Job summary
Base: One of two main hubs in the City of Liverpool (Fazakerley or City Centre)
We want to recruit enthusiastic, motivated and flexible qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practitioners to join our NHS Talking Therapies service. Applicants need to be accredited with the BABCP, or able to achieve accreditation within a year of their employment start date.
This is an exciting time to join Talking Therapies Liverpool; we are growing our service so that we are able to reach more people across the City and engage them in therapeutic support.
We are also moving to integrate a Long Term Health Conditions branch into the service, for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Applications from those with an interest in Long Term Conditions, and who have experience of working with clients with a range of mental health problems within this population, are particularly welcomed and further training may be provided.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
The post holder will undertaking IAPT/Talking Therapies approved high intensity treatment with service users and work within an IAPT/Talking Therapies approved supervision framework.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service.
Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.
Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.
Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals/ individuals/ groups/ committees across Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service.
Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.
Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.
Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals/ individuals/ groups/ committees across Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- For CBT posts: Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation.
- For Counselling posts: Diploma in Counselling from a recognised course which meets the requirements for BACP Accreditation AND having completed the IAPT/Talking Therapies Counselling for Depression (CfD) course (or be willing to undertake an IAPT/Talking Therapies accredited course upon commencing in the service in CfD / IPT / DiT).
- For IPT / DIT / EMDR posts: Completed qualification in an IAPT/Talking Therapies recognised course which meets the requirements for relevant Accreditation.
- Holds Accreditation by the appropriate body OR be able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year.
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrates the competences as required.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/ benefits & employment systems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
- Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
- Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops.
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007).
- Computer literate.
- 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
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- For CBT posts: Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation.
- For Counselling posts: Diploma in Counselling from a recognised course which meets the requirements for BACP Accreditation AND having completed the IAPT/Talking Therapies Counselling for Depression (CfD) course (or be willing to undertake an IAPT/Talking Therapies accredited course upon commencing in the service in CfD / IPT / DiT).
- For IPT / DIT / EMDR posts: Completed qualification in an IAPT/Talking Therapies recognised course which meets the requirements for relevant Accreditation.
- Holds Accreditation by the appropriate body OR be able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year.
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrates the competences as required.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/ benefits & employment systems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
- Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
- Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops.
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007).
- Computer literate.
- 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
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system.
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).
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).
