Job summary
Bromley Y seeks highly motivated and
enthusiastic mental health practitioners to work and train within our service. This
is an exciting opportunity for a
Trainee (CBT) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded
Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes.
We are
looking for applicants who are knowledgeable and passionate about Bromley. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide evidenced
based interventions for children, young people or families (parents/carers)
using CBT. The post holder will work
with people from various cultural backgrounds, ages and ability, using
interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equity, diversity and
inclusion.
Main duties of the job
The CYP
Psychological Therapies training programme is a government-funded initiative
aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To
help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post,
allowing services to employ trainees to help implement new & expand
existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support. This is a unique opportunity to apply your
learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions, working
with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children,
young people and their families (parents/carers). You will need to balance a
demanding course with self-study and clinical work.
This full-time training will
begin in January 2026 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and
personal study) and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients related to
training assignments. Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an
enrolled student with Kings College London. Upon completion qualified trainees
will receive a KCL Postgraduate Diploma in Children & Young Peoples Mental
Health Therapies: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.Please ensure you read the full advert, job description, KCL Programme Brochure, and Application Guidance carefully.
About us
Bromley
Y is a
long-established charity based in Bromley that values the voices of Children,
Young People (CYP), their families (parents) and/or carers as well as partner
agencies. We are a Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service based on the
principles of IThrive and IAPT and deliver Early Help and Prevention to those
in need. We are very proud to offer a range of therapeutic approaches, from 1:1
evidenced based interventions to group work, digital support, webinars,
mentoring and social prescribing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
With the assistance of their clinical
supervisor accept appropriate referrals
-
Assess clients for suitability for the
treatment for which modality specific training is provided
-
Make decisions on suitability of new
referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer
unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as
necessary
-
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic
intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience
-
Involve the system around the child in
treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy
formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language
-
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings
relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
-
Complete all requirements relating to data
collection within the service
-
Keep coherent records of all clinical
activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team
ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to
maintain a stepped care approach
-
Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at
Kings College London including practical, academic, and practice-based
assessments, alongside private study
-
Apply learning from the training programme in practice
-
Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on
their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service
on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the
clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are
delivered
-
Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to
the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg
BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date
on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g Future
in Mind)
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
With the assistance of their clinical
supervisor accept appropriate referrals
-
Assess clients for suitability for the
treatment for which modality specific training is provided
-
Make decisions on suitability of new
referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer
unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as
necessary
-
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic
intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience
-
Involve the system around the child in
treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy
formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language
-
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings
relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
-
Complete all requirements relating to data
collection within the service
-
Keep coherent records of all clinical
activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team
ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to
maintain a stepped care approach
-
Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at
Kings College London including practical, academic, and practice-based
assessments, alongside private study
-
Apply learning from the training programme in practice
-
Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on
their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service
on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the
clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are
delivered
-
Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to
the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg
BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date
on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g Future
in Mind)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of Bromley, its children, young people and families (parents/carers)
- At least two years experience working therapeutically with children/young people in a mental health setting
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Experience of multi-agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
- Ability to balance academic course requirements, self- study and a clinical case load
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Minimum second-class Bachelors Degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc). OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but with relevant professional experience are encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- A core profession as recognised by BABCP (for example, mental health nursing, social work) or a level 6 qualification (typically this would be an undergraduate degree) and meet the eligibility criteria for the BABCP Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route. To be eligible for the KSA route you would need to have a minimum of 2 years relevant full-time equivalent therapeutic experience in a mental health setting.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of Bromley, its children, young people and families (parents/carers)
- At least two years experience working therapeutically with children/young people in a mental health setting
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Experience of multi-agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
- Ability to balance academic course requirements, self- study and a clinical case load
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Minimum second-class Bachelors Degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc). OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but with relevant professional experience are encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- A core profession as recognised by BABCP (for example, mental health nursing, social work) or a level 6 qualification (typically this would be an undergraduate degree) and meet the eligibility criteria for the BABCP Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route. To be eligible for the KSA route you would need to have a minimum of 2 years relevant full-time equivalent therapeutic experience in a mental health setting.
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.
