Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Therapist to work within our clinical leadership team. Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney is an NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) service providing high volume, evidence-based psychosocial treatments for people aged 16 upwards with common mental health problems of anxiety and low mood.
We are a large and expanding service. This year we will offer a range of psychological, employment and social interventions to over 28,000 people.The lead therapists play a key role in ensuring that the clinical interventions are delivered in line with national guidance, in order to help us meet the Key Performance Indicators of an NHS Talking Therapies service, with particular focus on Access, Wait Times and Recovery. We offer a high standard of supervisory support and training for our staff in order to achieve this.
We have worked from home during the pandemic, but we are gradually moving back to face to face team working whilst retaining some of the positives of home working where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Therapists work as part of a clinical and operational Senior Leadership Team in a service which is constantly developing. Each Lead Therapist has clinical oversight of specific aspects of the service, ensuring we continue to deliver high quality, evidence based interventions and that our clinical staff remain highly skilled and well supported. The Lead Therapists offer Clinical Supervision and Supervision of Supervision to our Senior PWPs and CBT / Counselling supervisors, to ensure the supervision offered to our clinicians is of a high quality. The role also includes liaison and case discussions with colleagues in other Trust teams.
The successful candidate will be an accredited therapist (BABCP, BACP, UKCP) with extensive experience of working as a High Intensity Therapist / Counsellor and delivering supervision to other NHS Talking Therapies practitioners.
The post holder will be expected to work from team bases some of the time, and/or to travel within Norfolk as required.
About us
This role attracts the usual benefits of working for the NHS in terms of Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
The Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together underpin our recruitment and staff culture.
Mental health services are transforming in line with the Long Term Plan, with a focus on integration and collaboration with system partners.
We offer strong clinical leadership, and the development of our staff is very important to us. We want our staff to recommend Wellbeing as a great service to work for, and we want those using it to have a positive experience. You can help us do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment.
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
For more details, please see the attached job description and person specification.
For an informal discussion on the role, please contact Karen Lince, Deputy Clinical Lead karen.lince@nsft.nhs.uk
Closing date for applications is Friday 22nd September
Interviews will be on 9th & 10th October via Microsoft Teams
Date posted
30 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£50,952 to £57,349 a year gross per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
246-WBN5606515
Job locations
Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Road
Norwich
NR6 5BE
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Road
Norwich
NR6 5BE
Employer's website
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