Job summary
We are excited to advertise 6 new Trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapist posts to support our Older Adult teams to provide a broader range of psychological interventions for people with mental health problems. We are looking for individuals experienced in mental health (RMNs, OTs & Social Workers are particularly encouraged to apply) to join a 2 year training scheme with a guaranteed role as a CBT Therapist on successful completion of the training and accreditation with BABCP.
You would be based with one of our CMHTs (in Croydon; Lewisham; Lambeth; Southwark) or in a Home Treatment Team (Croydon and Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham) but Trainees will be supported together through supervision. This is a brand-new opportunity created by Health Education England to support the transformation of older adult services and your training will be fully funded by the NHS. These are full time roles but applicants looking to work a minimum of 22.5 hours per week are welcome to apply.
You will also be released 1 day per week to complete a 2 year Postgraduate Diploma in CBT at UCL: first year in CBT for Anxiety and Depression and the second year specialises in CBT for Personality Disorder. Please see Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis, Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders PG Dip | UCL Psychology and Language Sciences - UCL - University College London. You would need to be able to complete the requirements of the course as well as to achieve accreditation with BABCP.
Main duties of the job
This is a training post which will have three elements: one day per week to attend training at UCL; up to two days per week to complete CBT work for the course with the remaining time used to support your host team in various ways.
It is expected that the role is focused on supporting and promoting psychological approaches in the day to day clinical work of the team so this may include group work, psychoeducation, delivering psychologically informed interventions and undertaking assessments. There will be supervision from the CMHT Psychology & Psychotherapy service to support specialist psychological practice.
This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.As a Trainee CBT Therapist, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of an Older Adults community mental health team (CMHT) delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.
About us
The SLaM Older Adult service is a dedicated service to meet the mental health needs of people aged over 65, which is highly valued by service users and their support networks. This means we work with a range of presentations from depression, anxiety to trauma and psychosis and sometimes these difficulties present in the context of dementia: our work is fascinating and important as we work with a vulnerable and interesting client group.
We are a multi-disciplinary service: our CMHTs work to provide ongoing support to people living at home whilst our HTTs provide short term input to support people in crisis Each borough CMHT is based as follows:
Croydon: Heavers Resource Centre, 122 Selhurst Road , London, SE25 6LL
Lewisham: 91 Granville Park, Lewisham, SE13 7DW
Southwark: Marina House, 63-65 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RS
Lambeth: currently Lambeth Hospital but moving to Maudsley Hospital in 2023 (Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ)
And the two HTTs are based as follows:
Croydon: Chelsham House, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, BR3 3BX
Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham: Agile working across sites with the main base at Greenvale, 5 Streatham Common South, SW16 3BS
You will be able to express a preference for location at interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role is key in providing a quality service to people seen by the Older Adults Community Mental Health Teams. Older Adults present with a wide range of mental health problems and benefit from psychosocial approaches that this post will be supported to deliver. The posts will also support general clinical functions of the team such as supporting assessments and monitoring mental health and working with colleagues to identify and address any concerns.
For more detail please see the attached Job Description and please contact jo.cook@slam.nhs.uk (Head of Psychology & Psychotherapy for Older Adults) or Natasha.Newbery@slam.nhs.uk (Lead Psychologist for CMHT Psychology & Psychotherapy) if you have any queries or would like to discuss further.
Please note: The Trainee CBT Therapist posts are training positions. Progression into a permanent contract is subject to passing the training programme and accreditation with BABCP. Successful candidates will be expected to travel to university in order to complete their one training and we anticipate that the training will take place at UCL but the position will be based in South London (Croydon, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth).
We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Please note that HEE rules that recipients of HEE funded training cannot start further HEE funded training within 2 years of a previous HEE funded training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role is key in providing a quality service to people seen by the Older Adults Community Mental Health Teams. Older Adults present with a wide range of mental health problems and benefit from psychosocial approaches that this post will be supported to deliver. The posts will also support general clinical functions of the team such as supporting assessments and monitoring mental health and working with colleagues to identify and address any concerns.
For more detail please see the attached Job Description and please contact jo.cook@slam.nhs.uk (Head of Psychology & Psychotherapy for Older Adults) or Natasha.Newbery@slam.nhs.uk (Lead Psychologist for CMHT Psychology & Psychotherapy) if you have any queries or would like to discuss further.
Please note: The Trainee CBT Therapist posts are training positions. Progression into a permanent contract is subject to passing the training programme and accreditation with BABCP. Successful candidates will be expected to travel to university in order to complete their one training and we anticipate that the training will take place at UCL but the position will be based in South London (Croydon, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth).
We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Please note that HEE rules that recipients of HEE funded training cannot start further HEE funded training within 2 years of a previous HEE funded training.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry / general practice), psychological therapy (UKCP registered), Psychology (clinical, counselling, forensic or health). Please see the BABCP website for more detail of accepted qualifications. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. Please see the BABCP website for more detail of KSA requirements.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience working in a service for severe mental health problems
- Experience of working with diverse communities within a multicultural setting
Knowledge/skills
Essential
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- 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
Desirable
- Ability to deliver psychological therapy in another locally relevant language.
Training
Essential
- Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks.
- Able to complete academic components of the course
- Able to integrate training into practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry / general practice), psychological therapy (UKCP registered), Psychology (clinical, counselling, forensic or health). Please see the BABCP website for more detail of accepted qualifications. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. Please see the BABCP website for more detail of KSA requirements.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience working in a service for severe mental health problems
- Experience of working with diverse communities within a multicultural setting
Knowledge/skills
Essential
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- 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
Desirable
- Ability to deliver psychological therapy in another locally relevant language.
Training
Essential
- Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks.
- Able to complete academic components of the course
- Able to integrate training 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).
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).
