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Job summary

Main area
Children & Young People
Grade
Band 7
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term: 12 months (Mon-Fri 9-5))
Hours
37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
Job ref
277-6738800-CYP
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stepping Stones House
Town
Bromley
Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/11/2024 23:59

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Senior CAMHS CBT Therapist

Band 7

Job overview

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic CAMHS Senior CBT Therapist to provide a specialist service for young people in the Borough of Bromley within our Generic Team.
 
The Bromley Generic Team is a friendly, dynamic multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions, including groups, for young people between the ages of 0-18 years and their families who are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The role provides opportunities for brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies.  In addition, the role offers opportunities to supervise more junior staff and take a lead on areas identified as priorities for improving our service. The successful candidate will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service. 
 

Main duties of the job

Bromley Service Overview:
Bromley CAMHS is part of Oxleas Children and Young Person Directorate.  The Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
 
Bromley CAMHS is large and comprises of the following teams:
  • Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway
  • Generic Team
  • Looked After and Adopted Children Team
  • Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities Team
Bromley CAMHS service opening hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and utilises hybrid working incorporating virtual, telephone and in person appointments. 
 
Psychological Therapies:
The post-holder will also be part of a larger psychological therapies team within Bromley CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. CPD opportunities are linked to personal development review processes and funded by Psychological Therapies Department.
 
This role includes a varied workload and set of responsibilities including clinical work, teaching, training, supervision,  and service development. 

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a Senior CBT CAMHS service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Generic Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention. 
 
Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychological therapies colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to the wider team colleagues and trainees.
 
Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
 
Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. 
 
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
 

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, clinical/counselling psychology with appropriate up-to-date registration.
  • To have completed a post-graduate accredited qualification in CBT

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including work with children.
  • Experience of working with a variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
  • CAMHS experience
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT within a mental health setting.
  • Knowledge/skills in the theory and practice of CBT with children and young people.
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to use CYP IAPT outcome measures and integrate these into therapy

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer. Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tanya Martin
Job title
Generic Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02083154430

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