Job summary
Are you a qualified CBT Therapist looking for the next step in your career? Are you looking to work in a team renowned for its supportive culture? Do you want to be part of a well-established service making a difference in the community? If you want to join one of the country's leading IAPT services, then we would love to hear from you!
We're one of the top performing IAPT services in the country, leading the way in the provision of NICE-recommended psychological therapies.We're focused on clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working.
Time to Talk is on an exciting journey of significant investment and expansion. We are looking for IAPT accredited CBT Therapists to join our team and help us continue to build on our success and work with a range of adults with anxiety, depression and trauma-related problems in a primary care setting.
Time to Talk is very aware that you want to be happy in your work. You will be supported by your management and clinical leads and surrounded by a friendly, highly competent workforce who will be there for you and will support working in your modalities. We have taken time to create this model and culture in our service.
Main duties of the job
Provide Step 3 CBT interventions, face to face and in group settings to patients experiencing moderate to severe mental illness.
To accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
To assess clients for suitability for treatment within Time to Talk, and specifically for Step 3 Psychological Therapy.
To make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary, with due regard for assessment and management of risk. To undertake risk assessment and take the appropriate action. (This includes possibly breaching patient confidentiality in the interests of the patient or as dictated by legislation.)
To formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
About us
We're one of the top performing IAPT services in the country, leading the way in the provision of NICE-recommended psychological therapies.We're focused on clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working in both our Time to Talk core service and our Time to Talk Health long-term conditions service.
We can offer you:
- Excellent continued learning and development
- Exciting career development opportunities
- The opportunity to be part of a well-established and patient-focused service
- The chance to be part of a dedicated, professional, engaged and supportive team
- Regular support, supervision and training
- Flexible working opportunities
- Opportunities to engage in a number of interesting and social activities led by a Wellbeing Lead in each locality
In response to the recent challenge of COVID-19 we have quickly adapted our service to enable the continued provision of psychological therapies via video platforms and telephone working. Staff have been equipped with laptops and mobile phones, enabling effective home working. As the situation has evolved, we have returned to working from bases and have fostered a blended way of working, in base, at home and in the community, retaining the innovations that have worked well for patients and staff wellbeing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be a Clinician providing Step 3, individual and group CBT interventions, within Time to Talk.
There will be responsibility for ensuring that the service ethos of placing patients at the centre of service delivery, and promoting mental wellbeing and emotional resilience is central to the teams activity.
Time to Talk received national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) funding in April 2010 and provides NICE compliant psychological therapies within primary care and community settings to patients with mild, moderate and severe depression, anxiety and psychological illnesses. Talking therapy interventions include psycho-educational courses, guided self-help, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling, group CBT (Mood Management course) and Mindfulness Courses. All staff within Time to Talk are required to use the IAPTus data collection and clinical record management system. We are commissioned to provide accessible services and applicants must be able to work a 7.5 hour day between 8am and 8pm, 1 late clinic to be offered per week.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
Our main base is in Bicentennial Building in Chichester, but you may be placed in one of our venues across Chichester or Bognor.
If youd like to discuss flexible working opportunities, or chat about what Time to Talk can offer you- get in touch via email to k.stanton@nhs.net
You can get in touch if youre currently training and wish to speak about the next step in your career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be a Clinician providing Step 3, individual and group CBT interventions, within Time to Talk.
There will be responsibility for ensuring that the service ethos of placing patients at the centre of service delivery, and promoting mental wellbeing and emotional resilience is central to the teams activity.
Time to Talk received national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) funding in April 2010 and provides NICE compliant psychological therapies within primary care and community settings to patients with mild, moderate and severe depression, anxiety and psychological illnesses. Talking therapy interventions include psycho-educational courses, guided self-help, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling, group CBT (Mood Management course) and Mindfulness Courses. All staff within Time to Talk are required to use the IAPTus data collection and clinical record management system. We are commissioned to provide accessible services and applicants must be able to work a 7.5 hour day between 8am and 8pm, 1 late clinic to be offered per week.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
Our main base is in Bicentennial Building in Chichester, but you may be placed in one of our venues across Chichester or Bognor.
If youd like to discuss flexible working opportunities, or chat about what Time to Talk can offer you- get in touch via email to k.stanton@nhs.net
You can get in touch if youre currently training and wish to speak about the next step in your career.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Step 3 level Psychological Therapy qualification in CBT recognised as conferring eligibility for BABCP accreditation
- Membership of a relevant professional body
- Accreditation with relevant professional body: Relevant professional accreditation. OR IF NOT - Can provide evidence of having submitted for BABCP accreditation with a view to obtaining it.
Desirable
- Additional qualification in a relevant discipline (eg EMDR, Mindfulness, Group work)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with the full range of common mental health problems as well as OCD, Phobias and Trauma
- Experience of and ability to meet agreed / specified service targets for clinical work.
- Experience and ability to manage own caseload and time
- Good record of Continuing and Professional Development in accordance with professional body of applicant. Willingness to continue to do this and to demonstrate levels congruent with accreditation/reaccreditation
- Have conducted assessments for suitability for treatment, conducted assessments according to service criteria
Desirable
- Experience of working in within NHS or Primary Care Services
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of working therapeutically with patients who have Long Term Conditions and/or Medically unexplained symptoms
Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as required for professional accreditation as Psychological Therapist - CBT
- Demonstrates knowledge of stepped care approach and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
- Computer literate [competent with standard software packages - internet, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communications
- Ability to demonstrate use of robust risk assessment and risk management skills using service protocols and guidance
- Ability to develop appropriate therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates high standard of record keeping, with due regard for NHS Confidentiality, Data Protection and Information governance, abiding by codes of ethics and guidance for good practice of professional body.
- Awareness of how Step 3 CBT fits into a mental health referral pathway
Desirable
- Has used IAPTus or equivalent computerised health record system for keeping patient records
- Extensive knowledge of specialist services available nationally and locally.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Commitment to the ethos of recovery and patient focused care, as identified in Wellness Recovery Action Plan [WRAP]
- Ability to work with a team and foster good working relationships
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Step 3 level Psychological Therapy qualification in CBT recognised as conferring eligibility for BABCP accreditation
- Membership of a relevant professional body
- Accreditation with relevant professional body: Relevant professional accreditation. OR IF NOT - Can provide evidence of having submitted for BABCP accreditation with a view to obtaining it.
Desirable
- Additional qualification in a relevant discipline (eg EMDR, Mindfulness, Group work)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with the full range of common mental health problems as well as OCD, Phobias and Trauma
- Experience of and ability to meet agreed / specified service targets for clinical work.
- Experience and ability to manage own caseload and time
- Good record of Continuing and Professional Development in accordance with professional body of applicant. Willingness to continue to do this and to demonstrate levels congruent with accreditation/reaccreditation
- Have conducted assessments for suitability for treatment, conducted assessments according to service criteria
Desirable
- Experience of working in within NHS or Primary Care Services
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of working therapeutically with patients who have Long Term Conditions and/or Medically unexplained symptoms
Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as required for professional accreditation as Psychological Therapist - CBT
- Demonstrates knowledge of stepped care approach and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
- Computer literate [competent with standard software packages - internet, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communications
- Ability to demonstrate use of robust risk assessment and risk management skills using service protocols and guidance
- Ability to develop appropriate therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates high standard of record keeping, with due regard for NHS Confidentiality, Data Protection and Information governance, abiding by codes of ethics and guidance for good practice of professional body.
- Awareness of how Step 3 CBT fits into a mental health referral pathway
Desirable
- Has used IAPTus or equivalent computerised health record system for keeping patient records
- Extensive knowledge of specialist services available nationally and locally.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Commitment to the ethos of recovery and patient focused care, as identified in Wellness Recovery Action Plan [WRAP]
- Ability to work with a team and foster good working relationships
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
