CBT Therapist

Job summary

Exciting CBT jobs in a dynamic voluntary sector adolescent service

Open Door is a highly-regarded NHS commissioned voluntary sector service based in Haringey, North London, providing a range of therapeutic services for young people aged 12-24 and parents. We form part of the Haringey CAMHS pathway for 12-18-year olds. Open Door offers treatment to adolescents and young adults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. We offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy, CBT, Mindfulness Based Therapy and specialist trauma focussed therapies including EMDR.

We are a highly skilled team and many of our clinicians also teach on professional training courses. We are recruiting to a number of full or part-time posts, with flexibility around working hours and days of the week, although this is likely to include Thursdays. Successful applicants are expected to work some after school times (4-7pm). Ideally, they would also be able to attend team meetings on Tuesdays 1.00-3.00pm

We are looking for experienced CBT therapists with experience of working with adolescents to join our team. This may include therapists with specialist CBT skills, who are from the following professional backgrounds:

CBT Therapist

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Social Worker

Clinical Nurse Specialist

This may include specialising in parent work, work with 12-24 year olds, work with young adults or a combination.

To speak to a member of our recruitment team, please email Jemma Sager at enquiries@opendooronline.org

Main duties of the job

To provide an efficient, effective and highly specialist adolescent CBT assessment and treatment service for young people, and where appropriate their parents or carers.

To work in the GROW (Growth, Resilience, Optimising Wellbeing) project to develop initiatives and deliver interventions to support young people on Open Doors waiting lists. This may include guided self-help, psychoeducation and supporting the use of appropriate online resources, brief CBT interventions and groups

To make complex clinical judgements and decisions, with the assistance of colleagues and managers, about risk factors and to ensure that links are established with other agencies, particularly those in the statutory sector, to reduce risks and share responsibility within mental health networks. To participate in multi-agency meetings including Child Protection Conferences, Child in Need, Team around the Family, EHCP Annual Review meetings etc.

To participate in and contribute to the development of Open Doors programmes of audit, evaluation and research and support service users to contribute and participate and to ensure CYP-IAPT compliance.

To work autonomously within the overall policy and governance framework set out by Open Door.

To provide, when opportunities arise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist settings.

About us

Open Door is a not-for-profit organisation providing a range of free and confidential psychological therapies to young people aged 12-24, and a separate consultation service for parents of teenagers and young adults aged 12-21. Last year we worked with over 800 young people, parents and carers offering over 8,000 appointments.

Open Door is based in Haringey, North London, home to some of the most deprived and also some of the most affluent communities in the capital. We are committed to providing a service across the borough from our main bases in Crouch End and Tottenham as well as in secondary schools and online.

Open Door offers treatment to adolescents and young adults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. Whilst most of our Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapists have undertaken psychoanalytic based trainings, we also offer CBT and Mindfulness Based Therapy and specialist trauma focussed therapies including EMDR .

The clinical team currently comprises 26 therapists, many of whom are NHS trained and all of whom are professionally accredited. We are a highly skilled team and many of our clinicians also teach on professional trainings.

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