Senior CBT Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

1. To work as part of the Senior Management Team lead by the Clinical Lead, ensuring that the service continues to deliver excellent clinical services across the borough.

2. To provide line management and clinical supervision to the service unit as required.

3. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

4. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients emotional and mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

5. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, groups families and carers , adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

6. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

7. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

8. To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation regarding psychological therapy to other members of staff, and to clients contributing directly in formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans when required.

9. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

11. To communicate highly complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner in situations with patients who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to CBT as agreed with the head of service.

3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.

4. To provide professional and clinical supervision to qualified PWPs and/or High Intensity/CBT therapists, trainees and assistant clinical/counselling psychologists.

5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of other staff as appropriate.

6. To provide advice, consultation and training in CBT to staff working with individuals and groups across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

1. To provide direct line management of a unit of team members as delegated by the Clinical Lead

2. To provide clinical supervision for the unit, or as required by the Clinical lead.

3. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

4. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

5. To facilitate the effective management of the clinical workloads of staff, trainees and honorary staff, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.

6. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of other clinical staff.

1. To collect patient data as requested by the team leader as compatible with the IAPT minimum data set.

2. To use computers to write reports and record data, including the use of statistical packages as part of psychological testing, research and assessment when needed. To be able to use research databases and advanced tools for analysis at both quantitative and qualitative levels.

3. To support other team members to collect and input IAPTUS data correctly.

4. To assist the team leader and head of service in the collection and analysis of service output and outcome data

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychological therapies 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 psychological therapies and related disciplines.

3. 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 of the BACBP, NMC, BACP, HPC and Trust policies and procedures.

4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To be noted:

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.

This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.

The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Core training in CBT evidenced by completion of CBT diploma from BABCP Level 2 accredited course
• BABCP Accreditation

Desirable

• Additional training in specific areas such as Long term health conditions, EMDR, Couples therapy, IPT or other IAPT approved treatment modalities

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working in Talking Therapies, in providing CBT assessments and treatments across a range of severities and presentations
• Wide range of clinical experience across different client groups
• Training in and experience of providing formal supervision, case management and line management in a Talking Therapies setting

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• An ability to formulate and provide NICE compliant treatment for clients with moderate-severe mental health difficulties and those with complex presentations.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills and experience in providing consultation to different groups including other services and the voluntary sector

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in primary care and step2/step 3.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT and NICE recommended treatment models.

Other

Desirable

• Knowledge of key aspects of clinical governance as relating to NHS Talking Therapies and NHS practice more generally.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, EN2 8JL

Enfield

EN2 8JL

Employer's website

http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)