Job summary
We are seeking an exceptional candidate with a passion for mental and physical healthcare to work within the Blackpool Healthier Minds IAPT service.
Nationally IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) services are expected to attract a substantial increase in patient referrals and, in particular, from Long Term Conditions (LTC) cohorts. This role is vital to ensure that physical healthcare and mental health care is integrated and aligned.
Therefore, we are looking for a flexible and highly motivated qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with a special interest, knowledge, and experience of working with people with long term physical health conditions to join the Blackpool Healthier Minds team. This role will involve leading the team with regards to further developments associated with the implementation of Long-Term Condition integrated working and providing Clinical and Case Management supervision to CBT therapists within the team.
The successful candidate will form part of the Blackpool Healthier Minds leadership team. They will have completed either an IAPT High Intensity CBT course or a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT and be accredited with the BABCP. The successful candidate(s) will also have completed an NHSE approved IAPT LTC (Long Term Condition) training.
Main duties of the job
We require a flexible and highly motivated qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to undertake the role of Long Term Conditions Lead withBlackpool Healthier Minds IAPT Service. The post holder will provide High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients who have a range of anxiety and depression related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post holder will specifically deliver CBT to people referred to the service with long term physical health conditions and provide supervision to other staff including those trained to deliver CBT to people with long term physical health conditions. They will also take the lead in developing Long Term Condition Pathways with physical health services.
The Blackpool Healthier Minds team includes CBT therapists, Counsellors and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, providing psychological assessment and brief therapies to people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. We also offer EMDR, "Stress Control" courses, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy courses as well as a range of webinars to support health and wellbeing.
The successful candidate will also be required to work a proportion of their working hours after before 9am and/or after 5pm in order to improve access to the service.
The post holder will work with clients who have a range of complex anxiety and depression related problems as well as a LTC. The post holder should be committed to promoting equal opportunities.
About us
As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Blackpool Healthier Mindsoperates from anumberof community baseswithin the Blackpool area.We offer IAPT interventions and psychological therapies acrossStep 2 and 3 and have developed pathways with physical health services in line with the National IAPT Long Term Conditions programme, in order to expand and increase the offer of psychological therapies to the Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde population.We receive self-referrals and referrals from health care professionals for the Long-Term Conditions arm of the service.
- 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.
- Undertake risk assessments with clients and respond to these in line with service policies and procedures.
- 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 detailed 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.
- To participate in the planning and facilitation of groups as and when required by the service.
- 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
- Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to 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.
- Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service.
- Provide supervision to high intensity CBT therapists within the team in accordance with BABCP guidelines and the Trusts supervision policy.
- Specifically, provide clinical supervision to high intensity therapists working with clients who have long term physical health conditions.
- Contribute to the training and development of Blackpool Healthier Minds staff in working with clients with long term physical health conditions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Blackpool Healthier Mindsoperates from anumberof community baseswithin the Blackpool area.We offer IAPT interventions and psychological therapies acrossStep 2 and 3 and have developed pathways with physical health services in line with the National IAPT Long Term Conditions programme, in order to expand and increase the offer of psychological therapies to the Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde population.We receive self-referrals and referrals from health care professionals for the Long-Term Conditions arm of the service.
- 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.
- Undertake risk assessments with clients and respond to these in line with service policies and procedures.
- 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 detailed 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.
- To participate in the planning and facilitation of groups as and when required by the service.
- 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
- Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to 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.
- Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service.
- Provide supervision to high intensity CBT therapists within the team in accordance with BABCP guidelines and the Trusts supervision policy.
- Specifically, provide clinical supervision to high intensity therapists working with clients who have long term physical health conditions.
- Contribute to the training and development of Blackpool Healthier Minds staff in working with clients with long term physical health conditions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification from High Intensity IAPT OR Post Graduate Diploma in CBT from a BABCP recognised and accredited course.
- CBT in the context of Long Term Persistent and Distressing Health Conditions
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Hold full BABCP accreditation
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner within an IAPT service
- Experience of working with long term physical health conditions.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to IAPT high intensity therapists.
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
- Experience with routine outcome Monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
- Experience in establishing diagnosis/psychological formulation
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting
- Completed clinical audits within a service
Skills / Attributes
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- 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
- Computer literate
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Knowledge of child protection issues
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/ benefits & employment systems
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication and able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- 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
- Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification from High Intensity IAPT OR Post Graduate Diploma in CBT from a BABCP recognised and accredited course.
- CBT in the context of Long Term Persistent and Distressing Health Conditions
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Hold full BABCP accreditation
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner within an IAPT service
- Experience of working with long term physical health conditions.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to IAPT high intensity therapists.
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
- Experience with routine outcome Monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
- Experience in establishing diagnosis/psychological formulation
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting
- Completed clinical audits within a service
Skills / Attributes
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- 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
- Computer literate
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Knowledge of child protection issues
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/ benefits & employment systems
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication and able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- 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
- Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation.
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).
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.
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).
