PDCS Trainee Therapist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Undertake training to manage crisis calls
• Liaise with the Clinical Lead, Line Manager and Team Manager
• Triage referrals
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate therapy programmes for clients
• Communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings
• Produce reports on clients
• Provide psychotherapeutic interventions for cases referred to the team. This will involve the use of evidence based psychological interventions especially MBT and DBT.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Undergraduate degree in psychology, or a core profession and basis for registration (nursing, or allied health professional), or a trained and registered psychotherapist
• Willingness and ability to embark on the appropriate level of training or work towards MBT Practitioner Accreditation.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of MBT and/ or DBT
• Accreditation as an MBT therapist/ DBT therapist
• Training / qualification in delivering psychological therapies

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant clinical experience working directly with service users in a therapeutic environment
• Experience of working with service users with Personality Disorder
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Proven ability to communicate clearly in difficult and complex situations.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in mental health services
• Experience of delivering psychological therapies
• Experience of collecting data to demonstrate clinical outcomes
• Experience of working with patients presenting with high level of distress and managing risk situations.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Willingness to take initiative and be pro-active to support the development of the programme
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Able to undertake/seek out supervision as required

Desirable criteria

• Ability to promote psychological models with clients, carers and staff in an understandable and person-centred way, clearly outlining goals and potential outcomes.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
• Formal training in psychological therapies.
• Introductory or full training in MBT.

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability and willingness to travel independently to locations throughout the organisation

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visi

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Peterborough

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Salary indication

Between £39,959 and £48,117 Per Year

Published at

14-08-2026

Profession type

Health / Medical

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No