CBT Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be registered with BABCP as a CBT Therapist and will have experience of working within a physical health setting delivering individual and group interventions. You will preferably have good knowledge of the current evidence base in relation to psychological approaches to pain management. We are particularly keen to recruit an enthusiastic and high calibre candidate with interest in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

It is an exciting time to be joining Connect Health pain services, as we continue to grow and develop our interdisciplinary pain services across the UK. Connect Health are delivering the Flippin Pain public health campaign and were highly rated by the NHS Change Challenge panel for their ehealth pain innovations in response to COVID-19.

Our service in Durham and Darlington is a community Persistent Pain service that provides a single point of access for NHS patients enabling a seamless and efficient patient journey. You will be part of a large, dynamic multidisciplinary team. The community service design allows clinicians to work together to deliver seamless and evidence-based care for patients and enables inter-disciplinary learning.

The successful candidate will deliver face to face individual assessments and therapy sessions as well as group Pain Management Programme sessions alongside colleagues. Some clinical work will be done remotely through telephone and video consultations as well as via digital platforms.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate Diploma in CBT and registration and accreditation with BABCP

Desirable

• Post-Qualification training in a psychological theory/model that is applicable to the area of pain management

Experience

Essential

• Experience of psychological/psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and primary care
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of working within a physical health setting, providing individual and group interventions
• Experience of working in interdisciplinary persistent pain services
• Experience of running pain management groups
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS, HCPC or BACP

Desirable

• Experience of the application of clinical/health/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of providing clinical supervision or consultation
• Experience of developing services

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Connect Health Group Limited

Address

Seaham Primary Care Centre

St. Johns Square

Seaham

County Durham

SR7 7JE

Employer's website

https://www.connecthealth.co.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)