Job summary
Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service (IAPT)
Band 7 IAPT CBT Therapist or Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist
Are you passionate about delivering meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients and wish to expand your skills and knowledge, in a high performing service?
Then Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service is the service for you! With the ability to work with flexibility, currently one day office based and the rest of the week working from home with the view that, in the future, there will be community-based working dependant on the needs of the service and the people that it serves. You will need to maintain a consistent CPD throughout the year as well as the opportunity for some additional training in different modalities and to be a part of service development through participation in focus groups and Quality Improvement projects, supporting further development.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for CBT Therapists or Clinical / Counselling Psychologists who are BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation to join the service at this interesting time of change and expansion within Bedfordshire.
The Service is one of four IAPT services run and administered by East London NHS Foundation Trust, the others being Newham Talking Therapies, Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies and Richmond Wellbeing Service. The four services are located organisationally in the Specialist Services Directorate and work together on joint projects.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is moving into a new phase of development and expansion. Your ideas and creativity would be welcomed in contributing to the delivery of an innovative service, which meets the needs of the local diverse community.
About us
Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service (BWS) is an expanding IAPT service that offers low and high intensity interventions in individual, couple and group formats. We consistently achieve excellent recovery and reliable improvement rates due to our focus on delivering flexible packages of care, designed to meet patient needs. We have also devised specialist treatment programmes delivering PTSD workshops, therapy tailored for the treatment of long-term conditions and the delivery of digitally enhanced therapy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification.
For further information, please contact: Shadreck Masocha, Step 3 Team Lead on 01234 880400
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification.
For further information, please contact: Shadreck Masocha, Step 3 Team Lead on 01234 880400
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIST with previous mental health experience, accredited by BABCP
- Or CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS,
- Or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology),
- Or Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
- With BABCP accreditation
Desirable
- Other relevant specialist training or qualifications and accreditation with professional body.
- Training or qualification in CBT groups
- Trained in other therapeutic approaches like EMDR
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc)
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals.
- Experience of working in primary care psychological service
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals. Experience of working in primary care psychological service Experience of running groups
Desirable
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals. Experience of working in primary care psychological service Experience of running groups
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Completed clinical audits within a service
- Skills in the use of IAPTus system
- Experience in delivering treatment via video software (eg: Webex, Teams, Zoom)
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIST with previous mental health experience, accredited by BABCP
- Or CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS,
- Or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology),
- Or Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
- With BABCP accreditation
Desirable
- Other relevant specialist training or qualifications and accreditation with professional body.
- Training or qualification in CBT groups
- Trained in other therapeutic approaches like EMDR
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc)
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals.
- Experience of working in primary care psychological service
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals. Experience of working in primary care psychological service Experience of running groups
Desirable
- Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems e.g. depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals. Experience of working in primary care psychological service Experience of running groups
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Completed clinical audits within a service
- Skills in the use of IAPTus system
- Experience in delivering treatment via video software (eg: Webex, Teams, Zoom)
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
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).
