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Band 7 AWP Sequoia Senior Practitioner (MBT) - Bristol - C9342-25-0359
Bristol
Job summary
Sequoia provides evidence-based interventions for people with Complex Emotional Needs and Personality Difficulties across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We offer Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) informed groups, psych-education courses and peer support groups. All interventions are delivered both online and in person and staff work in a hybrid way, between home and locations within our communities, across BNSSG.
We are looking for someone who is either an MBT practitioner or someone who has completed some training in MBT. If you have practice experience but no formal training, then please contact us as we have the budget to train people further. We will build in time within your job to join an established MBT service and deliver full programme MBT as well as the shorter MBT informed intervention which we deliver within Sequoia.
We have good supervision structures and pride ourselves on being inclusive both in our team and for the people we serve. It is exciting to work in a newly developing service that is based on a test and learn approach and so we are looking for someone who is keen to help shape the service as it grows. We aim to deliver well organised services, so alongside your other skills we highly value people who are organised and have good attention to detail.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the oversight of MBT informed interventions; keeping an overview of triage referrals, support conversations (assessments) and post group reviews as well as, of course, running the groups. There is an existing programme of 14 sessions designed and ready to be delivered. You will be working alongside the Clinical Lead to fine tune and improve the MBT branch of the service including looking at feedback and data to identify changes which need to be made. You will be the 'go-to' person in the service for MBT and help with supporting staff working alongside you as well as those external to Sequoia. There will be an ongoing specialist MBT supervision available to you to help guide the development of this aspect of the service.
You will also be involved in other parts of the service outside of MBT and have the opportunity to help with the design, implementation and improvement of the service as a whole. You will be supporting the day to day running of a service with a large caseload of people with mild to moderate complex emotional needs, inclusive of personality disorders.Whilst the focus of the service is delivering group interventions, you will also offer people support conversations (the new terminology for assessments). People have support conversations at the beginning of their journey with Sequoia, throughout if necessary and a review at the end.
About us
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.
Date posted
14 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
342-BR066-0425
Job locations
Callington Road
Marmalade Lane
Bristol
BS4 5BJ
Closing date for applications: 20-05-2025
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year
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