Outpatient Practitioner | AMBIT | Personality Disorders

For our clients with a Severe Mental Illness (SMI) presenting with personality problems, Mentrum started a new Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) team at the end of 2024. Do you enjoy working methodically as an Outpatient Practitioner/Mental Health Professional alongside your client, the network, and your treatment team? And do you have experience with this target group? Then this vacancy is for you.

What will you do?
Together with the treatment team, you will act as a key-worker for clients with complex psychiatric and psychosocial problems, where personality problems are the primary focus. You will work within the AMBIT framework, in which methodical collaboration with the client, your team, the system, and the network is central. The AMBIT framework utilizes Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) theory and methodology, and also incorporates other treatment interventions.

What does this mean for the client?
You will learn to better understand your own behavior and that of others, which helps you reduce and better manage your problems and complaints, and gain control over feelings of anxiety and crisis behavior.

With AMBIT, we look not only at your psychological complaints, but also at the collaboration with your environment. Your environment may consist of family, friends, but also your care network.

During treatment, you will learn to mentalize. When you can mentalize, you better understand how you and others think. And you understand why you and others do what they do. You understand that behavior stems from feelings and thoughts. And that your actions can trigger certain behaviors in others.

A treatment using the AMBIT approach focuses not only on reducing your complaints and problems and improving collaboration with your environment; you can also work with the team on your health, self-care, and daily activities.

What does this mean for your work?
Both individual and group treatments are offered, and much attention is paid to the therapeutic relationship. The treatment is primarily outpatient and, if necessary, outreach-oriented. All team members contribute to the treatment and the treatment policy. For the treatment trajectories, we have a long-term perspective; there is a strong commitment to collaboration, crisis management, and building trust, gaining control over problems and complaints, and improving autonomy and self-reliance. With this, we align with the FACT principles of recovery-oriented work.

• As an outpatient practitioner, you play a central role in the treatment, coordination, and continuity of care for clients with complex psychological and social problems;
• You build a sustainable working relationship with clients who have often previously become stuck in the help-seeking process;
• You work outpatient and, if necessary, work together with the (care) network;
• You develop yourself in MBT - methodical working and help clients and the network with regulating emotions and understanding their behavior and that of others (mentalizing);
• You provide both individual and group treatment;
• You provide psycho-education (both individually and to relatives and in group settings) and draw up signaling plans;
• You contribute to the creation of treatment plans;
• In the treatment team, you contribute ideas regarding the treatment policy for individual clients, and you work together with your colleagues in crisis work and the joint telephone service;
• You contribute ideas to the further development and evaluation of the AMBIT treatment program.

We offer you
A close-knit treatment team, in which we pay extra attention to team collaboration and development.

• Based on the CAO GGZ, the standard employment conditions and a salary in FWG scale 50-55 (min. €3560,- max. €5294,-) gross based on 36 hours, depending on education and experience;
• A contract for 24-32 hours. The days are negotiable, with the daily minimum staffing as a starting point; Wednesday is a requirement due to necessary meetings and intervision. Working hours are from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM;
• Following the MBT;
• A one-year contract, with the intention to extend this or convert it into a permanent contract;
• You receive an end-of-year bonus and holiday allowance of 8.33%, and you build up a good pension with Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn;

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

• For commuting and business travel, you receive a 2nd class mobility card, also usable for OV-fiets, or a mileage allowance;
• Discounts on insurance;
• With 11 specialties at various locations, Arkin also offers many long-term possibilities for your professional development and personal growth. For this, we have a wide range of training;
• A cafeteria plan where you can use your gross salary for extra vacation hours, bicycle purchase, and additional travel expense reimbursement;
• For your well-being, an annual balance budget of €1000 (pro rata employment) and an annual vitality budget of a maximum of €100,- (with a permanent employment of at least 18 hours per week) and access to the Nrgize platform to participate in activities such as bootcamp, yoga, and salsa dancing. Additionally, you receive unlimited access to the online course offerings.
• Recommend a colleague? Receive a total referral bonus of €1000,- (gross);

What do you bring?
You are curious about what drives and moves people, including clients, your team members, and yourself. And you like to look at this in an open manner and engage in conversation about it. You will be working in a new treatment team with a crisis-sensitive target group that sometimes asks a lot of you. You are therefore not afraid to ask for help when things are not going well.
Furthermore, we would love to receive your application if you:

• Have a completed HBO degree in the direction of Mental Health Professional, SPH, or MWD/Social Work;
• Are a team player who is willing to go the extra mile AND can sit on your hands when necessary;
• Can handle stress well and are not afraid to give or receive feedback;
• Are steady on your feet, have a positive mindset, and are introspective;
• Have room for creativity, flexibility, interest, and curiosity;
• Experience with the MBT methodology is not required, but the motivation to develop yourself in it (further) is. Experience with MBT and/or DGT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is a plus.

A Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) is a fixed part of our application procedure

Working at Mentrum
Mentrum is one of the 11 specialisms of Arkin. Together, we are the expert in the field of psychiatry and addiction care. Together, we advocate for the mental resilience of our clients.
At Arkin, 4,200 committed, driven professionals work who dare to stick their necks out. They are continuously looking for tailor-made solutions for their clients. In doing so, quality counts, time and again. We therefore encourage employees to continue developing themselves and offer courses and training for this purpose.

Want to know more about this vacancy?
Do you want to know more about this position? Please contact Vera Deltenre, operations manager, via 06-11474091.

Applying directly is also possible, of course.