisation is excellent with Trust-wide special interest groups and strong links to the Anna Freud Centre.
In terms of career progression, it will enhance your intervention skills working therapeutically with personality disorder or other mental health difficulties in collaboration with other team members. You will either be MBT trained, or training will be provided during supervision to enable you to pursue MBT after this initial experience.
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Qualifications and Experience
The post is suitable for a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist, or a mental health worker (e.g., CPN, OT, practitioner psychologist, social worker) with good NHS mental health experience.
- If you are Band 6, you would be employed at Band 6.
- If you are already accredited as an MBT therapist or psychological therapist, you could start at Band 7.
Your job would be delivering individual mentalisation-based therapy as part of our MBT team. We would support you in learning MBT. You would be involved in supervision groups with other members of the existing five-strong MBT team.
About the Service
The service is for people with a disorder. There are 11 wte clinicians: psychologists, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, occupational therapist (SUN lead), and employment worker. We aim to help our patients to develop to improve mental well-being, social and occupational functioning, increase their stability and quality of life, reduce the use of emergency services and hospital admissions.
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The service provides Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), and supports the CMHTs in their work.
Contact
Contact Christopher Reeve Mates (MBT lead; Christopher.Reeve-Mates@slam.nhs.uk) or Linda Amoakohene (Linda.Amoakohere@slam.nhs.uk) for an informal discussion.
Location
The team will be based in the Wallace Medical Centre in Deptford, SE8.
Lewisham is one of four main boroughs in SLaM. It is a multicultural, multi-ethnic borough, containing deprived and well-off areas.
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Chris Reeves-Mates or Linda Amoakohene
- Job title: Senior clinical psychologist and MBT lead
- Email address: Christopher.Reeve-Mates@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 020 3228 9260
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