Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Stoke on Trent Wellbeing Service. The Stoke-on-Trent Wellbeing Service is a partnership between North Staffs Combined Health Care, the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and third sector providers and is an innovative high performing IAPT team providing effective treatments for a broad range of mental health problems in primary care, focusing on anxiety disorders and depression.
We are looking to recruit several trainee CBT Therapists. The successful applicants should have 1-2 years' experience working in a mental health setting and ideally hold a core mental health professional qualification. Applicants will need to apply in parallel to the Post Graduate Diploma in CBT via either the Staffordshire or Birmingham University websites for the 2022/23 and 2023/2024 cohorts commencing in October 2022 and January 2023.
If successful, applicants will be funded to work as trainee HITs within the Stoke on Trent Wellbeing Service.
Main duties of the job
Under supervision the trainee will carry out the role of a CBT Therapist providing detailed assessments and 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. The trainee will be supervised according to the local University arrangements.
The post holder will work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary.
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.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions within the stepped care model. Assessment is a main component of this role and requires the post holder to concentrate for long periods of time paying attention to detail in relation to information from clients and referrers.
- 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.
- Develop communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
- Begin to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service and university principles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions within the stepped care model. Assessment is a main component of this role and requires the post holder to concentrate for long periods of time paying attention to detail in relation to information from clients and referrers.
- 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.
- Develop communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
- Begin to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service and university principles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Entry requirements for Post Graduate Diploma in CBT
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in psychological therapies services
Knowledge
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Entry requirements for Post Graduate Diploma in CBT
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in psychological therapies services
Knowledge
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
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).
Additional information
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).
