Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

If you are a highly skilled and experienced Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience, then we want to hear from you. The Trust has an amazing opening for someone who is seeking the challenge of working within a highly skilled and experienced team which is continually developing its practice. We can offer excellent inhouse supervision and CPD, providing a good opportunity for skills development and enhancement.

The Role

Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but aren't limited to): Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations. Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research.

The Candidate

To succeed in this role you will have: Extensive post-qualification experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) for adults and older adults with a range of mental health problems where there is a strong evidence base for CBT, for example, depression, panic disorder,, PTSD, cPTSD and OCD.

Main duties of the job

To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of the Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy Service and within psychological therapy and psychology and integrated community services and care pathways.

To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients with complex problems in line with NICE guidelines. To work working autonomously within professional guidelines, Trust policies, procedures, and service priorities.

To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload under clinical and case management supervision. To offer consultation and guidance to other mental health professionals, other treatment pathways and community colleagues. To contribute to the ongoing development of CBT practice considering advances in treatment, theory, and research. To maintain specialist CBT knowledge and skills and BABCP accreditation.

The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. To work remotely as necessary and to work from a base, in patients homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics across LPT sites, adhering to all the Trust's standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

10 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

002682

Job locations

Gwendolen House

Gwendolen Road

Leicester

LE5 4QF

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job description

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

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Qualifications

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Experience

Essential

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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.