Job summary
22.5 hours per week. A
24-month fixed term position acting as the Regional Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) Lead. This is an exciting new post, developed as
part of Livewell SW hosting the Southwest Mental Health Workforce Development
Unit. The unit is a brand-new innovation between Livewell SW and the regional
NHSE mental health team set up to develop the workforce across
the region.
We
are looking for an innovative candidate who will lead in the development of
this new CBTp network and will be key to developing both the role and network. They will provide clinical leadership
and champion the CBTp network and will advise on further development
of CBTp supervision capacity in the southwest.
We
are looking for someone who has experience of providing, developing, and
managing highly specialist CBTp interventions to service users with psychosis
and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to
carers and professional colleagues.
The
hours are negotiable but are expected to be between 1 and 3 days
per week. Candidates may be
Seconded from their current posts or appointed via a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) agreement.
Interviews -Scheduled for Wednesday 9th
August 2023, please ensure you are available on this date before submitting
your application. Any restrictions to your availability please
contact Colin Turner (colin.turner@nhs.net) or Alex Stirzaker (alex.stirzaker1@nhs.net) regarding an alternative.
Main duties of the job
- Support development
and provision of a CBT for Psychosis and Bipolar (CBTp) clinical network across
the southwest
- Provide clinical
leadership and champion the CBTp network within the southwest
- Audit then increase CBTp
supervision capacity within the southwest
- Provide CBTp supervision
to trainee CBT therapists where needed
- Provide clinical advice to
constituent organisations (STPs, commissioners and providers) in relation to
CBTp
- Communicate the clinical
networks focus on quality and outcomes from national through to local level,
allowing the local network to feed ideas and input back to NHS England (as
appropriate).
- Raise awareness of training courses
that increase the capacity, and especially the supervision capacity of the CBTp
workforce to deliver evidenced based therapies.
- Foster a culture of
multi-professional engagement in CBTp, collaborating and
engaging with clinical colleagues to share best practice and deliver ambitious
programmes of quality improvement.
- Maintain credibility with
all key players within the CBTp network community, fostering a culture of
collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high-quality care. At times this
will include acting as an honest broker reconciling conflicting views and
interests.
- Understand, communicate
and support the implementation of clinical policy relating to CBTp.
- Highlight, promote and
report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their
impact on CBTp services across the region.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- As a lead specialist, to be responsible for clinical supervision for CBTp therapists across the southwest.
- As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing, and managing highly specialist CBTp interventions to clients with psychosis and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.
- Responsible for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of specialist CBTp supervision and a thriving regional CBTp network.
- The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide leadership from a CBT perspective on psychosis and bipolar.
- Responsible for providing professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other CBTp staff, trainee clinical psychologists on placement and trainees in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.
- Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the region, on CBTp understanding, interventions and evaluations.
- Responsible for developing, organising, and delivering CPD and post-qualification teaching on CBTp for staff in the southwest region.
- Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery.
- Responsible for working within the Guidelines of the BABCP and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest.
- Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the Psychotherapy Service manager.
- Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the BABCP requirements for CPD.
- Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments within CBTp.
- Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives, policies, and NICE guidelines in relation to the work
Clinical Skills:
To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.
To engage clients with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse.
To work with, and support others to work with clients with complex trauma, emotional disorders, and psychosis for whom CBTp expertise is required in order to provide appropriate assessment, testing, rehabilitation and/or maintain placement, contributing to the liaison with commissioners and funding managers to provide feedback and advice on such clients progress and ongoing needs.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources.
To be able to complete appropriate formal assessments with complex clients.
To be able to communicate complex CBT formulations and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood.
To prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports where necessary.
To have knowledge of and skill within several cognitive and behavioural models of understanding and managing distress including, for example, third-wave, radical behavioural and Beckian models
To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal.
To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all CBTp staff.
Policy and Service Development:
To be responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist CBTp services within the southwest region.
To be responsible for contributing to the planning and development of specialist CBTp services across the southwest.
To attend the Psychotherapy service meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources:
To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to CBTp, trainee CBTp and trainee clinical psychologists on placement within the region.
To be responsible for the supervision of the work of trainee CBTp.
To teach on local postgraduate courses in CBTp if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required.
To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and Development:
To conduct and supervise research and audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of CBTp.
To initiate and implement project management techniques and tools to achieve completion of evaluations, audits, research, and service developments.
To prepare and present information from audits, evaluations, and research to professional audiences within and outside the organisation.
To prepare papers for publication based on audit, evaluation, research, and development work.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with team members in the service.
Information Technology:
To be able to use a range of software packages including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and SPSS.
To be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirement of policies covering Care Programme Approach and its successor.
To ensure that electronic CPA (and its successor) and System One and other relevant computer data bases are kept up to date.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- As a lead specialist, to be responsible for clinical supervision for CBTp therapists across the southwest.
- As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing, and managing highly specialist CBTp interventions to clients with psychosis and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.
- Responsible for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of specialist CBTp supervision and a thriving regional CBTp network.
- The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide leadership from a CBT perspective on psychosis and bipolar.
- Responsible for providing professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other CBTp staff, trainee clinical psychologists on placement and trainees in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.
- Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the region, on CBTp understanding, interventions and evaluations.
- Responsible for developing, organising, and delivering CPD and post-qualification teaching on CBTp for staff in the southwest region.
- Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery.
- Responsible for working within the Guidelines of the BABCP and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest.
- Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the Psychotherapy Service manager.
- Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the BABCP requirements for CPD.
- Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments within CBTp.
- Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives, policies, and NICE guidelines in relation to the work
Clinical Skills:
To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.
To engage clients with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse.
To work with, and support others to work with clients with complex trauma, emotional disorders, and psychosis for whom CBTp expertise is required in order to provide appropriate assessment, testing, rehabilitation and/or maintain placement, contributing to the liaison with commissioners and funding managers to provide feedback and advice on such clients progress and ongoing needs.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources.
To be able to complete appropriate formal assessments with complex clients.
To be able to communicate complex CBT formulations and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood.
To prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports where necessary.
To have knowledge of and skill within several cognitive and behavioural models of understanding and managing distress including, for example, third-wave, radical behavioural and Beckian models
To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal.
To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all CBTp staff.
Policy and Service Development:
To be responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist CBTp services within the southwest region.
To be responsible for contributing to the planning and development of specialist CBTp services across the southwest.
To attend the Psychotherapy service meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources:
To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to CBTp, trainee CBTp and trainee clinical psychologists on placement within the region.
To be responsible for the supervision of the work of trainee CBTp.
To teach on local postgraduate courses in CBTp if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required.
To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and Development:
To conduct and supervise research and audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of CBTp.
To initiate and implement project management techniques and tools to achieve completion of evaluations, audits, research, and service developments.
To prepare and present information from audits, evaluations, and research to professional audiences within and outside the organisation.
To prepare papers for publication based on audit, evaluation, research, and development work.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with team members in the service.
Information Technology:
To be able to use a range of software packages including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and SPSS.
To be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirement of policies covering Care Programme Approach and its successor.
To ensure that electronic CPA (and its successor) and System One and other relevant computer data bases are kept up to date.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex situations involving a range of options to make a decision about an appropriate course of action or solution to a problem.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with service users
- Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and professionals both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for psychosis.
- Knowledge of legislation and national standards and guidelines that relate to psychosis.
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision of other CBTp staff and psychologists
Personal
Essential
- Enthusiasm for CBT for Psychosis
- Ability to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Ability to deal with patients and carers who may be distressed, angry, confrontational or violent.
- Ability to work within teams and motivate others.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods during supervision, assessments, patient interviews, case conferences.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional situations.
- Warmth, empathy & integrity.
- Ability to work autonomously & as part of a team.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Accreditation as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or specialist qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) i.e. MSc, or ENB 650 (18 month full time course), or Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate.
- Eligible for accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor in Psychotherapy with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctoral level.
- Post-graduate certificate or diploma in CBT for Psychosis.
Experience
Essential
- Currently working as a CBP with adults with psychosis
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and/or clinical supervision on CBTp.
- Experience of working within secondary care multidisciplinary services for adult clients with psychosis eg EIP, AOT, CMHT
- Experience of offering consultation and advice to staff groups supporting vulnerable clients with psychosis.
- Post-qualification experience of six years or more.
Desirable
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Ongoing links to CBTp training courses
- Clinical leadership of CBTp service
- Record of having provided CBTp training
Other
Essential
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentation in public, professional and academic settings.
- Works to professional guidelines.
- Is accountable for own professional actions and capable of interpreting broad occupational policies
Desirable
- Driving licence and car owner.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex situations involving a range of options to make a decision about an appropriate course of action or solution to a problem.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with service users
- Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and professionals both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for psychosis.
- Knowledge of legislation and national standards and guidelines that relate to psychosis.
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision of other CBTp staff and psychologists
Personal
Essential
- Enthusiasm for CBT for Psychosis
- Ability to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Ability to deal with patients and carers who may be distressed, angry, confrontational or violent.
- Ability to work within teams and motivate others.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods during supervision, assessments, patient interviews, case conferences.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional situations.
- Warmth, empathy & integrity.
- Ability to work autonomously & as part of a team.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Accreditation as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or specialist qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) i.e. MSc, or ENB 650 (18 month full time course), or Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate.
- Eligible for accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor in Psychotherapy with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctoral level.
- Post-graduate certificate or diploma in CBT for Psychosis.
Experience
Essential
- Currently working as a CBP with adults with psychosis
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and/or clinical supervision on CBTp.
- Experience of working within secondary care multidisciplinary services for adult clients with psychosis eg EIP, AOT, CMHT
- Experience of offering consultation and advice to staff groups supporting vulnerable clients with psychosis.
- Post-qualification experience of six years or more.
Desirable
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Ongoing links to CBTp training courses
- Clinical leadership of CBTp service
- Record of having provided CBTp training
Other
Essential
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentation in public, professional and academic settings.
- Works to professional guidelines.
- Is accountable for own professional actions and capable of interpreting broad occupational policies
Desirable
- Driving licence and car owner.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
