Job summary
HIGH INTENSITY CBT THERAPIST
Full Time - 37.5 hours
Permanent or Fixed Term Remote Contract
Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated High Intensity CBT Therapist to join our dynamic and innovative service.
Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies has been providing a stepped care IAPT service since 2009 and consists of Psychologists, Counsellors, High-Intensity CBT therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners offering evidence-based interventions at Steps 2 and 3.
We are part of East London NHS Foundation Trust which has been rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are committed to ensuring a healthy work life balance and a positive working environment.
Main duties of the job
This post involves:
- Delivery of high quality Step 3 interventions for clients presenting with moderate to severe depression and anxiety disorders
- Delivery of 1-1 therapy and therapy groups
- Working with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters where necessary
- Carrying out telephone assessments
We are a proactive and forward looking service, with a strong commitment to meeting the needs of the diverse community where we are located and we particularly welcome applicants with fluency in Sylheti.
These vacancies are offered as a full time, permanent post, with the expectation that all clinical staff work at least one late evening per week (i.e. finishing at 7pm). If you were interested in this post as a fully remote position, this would be offered on a one year, fixed term basis. Please state your preference in your supporting information. Lastly, we are also able to consider applicants who are soon to complete their training, or who are in the process of registering with their professional body.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Please complete the NHS Jobs application form. If you are shortlisted for an interview you will be notified via email.
Interviews will take place remotely via Microsoft Teams.
Important Information:
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- CBT Therapist (Post Graduate Diploma level or above) with full BABCP accreditation.
- OR HCPC registered Counselling, Clinical or Health Psychologist
Desirable
- Formal Supervision training
- Recognised group training by a registered provider
- CBT-E/ CBT-T or other relevant ED training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of either managing or coordinating wait lists.
- Experience of managing and supervising professionals from different backgrounds.
- Experience in developing services to respond to User needs.
- Work as an experienced psychologist / psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one psychological therapy modality.
- Experience of working in specialist area of Eating Disorders or with Eating Disorders patients.
- Experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients experiencing eating disorders.
- Experience of working in an IAPT setting, or delivering treatment to primary care clients, liaising and consulting with GPs and community providers.
- Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
- Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
- Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources.
Desirable
- Work in a multicultural setting, including working with interpreters.
- Experience of working with couples, groups and families.
- Experience of working across various mental health services, including severe and complex mental health services.
- Be able to offer therapy in other languages.
- Experience of delivering groups.
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
- Able to provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
- Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
- Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
- Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
- Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
- Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
- Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
- Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
- Supervision, teaching, training: Understanding of, and commitment to, the supervision process.
- Experience of supervising other's clinical work
- Able to organise and deliver teaching and training.
- Able to contribute a Psychological perspective in work with other professional groups.
- Knowledge of guidelines and systems: Knowledge of, and ability to apply, government/advisory body frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health.
- Knowledge of mental health and primary care systems.
- Understanding and experience of carrying out audit, clinical governance and clinical effectiveness procedures.
- Planning and organisational skills: Able to plan, organise and prioritise a complex workload.
- Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills
- Information resources: Able to record and report on clinical information.
- Competent in use of IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.
- Competent use of clinical data systems to record and report on performance activity.
- Research & Guidance: Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
- Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group.
- Cultural awareness: Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
- Flexibility: Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need.
Other
Essential
- Personal Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
- Physical effort: Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial proportion of working time
- Mental effort: Able to concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time, during client contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
- Working conditions: Able to manage effectively verbal aggression from service users, families, etc and the risk of physical aggression.
- Values: Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
- Committed to reflective practice. Able to work to professional guidelines. Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice, of being guided by precedent and of working towards defined results.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- CBT Therapist (Post Graduate Diploma level or above) with full BABCP accreditation.
- OR HCPC registered Counselling, Clinical or Health Psychologist
Desirable
- Formal Supervision training
- Recognised group training by a registered provider
- CBT-E/ CBT-T or other relevant ED training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of either managing or coordinating wait lists.
- Experience of managing and supervising professionals from different backgrounds.
- Experience in developing services to respond to User needs.
- Work as an experienced psychologist / psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one psychological therapy modality.
- Experience of working in specialist area of Eating Disorders or with Eating Disorders patients.
- Experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients experiencing eating disorders.
- Experience of working in an IAPT setting, or delivering treatment to primary care clients, liaising and consulting with GPs and community providers.
- Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
- Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
- Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources.
Desirable
- Work in a multicultural setting, including working with interpreters.
- Experience of working with couples, groups and families.
- Experience of working across various mental health services, including severe and complex mental health services.
- Be able to offer therapy in other languages.
- Experience of delivering groups.
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
- Able to provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
- Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
- Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
- Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
- Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
- Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
- Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
- Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
- Supervision, teaching, training: Understanding of, and commitment to, the supervision process.
- Experience of supervising other's clinical work
- Able to organise and deliver teaching and training.
- Able to contribute a Psychological perspective in work with other professional groups.
- Knowledge of guidelines and systems: Knowledge of, and ability to apply, government/advisory body frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health.
- Knowledge of mental health and primary care systems.
- Understanding and experience of carrying out audit, clinical governance and clinical effectiveness procedures.
- Planning and organisational skills: Able to plan, organise and prioritise a complex workload.
- Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills
- Information resources: Able to record and report on clinical information.
- Competent in use of IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.
- Competent use of clinical data systems to record and report on performance activity.
- Research & Guidance: Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
- Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group.
- Cultural awareness: Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
- Flexibility: Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need.
Other
Essential
- Personal Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
- Physical effort: Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial proportion of working time
- Mental effort: Able to concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time, during client contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
- Working conditions: Able to manage effectively verbal aggression from service users, families, etc and the risk of physical aggression.
- Values: Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
- Committed to reflective practice. Able to work to professional guidelines. Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice, of being guided by precedent and of working towards defined results.
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
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).
