Job summary
Discover an exceptional career opportunity as a Trainee CBT-P Therapist, specialising in either personality disorder or psychosis within the Bury South Integrated Delivery Team, located in Bury St Edmunds and serving the populations of Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Sudbury
This unique role offers a funded salary: throughout your training journey, you'll be employed at Band 6, with progression to a substantive CBT Therapist B7 position upon completion of training and BABCP accreditation.
As a pivotal member of our team, you'll collaborate closely with psychologists and other psychological therapists within the team, under the guidance of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Your primary focus will be to provide NICE concordant CBTp interventions to service users with personality disorder or psychosis, andother complex needs. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of an evolving pathway in this area, shaping the future of our services.
Support and mentorship will be at the heart of your experience, as you'll have the chance to assist others in the multidisciplinary team who are delivering these vital interventions through consultation and supervision.
Main duties of the job
- Delivering specialised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis or Personality Disorder to working-age adults, including opportunities for individual and group work.
- Collaborating within a dynamic multi-disciplinary mental health team, ensuring seamless integration of care, and providing consultation, supervision and training to non-therapist team colleagues.
- Adhering to service procedures, protocols, and guidelines to maintain exceptional standards.
- Balancing managerial and clinical supervision to optimise your performance and growth.
About us
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent overseas qualification). Other academic qualifications of an equivalent standard can be taken into account
- A core mental health practitioner qualification or KSA route
- Post qualification experience of working with people with serious mental health problems
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in mental health services Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
Desirable
- Experience in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Skills
Essential
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Other
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how they may present in Secondary Care
- Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks. This may involve significant travel and overnight stays to attend university
- Able to complete academic components of the course and put into practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent overseas qualification). Other academic qualifications of an equivalent standard can be taken into account
- A core mental health practitioner qualification or KSA route
- Post qualification experience of working with people with serious mental health problems
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in mental health services Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
Desirable
- Experience in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Skills
Essential
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Other
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how they may present in Secondary Care
- Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks. This may involve significant travel and overnight stays to attend university
- Able to complete academic components of the course and put into practice
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
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).
