Job summary
CFHD are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced
Cognitive Behaviour Therapist to join us as an 8a Senior Cognitive Behaviour
Therapist.
This role offers strong evidence-based CBT into North
Devons multi-disciplinary service as well as developing and sustaining the CBT
provision across the county, providing professional leadership for our growing
group of CBT Practitioners. The role
will be clinically based in North Devon (approximately 2 days per week face on
site required) with the opportunity for some flexibility of base within the remainder
of the role.
Devon has the perfect work life balance. You will spend your
working hours with friendly and supportive colleagues as part of our
innovative, integrated children's service then spend your leisure time in this
inspiring part of the country with North Devon specifically being home to a
World Surfing Reserve, the renowned UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and beautiful
Exmoor!
We would love to hear from experienced CBT colleagues who
can bring advanced level clinical thinking and formulation, strengths in
supervision and consultation and be a compassionate leader within the service
during an exciting time of development.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Cognitive
Behaviour Therapist you will work closely with the Leads for Psychological
Professions to support and sustain the CBT Profession within CFHD as well as
provide lead contributions to service developments across the service.
You will bring
advanced clinical skills to offer complex assessment, formulation, intervention
and consultation. You will bring strong clinical supervision skills and
leadership capabilities that enable you to support colleagues as well as lead
strategic development work. You will have proven experience working positively
with inter-agency colleagues. You will have a have a vision for high quality clinical services and be
able to enhance the skills and practice of those around you.
There will be CPD
opportunities specific to your pathway and to further progress your leadership
capabilities.
You will work
closely with, and be supported by the Leads for Psychological Professions as
well as your peer Professional Leads and Senior Clinical colleagues.
There is an
enthusiastic group of CBT Practitioners across the county who will value the
developments and cohesion that a professional lead will bring. We have a strong
relationship with the local CYP IAPT Training course for CBT and support
Trainee roles and Supervisor training across the county.
We encourage
interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both
personal and professional.
About us
Successful
applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here
Children and Family Health Devon
(CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve
health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and
treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we
deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services,
based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service
users and communities.
CFHD works closely with our local
universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we
support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our
own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our children
and young people say
We
would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be
understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us
feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and
experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.
When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that
is informal and without pressure.
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant,
partnership that benefits the communities we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full
Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person
Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting
information from the role requirements or person specification.
In the Managing Mood, Emotions and Relationships Pathway,
CBT Practitioners work within a strong multi-disciplinary team, providing
assessments and therapy to children with complex and enduring mental health
concerns such as depression, anxiety-based disorders and Trauma. The
multi-disciplinary teams are diverse including; Systemic Psychotherapists,
Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Child &
Adolescent Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists and
Mental Health Practitioners from a range of backgrounds including Nursing,
Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Creative Therapies. This offers the
opportunity for rich and nourishing shared clinical thinking and support
You will be an accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist with
notable post-qualifying experience, passion and strengths for working with children,
young people and their families. You will have strong leadership skills,
bringing a compassionate framework to your work.
In post, you would work with children, young people and
families to understand their experiences and presenting concerns in order to
provide an appropriate evidence-based intervention. You would provide
consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues and work closely with
inter-agency partners as required.
You would provide supervision to Cognitive Behaviour
Therapists and other colleagues as appropriate as well as further support the
development of others through training. There will also be the opportunity to
engage with, and lead, areas of service development and research as well as
wider activities to support developing leadership skills.
You will be committed to service user participation and
collaborative working with children, young people, parents, carers and
families. You will have a good understanding of safeguarding across the
lifespan.
You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to
bring to a multi-disciplinary team. You will have advanced skills and knowledge
to support the development of others through supervision, consultation and
training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full
Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person
Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting
information from the role requirements or person specification.
In the Managing Mood, Emotions and Relationships Pathway,
CBT Practitioners work within a strong multi-disciplinary team, providing
assessments and therapy to children with complex and enduring mental health
concerns such as depression, anxiety-based disorders and Trauma. The
multi-disciplinary teams are diverse including; Systemic Psychotherapists,
Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Child &
Adolescent Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists and
Mental Health Practitioners from a range of backgrounds including Nursing,
Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Creative Therapies. This offers the
opportunity for rich and nourishing shared clinical thinking and support
You will be an accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist with
notable post-qualifying experience, passion and strengths for working with children,
young people and their families. You will have strong leadership skills,
bringing a compassionate framework to your work.
In post, you would work with children, young people and
families to understand their experiences and presenting concerns in order to
provide an appropriate evidence-based intervention. You would provide
consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues and work closely with
inter-agency partners as required.
You would provide supervision to Cognitive Behaviour
Therapists and other colleagues as appropriate as well as further support the
development of others through training. There will also be the opportunity to
engage with, and lead, areas of service development and research as well as
wider activities to support developing leadership skills.
You will be committed to service user participation and
collaborative working with children, young people, parents, carers and
families. You will have a good understanding of safeguarding across the
lifespan.
You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to
bring to a multi-disciplinary team. You will have advanced skills and knowledge
to support the development of others through supervision, consultation and
training.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
- Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with highly complex mental health problems; including risk assessments
- Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy e.g. recognised qualification as a high intensity IAPT Therapist
- Fully accredited member of the BABCP
- Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people Evidence of continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy
- Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision. Formal training and experience in the supervision of other CBT therapists
Desirable
- Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy or equivalent
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to child and adolescent mental health.
- High level knowledge of mental health presentations in children and adolescents and the theory and practice of short term and long term, evidence-based, clinical interventions.
- Knowledge of child development
- Highly developed ability to integrate highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others including service users and professionals
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
- Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with highly complex mental health problems; including risk assessments
- Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy e.g. recognised qualification as a high intensity IAPT Therapist
- Fully accredited member of the BABCP
- Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people Evidence of continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy
- Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision. Formal training and experience in the supervision of other CBT therapists
Desirable
- Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy or equivalent
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to child and adolescent mental health.
- High level knowledge of mental health presentations in children and adolescents and the theory and practice of short term and long term, evidence-based, clinical interventions.
- Knowledge of child development
- Highly developed ability to integrate highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others including service users and professionals
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.
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.
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
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Integrated Childrens Services
Fishleigh Road
Roundswell Business Park
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 3UD
Employer's website
https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
