Band 7 Senior MBT Practitioner - BNSSG

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Sequoia is a brand new service that is co-produced with people with lived experience and co-delivered with our partner agency Rethink. Sequoia provides primary care level interventions for people with Complex Emotional Needs and Personality Difficulties.
The service covers the whole of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Interventions are delivered both online and in person. More information on the service is contained in the service summary attached.
We are looking for an experienced mental health professional and welcome applications from any of the registered professions. We value diversity and lived experience. Our service will represent the people that we serve.
We value people who are compassionate toward people with Complex Emotional Needs and Personality Difficulties. You must have an interest in MBT, as well as experience delivering interventions both in group and individually. We are looking for people who are forward thinking and want to do things differently. Qualifications in MBT are desirable but we will consider people with the right skills and experience. We have the funding for MBT training and can train the right person, so if you haven’t already completed the MBT training we will work towards you getting practitioner status. We will link you with existing trust MBT services to gain experience of the wider MBT programme.
You will work in a hybrid way between home and locations within our communities, across BNSSG.
We offer good quality supervision both individual and group.
If you haven’t already completed the MBT training we will work towards you getting practitioner status.
We will link you with existing trust MBT services to gain experience of the wider MBT programme.
The band 7 MBT Practitioner will primarily be overseeing MBT informed interventions in a group setting. This post has a focus on MBT but will also support other parts of the service. The groups Sequoia provide will be both online and in person, depending on the needs of the population.
You will oversee the triage referrals, support conversations (assessments) and post-group reviews. You will keep an overview of the MBT offer and alongside the clinical lead you will use a test and learn approach to improve it. You will be involved with the data collection from the group.
Sequoia is a brand new AWP service - please see the service summary attached to the job advert
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.
The main clinical work focus for this post will involve contributing to the Mentalization Based Treatment offer within Sequoia, as well as being a senior member of staff within the team.

TRAINING/EDUCATION/RESEARCH:

1. Provide training around working with people with CEN to a range of mental health professionals from a range of backgrounds (including experienced clinicians as well as unqualified staff). Provide
   training to professionals from other agencies as requested (e.g. housing).
2. Contribute to the learning and skills development of pre and post registration/qualification students, trainees, novice practitioners and new team members.
3. Maintain awareness of relevant developments in MBT and in thinking about working with people with CEN, including research, theory and best practice guidelines. Dissemination to clinical and management colleagues as needed.
4. The post-holder will contribute to evaluation of aspects of the service. This will include agreeing and using appropriate outcome measures, data input and analysis with appropriate supervision.
5. Keep up to date with statutory and mandatory training and maintain appropriate continuing professional development activities.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. As a member of the AWP BNSSG Sequoia, the post holder will provide a high quality service to people suffering from complex mental health problems, in particular people with complex emotional needs (CEN) associated with the diagnosis of Personality Disorder, such as attachment, interpersonal difficulties and emotional intensity. This will include specialist assessment to determine the most appropriate treatment.
2. The post-holder will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders in the ongoing development of the service.
3. The delivery of group and individual treatments. The caseload will include people with significant complexity and risk.
4. Provide specialist supervision and consultation for mental health professionals working with people with CEN as required.
5. Comply with their profession’s regulatory requirements, ethics and code of conduct.
6. Work within AWP’s policies to manage care pathways and risk.
7. Work within AWP’s procedures for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults.
8. Participate in regular clinical supervision.
9. Demonstrate in clinical practice their respect for the experience of the people accessing our service.
10. Contribute towards the local clinical framework e.g. care programme approach (CPA), including taking on care coordination responsibilities as needed.

CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Keep appropriate electronic records of clinical interventions.
2. Provide appropriate data reporting on clinical activity.
3. Complete clinical administrative responsibilities needed for the appropriate clinical frameworks e.g. CPA.