Job summary
We, in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (PCFT), are delighted to invite applications for a full time Trainee Cognitive Behavioural Psychological Therapist post. This post are on the Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Serious Mental Health problems (Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder or Personality Disorders) at the Greater Manchester Mental Health Psychological Therapies Training Centre. Applications are particularly encouraged from people with an interest and knowledge / experience of Cognitive Behavioural therapy.
These post will be based in the Bury adult community mental health services . The post holder will be a member of the Secondary Care Psychological Service and the Community Mental Health Team. They will provide formal psychological interventions using newly developed skills whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. Once the course requirements are met and the post holder has achieved provisional accreditation with the BABCP, they will progress to a full-time qualified band 7 CBT Psychological Therapist role within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
This is a transition and training role, which is a fixed term contract. Once the course requirements are met and the post holder has achieved provisional accreditation with the BABCP they will progress to a full-time qualified band 7 CBT therapist role. The post holder will work within adult Community Transformed mental health services in PCFT.
To attend to the training course requirements and undertake all of the below duties under the supervision of a clinical supervisor.
Develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contribute towards the overall assessment of their care needs
Collaboratively establish individual patients goals towards recovery.
Determine suitability of specific psychological interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patients assessment/formulation
Plan, deliver and review individual and group psychological interventions for specific patients.
With service user consent, to video tape clinical sessions for viewing in clinical supervision and for submission for course assignments.
Identify gaps within and potential developments of the psychological therapy programme, reporting these to supervisory staff
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more detailed information about the role.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
OR
Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. 2 years post qualified experience for Psychological Well-being Practitioners
Desirable
Some additional training in relation to CBT, or other psychological therapies (i.e. short courses)
Significant additional training in CBT/ Psychological approaches (i.e. formal training courses, diploma, degree etc).
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
Demonstrable post qualification experience in your core profession.
Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services in a qualified role.
Significant experience of working with adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis and/ or personality disorder.
Experience of working within a mental health MDT
Experience of assessing and managing risk
Demonstrates a good understanding of psychosis and/ or personality disorder
Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
Ability to manage own caseload and time.
Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Skills and Abilities
Able to attend an academic course
Ability to complete academic components of the course
Ability to work face to face
Computer literate
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
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
High level of enthusiasm and motivation about working psychologically with clients with PD and/ or psychosis
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
Ability to work under pressure
Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Work related circumstances
Essential
Able to attend required training, including intensive teaching blocks.
Willingness to engage in specific training as required meeting the needs of this user group.
Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and stressful conditions
The capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients
Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trusts Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more detailed information about the role.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
OR
Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. 2 years post qualified experience for Psychological Well-being Practitioners
Desirable
Some additional training in relation to CBT, or other psychological therapies (i.e. short courses)
Significant additional training in CBT/ Psychological approaches (i.e. formal training courses, diploma, degree etc).
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
Demonstrable post qualification experience in your core profession.
Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services in a qualified role.
Significant experience of working with adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis and/ or personality disorder.
Experience of working within a mental health MDT
Experience of assessing and managing risk
Demonstrates a good understanding of psychosis and/ or personality disorder
Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
Ability to manage own caseload and time.
Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Skills and Abilities
Able to attend an academic course
Ability to complete academic components of the course
Ability to work face to face
Computer literate
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
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
High level of enthusiasm and motivation about working psychologically with clients with PD and/ or psychosis
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
Ability to work under pressure
Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Work related circumstances
Essential
Able to attend required training, including intensive teaching blocks.
Willingness to engage in specific training as required meeting the needs of this user group.
Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and stressful conditions
The capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients
Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trusts Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- o A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy. OR o Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. 2 years post qualified experience for Psychological Well-being Practitioners
Desirable
- Some additional training in relation to CBT, or other psychological therapies (i.e. short courses)
- o Significant additional training in CBT/ Psychological approaches (i.e. formal training courses, diploma, degree etc)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience in your core profession.
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services in a qualified role.
- Significant experience of working with adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis and/ or personality disorder.
- Experience of working within a mental health MDT
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Demonstrates a good understanding of psychosis and/ or personality disorder o Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
- Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Desirable
- Experience of working in a psycho-social way with clients with complex and severe mental health difficulties.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Lived experience
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Able to attend an academic course
- Ability to complete academic components of the course
- Ability to work face to face
- Computer literate
- 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 o
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation about working psychologically with clients with PD and/ or psychosis
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- o Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Work related circumstances
Essential
- Able to attend required training, including intensive teaching blocks.
- Willingness to engage in specific training as required meeting the needs of this user group
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and stressful conditions
- The capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- o A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy. OR o Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. 2 years post qualified experience for Psychological Well-being Practitioners
Desirable
- Some additional training in relation to CBT, or other psychological therapies (i.e. short courses)
- o Significant additional training in CBT/ Psychological approaches (i.e. formal training courses, diploma, degree etc)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience in your core profession.
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services in a qualified role.
- Significant experience of working with adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis and/ or personality disorder.
- Experience of working within a mental health MDT
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Demonstrates a good understanding of psychosis and/ or personality disorder o Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
- Demonstrates a positive attitude to working with clients with personality disorder/interpersonal difficulties or psychosis.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Desirable
- Experience of working in a psycho-social way with clients with complex and severe mental health difficulties.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Lived experience
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Able to attend an academic course
- Ability to complete academic components of the course
- Ability to work face to face
- Computer literate
- 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 o
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation about working psychologically with clients with PD and/ or psychosis
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- o Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Work related circumstances
Essential
- Able to attend required training, including intensive teaching blocks.
- Willingness to engage in specific training as required meeting the needs of this user group
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and stressful conditions
- The capacity to tolerate frequent exposure to unpredictable working conditions including demanding, verbally and possibly physically aggressive clients
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure
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).
