Job summary
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist / Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen at the Trust wide Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Service. We are seeking a motivated CBT therapist to join our fantastic team, as a secondment or on a fixed term basis. There is the strong possibility that this post will be made permanent in due course.
- Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills in this specialism and build on your experience to progress into other roles as they arise. We offer ongoing and regular supervision (individual and peer), training and development in the specialism.
Main duties of the job
The Trust wide OCD and BDD service provides outpatient CBT across all 5 boroughs of the Trust, offering clinic, home or community based assessments and treatments to people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hoarding Disorder and other complex and severe anxiety disorders. Treatment is delivered on an individual or group basis. The clinician needs to be prepared to travel around the 5 boroughs and would be based at Springfield Hospital, though from Summer 2025 the base may move to Tolworth Hospital.
Skills and qualities that will be valued in successful applicants include an ability to work independently and take initiative, alongside being an excellent team player.
Applicants could come from a range of professionals but must be appropriately qualified and accredited, or working towards accreditation, with BABCP, or be registered with HCPC if applying as a Clinical Psychologist. It is desirable that applicants have experience of working with OCD and BDD, and it is essential that applicants are keen to learn new skills within this specialism.
About us
Our friendly, supportive and experienced team, comprising of CBTs with varied core professional backgrounds, a Psychologist and Psychiatrists meet weekly for referrals, assessment feedbacks and peer supervision. We are a small team (3.8 wte) with the majority of us having worked in this specialism for many years. We welcome new ideas and fresh innovation, and where possible support this in action.
Tooting (Wandsworth)
Our Trust headquarters is located within the impressive grounds of Springfield University Hospital in Tooting and we also operate in nearly 100 other locations throughout the UK. This is easily accessible via the Northern Line (Tooting Bec Station) and via private transport. The Trust provides subsidised parking fares for all our substantive staff. Our main site is located immediately next to Tooting High Street where staff can easily access a range of shops, cafs and restaurants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a specialist cognitive behavioural assessment and therapy service to patients referred to the Trustwide Service for OCD/BDD. This will include offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to other healthcare workers Trust-wide. The Trust wide service offers specialist input throughout the severity spectrum. These interventions are offered in a hub and Spoke format with the therapists spending most of their working day in the community and delivering much of the treatment in the patients homes.
This service, operating within recognised professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trusts policies and procedures. The post holder is expected to contribute to research , audit and service development within the service.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
This post is part of the Specialist Services Directorate. The post holder will work clinically within tertiary care settings, seeing adults (people aged 18 and over).
KEY RESULT AREAS
Clinical:
- To identify the nature, severity and complexity of adult patients mental health problems, and to advise both patients and their referrers on appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other highly specialist services and/or non-statutory services where appropriate.
- To formulate and implement plans for the intensive psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy.
Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines from a CBT therapist and where appropriate other senior professional colleagues.
- To gain additional specialist experience and skills relevant to the service (as agreed with the professional lead and service manager) up to two sessions per week (pro-rata) within the service area within which the post holder is employed.
- To take part in regular internal continuing professional development and participate in external CPD which is linked to appraisal goals.
- To provide specialist supervision and guidance to other clinicians and the non-statutory sector, as appropriate.
Research and Service Evaluation.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work within the Trust wide service.
- To contribute to appropriate research audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision and identify areas for service improvement.
- To contribute to annual reports for the Trust wide service.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To receive regular supervision in managing the post holders practice in an effective and efficient way.
- To take part in regular professional appraisal, identifying areas for continuing professional development.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and or organisational matters need addressing.
Other
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedure.
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy and related disciplines.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a specialist cognitive behavioural assessment and therapy service to patients referred to the Trustwide Service for OCD/BDD. This will include offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to other healthcare workers Trust-wide. The Trust wide service offers specialist input throughout the severity spectrum. These interventions are offered in a hub and Spoke format with the therapists spending most of their working day in the community and delivering much of the treatment in the patients homes.
This service, operating within recognised professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trusts policies and procedures. The post holder is expected to contribute to research , audit and service development within the service.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
This post is part of the Specialist Services Directorate. The post holder will work clinically within tertiary care settings, seeing adults (people aged 18 and over).
KEY RESULT AREAS
Clinical:
- To identify the nature, severity and complexity of adult patients mental health problems, and to advise both patients and their referrers on appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other highly specialist services and/or non-statutory services where appropriate.
- To formulate and implement plans for the intensive psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy.
Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines from a CBT therapist and where appropriate other senior professional colleagues.
- To gain additional specialist experience and skills relevant to the service (as agreed with the professional lead and service manager) up to two sessions per week (pro-rata) within the service area within which the post holder is employed.
- To take part in regular internal continuing professional development and participate in external CPD which is linked to appraisal goals.
- To provide specialist supervision and guidance to other clinicians and the non-statutory sector, as appropriate.
Research and Service Evaluation.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work within the Trust wide service.
- To contribute to appropriate research audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision and identify areas for service improvement.
- To contribute to annual reports for the Trust wide service.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To receive regular supervision in managing the post holders practice in an effective and efficient way.
- To take part in regular professional appraisal, identifying areas for continuing professional development.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and or organisational matters need addressing.
Other
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedure.
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy and related disciplines.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification in a core graduate or post graduate mental health profession and registered with a professional body.
- oAccredited practitioner of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy [CBT] by the British Association of Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP)
- oEvidence of regular post qualification development.
Desirable
- oAdvanced training in Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Exprience
Essential
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse
- oExperience of assessment and treatment of people with common mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity, using evidence based psychological therapies, particularly CBT
- oDemonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist cognitive behaviour therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology and Psychotherapies.
Desirable
- oExperience of working in both primary and secondary mental health care, including multi-agency working
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification in a core graduate or post graduate mental health profession and registered with a professional body.
- oAccredited practitioner of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy [CBT] by the British Association of Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP)
- oEvidence of regular post qualification development.
Desirable
- oAdvanced training in Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Exprience
Essential
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse
- oExperience of assessment and treatment of people with common mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity, using evidence based psychological therapies, particularly CBT
- oDemonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist cognitive behaviour therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology and Psychotherapies.
Desirable
- oExperience of working in both primary and secondary mental health care, including multi-agency working
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).
