Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

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 the Specialist CBT Service and providing representation to a designated Neighbourhood Mental Health Team 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.

Provide expert CBT education, training, co-working and clinical supervision to clinical staff working within or external to the Trust.

The Candidate:

To succeed in this role you will have (See attached Person spec for complete experience list):

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 participate fully in multi professional team meetings to support professionals and offer highly specialist CBT clinical consultation and supervision on service users psychological care to multi-disciplinary colleagues. To work across all psychotherapy and psychological services to co- design, plan and implement a CBT informed transdiagnostic, process orientated, broad based psychological treatment offers across planned treatment and recovery.

To support the delivery of CBT formulation and CBT interventions through supervision, training and co-working across planned treatment and recovery services. To provide teaching, consultation, training utilising specialist clinical knowledge to colleagues working across the integrated healthcare system including to colleagues trained to a doctoral level.

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

14 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

002671

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

Essential

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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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.