Long Covid CBT Therapist - Band 7 FTC

Job summary

Long Covid Rehabilitation CBT THERAPIST

37.5 hours per week, part time hours considered

12 month Fixed Term Contract or secondment (see form attached)

• Are you an experienced therapist looking for a new challenge?
• Are you interested in pathway development?
• Do you want to continue to develop your clinical and multi-disciplinary skills?
• Are you interested in the development of Long COVID services and managing patient with psychological problems as a result of Long COVID?

The Coventry & Warwickshire Long Covid Pathway is part of the post covid integrated system and aims to provide a first-class community rehabilitation service to adults with Post Covid syndrome. You will be working in a new service with many opportunities for individual and service development.

Please note many Trust interviews take 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

As part of the Rehabilitation team, you will work alongside the Long Covid Rehab coordinators, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Psychologists, and Technical instructors. You will work across the ICS including the CWPT Long Covid clinic, SWFT Long Covid clinic, Rugby Long covid clinic, and George Elliot Long covid clinic .

You will be responsible for developing and delivering rehabilitation to patients recovering from Post Covid syndrome. You will be involved in multidisciplinary team working, and help the patient access interventions and education from different sources, including face to face and virtual interventions. The post holder will listen and facilitate discussion, be able to problem solve and set meaningful goals with these patients and to provide 1:1 treatment where appropriate.

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.

About us

We work alongside Coventry and Warwickshire MIND to deliver the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.