Job summary
Psychological Therapist for Community Mental Health & Wellbeing Service - Band 7
Full time (part time considered), permanent role
We are excited to offer the opportunity to join an innovative, supportive and well-established multidisciplinary team working with adults, aged 17 years and over with histories of complex trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic anxiety and depression, complex obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, psychoses and attachment difficulties. The psychology team is embedded within a community mental health team that values psychological therapy, formulation and psychologically-informed interventions. This enables us to work safely and creatively with service users who have long-standing and complex needs, either in face-to-face therapy or indirectly alongside our team colleagues.
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Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
We are looking for a psychological therapist or CBT Therapist who can provide evidence based therapies for individuals with complex mental health presentations which include a history of trauma. They would also need to be passionate about improving mental health and alleviating suffering, and who can complement or enhance our caring and dedicated team. Therefore we would welcome applications from those who are trained in EMDR therapy and are accredited or working towards accreditation, as you will be supported by the EMDR consultant in the team. Skills in working within models of compassionate focused therapy would also be advantageous.
Within our psychology team we currently offer compassion focused therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, schema therapy, psychodynamic and relational therapies. Formal and informal supervision from a variety of therapeutic orientations is available.
About us
In addition, our multidisciplinary team is invested in improving psychological thinking within and outside of our Service, so working well within a team setting is essential, alongside enthusiasm for providing informal and formal supervision, consultation, teaching and contributing to Service and policy development.
Our goal is never to feel as if we are working in isolation, and we have accessible and reflective team managers, medics and other colleagues. You will also be part of weekly psychology meetings where we provide peer supervision and discuss clinical and Service.
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree /Relevant Professional Qualification i.e RMN
- Current registration with Professional Body appropriate to qualifications
- Specialist Therapy Qualification, as appropriate to the role
- Relevant further training and experience including specialist short courses which are relevant to a secondary care team e.g. Complex Trauma, Personality disorders, CFT, ACT, BDD to masters or equivalent level
- Evidence of continuing professional development and other CPD relevant to the client group
- Experience working with people with clients with anxiety disorders, depression and personality disorders and demonstrating the competences as required.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in psychological therapy in the field of adult mental health settings, including assessment, formulation and interventions, drawing on a evidence based psychological models and knowledge, and including work with service users with mild, moderate, severe and enduring mental health problems, including anxiety, depression and/or personality disorder
- Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Specialist model specific and individualised psychological assessment, formulation and Intervention skills.
- Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-based psychological therapies
- Skilled and competent in evidence-based psychological therapies
- Knowledge of psychological theory and practice relevant to IPU 3-8 services
- The ability to analyse complex data and make expert judgements based on Information from a variety of sources
- The ability to plan, organise and deliver work, exercising clinical judgement, and managing time effectively
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence frameworks for delivering effective psychological interventions
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust's services and have access to an independent means of transport.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree /Relevant Professional Qualification i.e RMN
- Current registration with Professional Body appropriate to qualifications
- Specialist Therapy Qualification, as appropriate to the role
- Relevant further training and experience including specialist short courses which are relevant to a secondary care team e.g. Complex Trauma, Personality disorders, CFT, ACT, BDD to masters or equivalent level
- Evidence of continuing professional development and other CPD relevant to the client group
- Experience working with people with clients with anxiety disorders, depression and personality disorders and demonstrating the competences as required.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in psychological therapy in the field of adult mental health settings, including assessment, formulation and interventions, drawing on a evidence based psychological models and knowledge, and including work with service users with mild, moderate, severe and enduring mental health problems, including anxiety, depression and/or personality disorder
- Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Specialist model specific and individualised psychological assessment, formulation and Intervention skills.
- Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-based psychological therapies
- Skilled and competent in evidence-based psychological therapies
- Knowledge of psychological theory and practice relevant to IPU 3-8 services
- The ability to analyse complex data and make expert judgements based on Information from a variety of sources
- The ability to plan, organise and deliver work, exercising clinical judgement, and managing time effectively
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence frameworks for delivering effective psychological interventions
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Other
Essential
- Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust's services and have access to an independent means of transport.
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).
