Job summary
Outstanding ... Our journey continues
Would you like the opportunity to use your CBT Therapist and Leadership skills with an Outstanding Trust ... one of only two Specialist Mental Health Trusts in England rated as Outstanding by the CQC?
We are seeking a Band 8A Senior Therapist to take up this much valued therapy leadership post supporting the warm and welcoming North Staffordshire Community CAMHS Team based at Dragon Square in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. A mix of remote and office- based working is available.
Main duties of the job
This is a new and innovative role bringing with it a fantastic opportunity to be part of a developing, multi-disciplinary adult community mental health service and providing clinical leadership to therapists and multi-disciplinary staff and nurturing the psychological mindedness of the team.
The post includes working alongside a range of psychological professionals including Psychologists, CBT Therapists and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners across the service to implement exciting new developments in accordance with the Community Transformation Programme within a service that has a strong culture of positive change for the improvement of service-users' experience. We are keen to support you in developing your full potential and provide the opportunity to receive excellent supervision and CPD and professional leadership support. For the right candidate we are willing to offer support to develop your skills clinically, or as a leader.
You will be working a varied case load, working with service users and their families with difficulties ranging across, for example, complex trauma, complex emotional and relational needs, depression, psychosis and challenging behaviour, in line with the post holders experience and competencies. You will have opportunities to provide individual and group psychological intervention.
About us
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust was established in 1994 and provides mental health and learning disability care to people predominantly living in the city of Stoke-on-Trent and in North Staffordshire. The Trust is one of the main providers of mental health, social care and learning disability services in the West Midlands.
We currently work from both hospital and community-based premises, operating from approximately 30 sites to approximately 464,000 people of all ages and diverse backgrounds in Stoke-on-Trent and across North Staffordshire. Our main site is Harplands Hospital, which opened in 2001 and provides the setting for most of our inpatient units.
We provide services to people with a wide range of mental health and learning disability needs. Sometimes our service users need to spend time in hospital, but much more often we are able to provide care in community settings and in people's own homes.
We also provide specialist mental health services such as child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), substance misuse services and psychological therapies, plus a range of clinical and non-clinical services to support University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicates effectively with all professionals involved in the clients care including all members of the multi-disciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc., to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers.
Analyses highly complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the clients care.
Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicates effectively with all professionals involved in the clients care including all members of the multi-disciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc., to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers.
Analyses highly complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the clients care.
Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional training which supports the ability to provide high intensity clinical interventions, particularly CBT e.g. Clinical Psychology training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with young people and their families, across the presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health service and how it links to governmental objectives
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional training which supports the ability to provide high intensity clinical interventions, particularly CBT e.g. Clinical Psychology training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with young people and their families, across the presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health service and how it links to governmental objectives
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
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).
