Job summary
Exciting CBT job in a dynamic voluntary sector adolescent mental health service.
Open Door is a highly-regarded NHS commissioned voluntary sector service based in 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 part-time post, with flexibility
around working hours and days of the week. Successful applicants
are expected to work some after school times (4-7pm). It is expected that this work will be face-to-face but there may be the possibility of some remote work depending on service needs.
We are looking for an experienced CBT therapist 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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Job description
Job responsibilities
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
- 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 Door’s 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 Door’s 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 support for colleagues in team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.
- To provide, when opportunities arise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
- 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 Door’s 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 Door’s 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 support for colleagues in team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.
- To provide, when opportunities arise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Dependent on Discipline:
- CBT Therapist qualification
- BABCP accreditation for CBT therapists, or working towards accreditation
- To have successfully completed a post graduate training in Clinical Psychology/Counselling Psychology; as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Social worker, or as a CBT Practitioner or to be approaching the end of training.
- To maintain eligibility for registration as a full member of the BPS/NMC/BABCP/HCPC/ CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification dependent on training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a therapist in a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
- Experience in the process of assessment of risk and clinical need.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Knowledge of other therapeutic modalities.
- Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Dependent on Discipline:
- CBT Therapist qualification
- BABCP accreditation for CBT therapists, or working towards accreditation
- To have successfully completed a post graduate training in Clinical Psychology/Counselling Psychology; as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Social worker, or as a CBT Practitioner or to be approaching the end of training.
- To maintain eligibility for registration as a full member of the BPS/NMC/BABCP/HCPC/ CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification dependent on training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a therapist in a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
- Experience in the process of assessment of risk and clinical need.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Knowledge of other therapeutic modalities.
- Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.
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).
