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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-PC-20635
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Woodside
Town
Hellingly
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

CBT Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Health in Mind is an NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Service. We provide support across the whole of East Sussex (with the exception of Brighton and Hove). As a service we offer psychological support to people presenting with mild to moderate anxiety disorders and depression. Please see our website for further information on https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/.

We are recruiting for Cognitive Behavioural Therapists to work within the Health in Mind team. You must be qualified and accredited or accreditable with the BABCP and have applied for BABCP accreditation. We will also accept applications from trainee CBT therapists on a post graduate Diploma BABCP accreditable course that are due to qualify in the next couple of months. For these cases, trainees will need to have completed and passed the course and have applied for BABCP accreditation before taking on the role. The successful applicants will be assigned to a more specific geographical area upon appointment.

 

Main duties of the job

The main duties include initial assessments following a referral to our service, offering evidence-based step 3 CBT interventions for treatment of a range of difficulties including depression, health anxiety, BDD, panic disorder, PTSD, OCD, GAD and specific phobias.   The successful applicant should have excellent clinical skills in assessment and treatment, working collaboratively with both our service users and the wider team. You will be working closely with other professional groups within the team, in particular your step 3 colleagues and step 2 psychological wellbeing practitioners.  Providing advice and support to your colleagues is therefore integral part of this role. The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, such as GPs, secondary mental health services and non-statutory organisations is encouraged. The post holder will also contribute to broader Service and Trust developments.   Please see job description for full details of this post.

 

Working for our organisation

The client's experience of our service is very important to us. We work towards supporting clients in their recovery by offering evidence-based therapy with therapists who receive regular and supportive supervision and regular CPD.   We promote service user involvement. Health in Mind has a Service User Steering Group which provides valuable input to our service design and delivery.  We care about our staff. We have a staff-wellbeing-champions team, and are committed to staff engagement. We know that for our clinicians to do a good job they need to feel supported.  There is opportunity for varied and flexible working patterns and these can be discussed in the interview. We are keen for our clinicians to grow. We aim to offer staff individual appraisals with the opportunity to become involved in a range of activities, such as group-based interventions, teaching, supervision and service development

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·         To provide CBT to services users in primary care with difficulties with depression and anxiety in line

with best, evidence-based practice

·         To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous

professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment,

treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.

·         To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions

in clinical issues.

·         To clinically supervise Psychological Therapists, Trainee Psychological Therapists and Psychological

Practitioners or be willing to undertake supervision training if not trained in supervision.

·         To provide consultation and advice about psychological issues to other members of the

team/service and other professionals working with service users.

·         Working one weekday evening until 8pm is required

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in one of the Appendices
  • Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the same Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
  • A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
  • Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
  • Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
  • Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
  • Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
  • A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the same appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
  • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the same appendix.

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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
Phil Powell
Job title
Senior Psychological Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
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