Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

If you are a highly skilled and experienced Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience, then we want to hear from you. The Trust has an amazing opening for someone who is seeking the challenge of working within a highly skilled and experienced team which is continually developing its practice. We can offer excellent inhouse supervision and CPD, providing a good opportunity for skills development and enhancement.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

In addition to the above, we also offer:

A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days.
Free onsite parking.
Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

For further information please see the attached Job and Person Specification, some main duties include:

Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services and across Adult and MHSOP Planned Treatment and Recovery Teams as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist with responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.

Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research and providing expert CBT education, training and supervision to clinical staff working within or external to the Trust.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

26 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-24-0478

Job locations

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

CBT Department

Gwendolen House, LGH site, Gwendolen Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are interested in applying for this role then please read attached job description for full details of role and responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are interested in applying for this role then please read attached job description for full details of role and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A core mental health professional qualification and registration with the appropriate statutory professional regulatory body i.e., NMC, HCPC or BABCP.
Post-graduate Diploma or higher qualification in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent e.g., recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist.
Full practitioner accreditation with BABCP.

Desirable

Level 3 EMDR training.
MSc in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent.
Evidence of continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy to the standards of core professional body and the BABCP.

Experience

Desirable

Post qualification experience of delivering specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy in secondary care, for adults, or older people or children /adolescence with a range of mental health problems.
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Experience in highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy assessment and treatment in a variety of settings e.g., outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and in patients home.
Experience of delivering specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy to a wide range of patients (primarily aged 16 and above) from different demographic and cultural backgrounds, including working with interpreters.
Experience of teaching and training others using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for clinical, professional, and academic settings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A core mental health professional qualification and registration with the appropriate statutory professional regulatory body i.e., NMC, HCPC or BABCP.
Post-graduate Diploma or higher qualification in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent e.g., recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist.
Full practitioner accreditation with BABCP.

Desirable

Level 3 EMDR training.
MSc in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent.
Evidence of continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy to the standards of core professional body and the BABCP.

Experience

Desirable

Post qualification experience of delivering specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy in secondary care, for adults, or older people or children /adolescence with a range of mental health problems.
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Experience in highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy assessment and treatment in a variety of settings e.g., outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and in patients home.
Experience of delivering specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy to a wide range of patients (primarily aged 16 and above) from different demographic and cultural backgrounds, including working with interpreters.
Experience of teaching and training others using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for clinical, professional, and academic settings.

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.