Job summary
NHS Enfield Talking Therapies (previously Lets Talk IAPT Enfield) is a well established service with CBT therapists, Psychological wellbeing practitioners, counsellors, trainees and administrators, offering psychological interventions for individuals over 16 years who have an Enfield GP. We are a large team with a strong track record of clinical excellence, staff retention and development and support for staff wellbeing. This is your opportunity to join our service in a senior role.
Applicants will be experienced CBT therapists who have worked in NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) and in a socially deprived and multi-cultural setting. You will also have experience of providing formal supervision and leading or participating in an area of service development.
We are committed to helping you plan and continue to develop and progress your career, and we offer a wide range of CPD and training opportunities. This post will report to the Deputy Clinical Lead and Clinical Lead, who will offer clinical supervision and operational management support.
Postholders will be expected to carry a small clinical caseload.
Working patterns: We operate a hybrid service model with staff combining remote working and working on site at our team bases. This post holder will also be expected to follow this pattern. The post holder will be expected to also support senior clinician cover for out of hours clinics offered by the service, currently upto 8.00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Main duties of the job
1. To work as part of the Senior Management Team lead by the Clinical Lead, ensuring that the service continues to deliver excellent clinical services across the borough.2. To provide line management and clinical supervision to staff.3. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and othersinvolved in the client's care.4. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's emotional and mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.5. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, groups families and carers , adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.6. To evaluate and make 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.
About us
BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Barnet, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which delivers MH care across some of the prisons and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We have also been appointed as the lead provider of forensic mental health services across North London managing the devolved New Models of care budget of £170m from 2018/19. We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed view of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed view of the role.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Core mental health professional training in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, Psychotherapy or equivalent, together with post degree diploma level training in CBT
- Completion of a recognised High Intensity supervision course provided by an IAPT approved Higher Education provider (e.g. Royal Holloway)
- BABCP Accreditation as a CBT Therapist
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent
- Completed training in alternative IAPT therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, or BCT
- Post graduate training in Long Term Conditions/ Health psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in providing CBT assessments and treatments across a range of severities and presentations.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Substantial experience of providing formal supervision to staff
- Experience of line management, case management and clinical supervision of qualified therapists and therapists in training.
Desirable
- Experience of using alternative IAPT therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, or BCT
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist, HI or CBT therapist within secondary care or specialist psychological services.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of using IAPT EPR systems (IAPTUS).
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in developing knowledge and skills in CBT post qualification.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- An ability to formulate and provide IAPT compliant treatment for clients with moderate-severe mental health difficulties and those with complex presentations.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in primary care and step2/step 3.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT and IAPT recommended treatment models.
- Knowledge of IAPT EPR systems (PCMIS or IAPTUS)
- Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy in relation to the client group and mental health
- Post degree level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis.
Other
Essential
- Knowledge of key aspects of clinical governance as relating to IAPT and NHS practice more generally.
Desirable
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Core mental health professional training in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, Psychotherapy or equivalent, together with post degree diploma level training in CBT
- Completion of a recognised High Intensity supervision course provided by an IAPT approved Higher Education provider (e.g. Royal Holloway)
- BABCP Accreditation as a CBT Therapist
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent
- Completed training in alternative IAPT therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, or BCT
- Post graduate training in Long Term Conditions/ Health psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in providing CBT assessments and treatments across a range of severities and presentations.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Substantial experience of providing formal supervision to staff
- Experience of line management, case management and clinical supervision of qualified therapists and therapists in training.
Desirable
- Experience of using alternative IAPT therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, or BCT
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist, HI or CBT therapist within secondary care or specialist psychological services.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of using IAPT EPR systems (IAPTUS).
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in developing knowledge and skills in CBT post qualification.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- An ability to formulate and provide IAPT compliant treatment for clients with moderate-severe mental health difficulties and those with complex presentations.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in primary care and step2/step 3.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT and IAPT recommended treatment models.
- Knowledge of IAPT EPR systems (PCMIS or IAPTUS)
- Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy in relation to the client group and mental health
- Post degree level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis.
Other
Essential
- Knowledge of key aspects of clinical governance as relating to IAPT and NHS practice more generally.
Desirable
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
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).
