High Intensity Therapist/CBT Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

1) CLINICAL

1. To deliver NICE recommended, formulation driven specialist psychological interventions for depression and anxiety disorders, adapting interventions for the specific needs and clinical setting, working with individual clients, groups and large workshops.
2. Assess and integrate issues surrounding social support, voluntary work and employment into therapy.
3. To provide a specialist assessment and clinical formulation for clients with complex mental health needs, including personality disorders, addiction and trauma.
4. To provide psychological reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users.
5. To select and deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcomes and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical models.
6. To collect and enter clinical outcome data on a sessional basis; select and interpret outcome measures to inform treatment planning
7. To work as an autonomous professional within BPS/BABCP/HCPC guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
8. To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients and act as care coordinator as required.
9. To travel to community settings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
10. To contribute to the effective working of the team and to a psychologically informed framework for the service area, taking on specific roles or duties as agreed.
11. To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with clients, carers, colleagues and other professionals taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
12. To keep clear, accurate and up to date records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
13. To confidently assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans
14. To confidently advise other members of the service on the psychological care of clients.
15. To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as distressed clients or abusive behaviour and to support others involved in such situations.
16. To provide services at various locations in the borough of Croydon.
17. To provide information and signposting for patients who do not meet the services eligibility criteria.
18. To refer people with more severe common mental health problems to the secondary care psychological therapies service
19. Work closely with other members of the IAPT team to ensure that patients referred on to the IAPT service have a clear referral pathway.
20. Maintain a clinical caseload in line with activity targets agreed with line manager.

2) TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

1. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist/psychotherapist according to BABCP/BPS/HCPC and Trust guidelines. This must include live supervision of your work (through recordings or observation).
2. To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within Croydon IAPT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, CBT, IAPT and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
3. To provide specialist training to other professions as appropriate.
4. To plan and undertake teaching and training of pre and post- qualification psychologists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.
5. May involve providing professional managerial, and clinical supervision to HI CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, trainees, assistant psychologists and other junior staff members for all aspects of their work. This must include live supervision of therapists work.

3) TEAM MEMBER

1. To make a full contribution to the running of Croydon Talking Therapies as a member of a team and the whole service.
2. To identify any aspects of the service which could be improved and contribute to the service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
3. To contribute to team and whole service meetings.
4. To support, encourage and inspire other team members.

4) RESEARCH and SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

1. Assist in the development and maintenance of a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures as a way of improving clinical practice. Encourage the critical evaluation of practice, and undertake research
2. Use theory and literature to support evidence-based practice in clinical work, supervision, teaching and consultations
3. Communicate and disseminate research and service evaluation information so that clinical practice is appropriately informed
4. To contribute to the development of services through initiating, undertaking and supervising service evaluation and audit.
5. To disseminate research

5) PROFESSIONAL

1. Work as an autonomous professional and maintain standards of practice adhering to HPC or BABCP guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
2. To ensure Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS/BABCP/UKCP and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.
3. To maintain HCPC registration and BABCP accreditation.
4. Be aware of advances in CBT, other psychological therapies and the IAPT programme.
5. Work in accordance with the principles of CBT and within the parameters of good practice, in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Clinical Governance Framework.

6) GENERAL

1. To participate in business and professional meetings within the IAPT service and PMIC CAG.
2. To travel to the GP practices, service meetings and other meetings as appropriate.
3. To regularly work one evening and do Saturday work (on occasion) as required
4. Any private work must be agreed in advance in writing with the SLAM IAPT Service Director and the line manager. Private psychological therapy work or advice must always be clearly separate from IAPT or NHS work and not undertaken on NHS premises or premises used by IAPT. It cannot be undertaken with any resident of the borough of Croydon, with any current client of the service, or with a client within two years of the worker having seen that client in the service. Private services cannot be advertised through work locations. The post holder will not enter into personal relationships with clients they have met through IAPT or NHS work when outside of their IAPT or NHS setting.
5. To travel between the surgeries and bases as and when appropriate. The post holder is required to hot desk in busy open plan offices.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology with substantial CBT experience (eligible for HCPC registration). Or CBT Therapist / CBT Therapist in training, from an IAPT High Intensity CBT course and with, or close to, BABCP accreditation (to be accredited within 12 months).
• Eligibility for HCPC registration. Or High intensity (HI) therapist, having completed an IAPT CBT course, with or close to BABCP accreditation. The postholder will be expected to become accredited within 12 months. The post is offered conditional on achieving this accreditation, or the contract will be terminated. The post will be at Band 6 in this period until provisional accreditation is achieved.

Desirable

• Relevant experience in Primary Care treating anxiety and depression.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of the psychological assessment and treatment of adult clients presenting with common mental health problems in an IAPT or specialist service, using CBT
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs
• Experience of meeting activity and outcome targets in a psychological service
• Experience of collecting and recording generic and disorder specific outcome measures to monitor patient progress
• Experience of contributing to the running or development of a service, for example through audit or leading a project or service area

Desirable

• Experience in working in another modality - group CBT, IPT, BCT, LTC.
• Experience of delivering CBT in a specialist CBT service e.g. CADAT .
• Experience of giving clinical supervision.
• Experience of formal psychological treatment of psychiatric disorders.
• Experience of formal psychological assessment and treatment of adult clients with serious mental illness in psychiatric settings with a range of psychological needs.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the application of psychological assessments and interventions with complex presentations.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to clients, families and colleagues and referrers.
• Consultation skills to work with the multiprofessional team or other professional groups within own service.
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bethlem Royal Hospital

Monks Orchard Rd

Beckenham

BR3 3BX

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)