Job summary
We are looking for a CBT Therapist 37.5 hours per week to join our team.
Youwill provide high intensity cognitive behavioural interventions to clients who have a range of mild to moderate common mental health problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.
You will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary.
Main duties of the job
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- Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions within the stepped care model.
- While in a duty worker role make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the stepped care principles and protocols, and direct/signpost unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
You can expect Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is tailored to meet your professional development; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team. The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge
Job description
Job responsibilities
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- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g. BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g., National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
- Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies.
- Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
- Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with the Clinical Lead.
- Participate in individual performance review ( PDR ) and respond to agreed objectives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g. BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g., National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
- Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies.
- Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
- Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with the Clinical Lead.
- Participate in individual performance review ( PDR ) and respond to agreed objectives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Diploma in CBT
Desirable
- Accreditation (or near obtaining this) with BABCP as a CBT therapist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in psychological therapies services
Desirable
- Experience of working in an IAPT service
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Diploma in CBT
Desirable
- Accreditation (or near obtaining this) with BABCP as a CBT therapist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in psychological therapies services
Desirable
- Experience of working in an IAPT service
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
