Personality Disorder Hub Practitioner/Clinician

Mersey Care's Spring House (Personality Disorder Hub) are looking to take on a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join its Day and Safe Service.

The post is ideal for somebody with a particular interest in personality disorder, working psychologically, and learning how to support people using therapeutic principles across a variety of environments.

Candidates should be able to work non-defensively through emotionally challenging situations and openly reflect on their work and and working relationships within the team's group reflective practice spaces.

**We will also consider applicants with limited experience to fulfil a band 5 post**

Spring House is a combined specialist Day and Crisis Service for service users with Personality Disorder. It operates seven days a week, from 8:30am to 10pm. The service operates social therapy groups within a therapeutic community model, thus has a strong ethos of service user involvement.

People are additionally supported through crises by the Safe Service, through face to face or phone sessions, as well as brief therapy interventions.

The successful candidate will be expected to support people through group facilitation, crisis work in the Safe Service and when ready would take on brief Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT) cases. Spring House additionally gatekeeps 3 short-stay beds at Stepping Stones, so the successful candidate would facilitate assessments for those admissions. PIT supervision and reflective practice will be provided and the service highly values staff training.

The post-holder will be supported by the two service leads, along with their qualified and support worker colleagues. The Day and Safe Service is one of two developments at Spring House for service users with complex PD presentations, the others being the PD Case Management Team.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Cartwright Job title: Spring House Safe Service Lead Email address: [email protected]