Job summary
Are you interested in becoming a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT)?
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust in partnership with the University of Southampton are delighted to invite applications for full-time Trainee Cognitive Behavioural Psychological Therapist posts at Britton House, Gillingham. This post is on the Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Serious Mental Health Problems (Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder or Personality Disorders) at the University of Southampton. Applications are particularly encouraged from people with an interest in and knowledge/experience of Cognitive Behavioural therapy. These seven posts will be based in various community services across Kent, serving both working-age and older adults.The post holders 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 service they trained.
Applicant must have a core profession as outlined in the person specification. Evidence of this will be needed at the interview.
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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 with Working age adults or Older people Community Transformed mental health services in KMPT
- 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 patient's goals toward recovery.
- Determine the suitability of specific psychological interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patient's assessment/formulation
- Plan, deliver, and review individual and group psychological interventions for specific patients.
- With service user consent, to videotape 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
Come and work for us in the garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life. We are Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disabilities and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural urban areas.You will be joining friendly passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.Our StrategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.Our Vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Trainees will be supported by experienced colleagues and offered a range of opportunities to develop core CBT competencies within the workplace in conjunction with the academic support offered by the course team. You will benefit from clinical supervision on the course and in the workplace, with opportunities for peer support. You will have time for study and assignments built into your job plan. In the first year of the course, you will develop your skills with a broad range of clients before specializing in working with people with Psychosis and Bipolar disorder or Personality Disorders in the second year. You will be encouraged to develop areas of interest that are relevant to the clinical work and contribute to service initiatives and development.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information regarding the main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Trainees will be supported by experienced colleagues and offered a range of opportunities to develop core CBT competencies within the workplace in conjunction with the academic support offered by the course team. You will benefit from clinical supervision on the course and in the workplace, with opportunities for peer support. You will have time for study and assignments built into your job plan. In the first year of the course, you will develop your skills with a broad range of clients before specializing in working with people with Psychosis and Bipolar disorder or Personality Disorders in the second year. You will be encouraged to develop areas of interest that are relevant to the clinical work and contribute to service initiatives and development.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information regarding the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- A recorded/registered professional qualification at graduate level (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts psychotherapy or within a psychological therapy) or Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of the BABCP
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- 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
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other mental health problems
Desirable
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
- Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a service for severe mental health problems - 4 years
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services as part of a team
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Experience of working with service users with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Person Specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- A recorded/registered professional qualification at graduate level (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts psychotherapy or within a psychological therapy) or Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of the BABCP
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- 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
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other mental health problems
Desirable
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
- Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a service for severe mental health problems - 4 years
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services as part of a team
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Experience of working with service users with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
