Job summary
IAPT Clinical Supervisor (Counselling for Depression)
Across all Localities within CWPT
Based: Newfield House Coventry and The Railings Rugby
Reports to Head of Service
Band 7 permanent
37.5 Hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Coventry, Warwickshire, and Solihull IAPT as a Counselling for Depression Clinical Supervisor. The service is delivered jointly by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and Mind Mental Health Charity.
We are seeking a driven and enthusiastic individual with sound clinical knowledge, high level of interpersonal skills and strong supervisory and leadership qualities. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to counsellors across the IAPT service and hold small clinical caseload, whilst working closely with other senior colleagues, clinical leaders, and wider stakeholders. The role includes a wide range of duties, which includes a focus on meeting the IAPT KPI targets whilst ensuring the best care possible and will report directly to the Head of Service.
Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached supporting information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Providing strong supervisory, clinical leadership, training and support to IAPT clinicians ensuring that as a service we continue to deliver evidence based interventions.
To work with the senior leadership team and key stakeholders to deliver KPI targets and service improvement initiatives, achieving the best outcomes for patients
To work alongside IAPT colleagues, acute services, secondary care mental health, other community services and stakeholders to deliver a whole integrated system approach across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
The successful candidate will be based within the service within the Coventry and Rugby team but some travel across the service will be needed. Agile working is also negotiable.
About us
CWPT IAPT is a progressive service which encourages professional development, supervision and peer support with an identifiable career pathway. We work closely with members of the local community, service Commissioners, GPs, secondary care services and various voluntary sector agencies.
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 supporting information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached supporting information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and Successfully completed the IAPT Counselling for Depression (CfD) course and the CfD Supervisors training with an accredited course provide
- BACP/UKCP accredited
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Full range of skills as laid out in the competency framework for Humanistic Psychological Therapies (Roth AD, Hill A, Pilling S 2009)
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification counselling practice supervised to BACP/UKCP requirements
- Demonstrable experience of working in a medical setting, IAPT, primary care, mental health services, social services or equivalent setting
- Demonstrable experience in a supervisory role with the ability to supervise, mentor, and support staff
- Highly experienced in working therapeutically with a diverse and complex patient population, including patients from diverse ethnic backgrounds, using interpreters if needed. Sensitive to and respectful of patients' differing cultural, religious and social issues.
Other
Essential
- Car driver and car owner and able to move within one day to more than one practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and Successfully completed the IAPT Counselling for Depression (CfD) course and the CfD Supervisors training with an accredited course provide
- BACP/UKCP accredited
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Full range of skills as laid out in the competency framework for Humanistic Psychological Therapies (Roth AD, Hill A, Pilling S 2009)
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification counselling practice supervised to BACP/UKCP requirements
- Demonstrable experience of working in a medical setting, IAPT, primary care, mental health services, social services or equivalent setting
- Demonstrable experience in a supervisory role with the ability to supervise, mentor, and support staff
- Highly experienced in working therapeutically with a diverse and complex patient population, including patients from diverse ethnic backgrounds, using interpreters if needed. Sensitive to and respectful of patients' differing cultural, religious and social issues.
Other
Essential
- Car driver and car owner and able to move within one day to more than one 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.
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).
