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Job summary

Main area
Adult mental health
Grade
7
Contract
1 year (Fixed term one year maternity cover)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
363-NEW7242543
Employer
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Newham Specialist Psychotherapy service
Town
London
Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 per annum Inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/06/2025 23:59
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Clinical / Counselling Psychologist / CBT therapist

7

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job overview

Newham Specialist Psychotherapies service (SPS) is a vibrant psychotherapies service in the heart of East London. This post is within the Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) team. The candidate will join professional colleagues committed and dedicated to delivering a wide range of therapies.
The post holder will work autonomously delivering specialist group and individual CBT interventions to service users with complex needs. There will be opportunities to develop indirect work, supervision and teaching skills.
The post holder will work both in the CBT team Secondary Care Psychological Services (SPS) and into other community teams and the third sector. There are opportunities to develop areas of interest such as group interventions for trauma, working with OCD presentations and integrating third wave CBT approaches.

Main duties of the job

To hold a caseload of both individual and group work, to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT), to provide supervision where appropriate, to deliver consultation and training and to liaise where necessary with the wider network of care across the borough in both primary and secondary care. To conduct assessments for a wide range of therapies in the service.  To attend meetings in the service and interface with systems and teams across the borough. To maintain high standards of record keeping and governance. To manage risk and complexity and to communicate effectively. 

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

Main Duties and Responsibilities (DELETE IF NOT APPLICABLE)

Patient Care
  • Provide and receive highly complex information (related to mental health and CBT) to individual, groups, and large groups of service users, relatives, carers, members of the public and professionals.

 

  • Develop and maintain close professional therapeutic relationships with Service Users using advanced psychotherapy skills to bring about lasting psychological change.

 

  • Have specialist theoretical and practical clinical knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Have some experience of indirect work and teaching: to build on this to begin supervising less experienced staff and to provide teaching and consultation.

 

  • To gather a range of facts and contexts, relevant to the Service User’s clinical care. To analysis and weigh the relative importance of the factors to form an understanding of the Service User’s difficulties and relate these to the range of psychological and other treatment options available. To form a judgement between the relative utilities of the treatment options and the Service User’s preferences. (b) In an interactive dialogue communicate the options to the Service User updating the treatment frame in response to additional information provided by the Service User during the course of this dialogue.

 

  • To collate and analyse clinical data from your own Service Users and those under the care of your supervisees, within the overall framework of the required data output of the service, to analyse this data with the intention of: (a) identifying and minimising risk, (b) optimising clinical effectiveness, (c) optimising service efficiency. To then, in conjunction with your Clinical Supervisor, devise a plan that addresses these components within the immediate context of where you deliver your service, the skills and aptitudes of your trainees and the broader operational framework of the service and have the skill to implement the agreed plan in an iterative manner.

 

  • Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the Service by identifying and acting on areas of concern and supporting senior clinicians who are taking the lead in designated areas of responsibility.

 

Clinical

·       As appropriate teaching, training and supervising less experienced staff and members of other disciplines, on psychological theory and practice as required.

 

·       Co-ordinate the activities of yourself and your supervisee(s) to balance the conflicting: needs of Service Users, demands of the different areas of service provision, your own continuing professional development, and service provision. This will involve sudden changes in plans to respond to clinical emergencies on a frequent but not regular basis.

·       Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the service.

 

  • Assess Service Users, prepare a psychotherapy care plan and deliver specialist therapy to individuals and to groups of service users. Support other clinicians in the delivery of individual and group CBT.

 

  • Hold your own caseload and respond to Service User crises as appropriate.

 

Administration
  • Using computer data entry systems, record clinical input and outcome data. Collate this information and communicate it to the responsible clinician/service head.

 

  • Contribute to the monitoring, review and audit of the work in the service.

Management
  • As appropriate to stage of development to supervise assistants, trainees and staff form other disciplines in both SPS and the PCN’s.

Human Resources
  • As appropriate providing specialist teaching and training in CBT.

Performance and Quality
  • To make an active contribution to pursue the aims, objectives and overall strategy of the service thereby contributing to the development of clinical services provided within the Psychological therapies service.

Financial and Physical Resources

·       Observe personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in course of work.

  • Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances arising from therapeutic contact with Service Users (including relatives and carers) requiring emotional engagement with the material discussed, emotional self-regulation by the therapist and the delivery of a therapeutic response within professional boundaries. To provide emotional support as appropriate to professional colleagues

 

ATTRIBUTES

CRITERIA

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DESIRABLE

SELECTON METHOD (S/I/T)

Education/

Qualification/

Training
  • Clinical /Counselling Psychologist: Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.OR Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.

 

  • Or a CBT Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma) or similar for accreditation with BABCP.

 

  • Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist. 

 

  • Formal qualification in CBT.

 

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Experience
  • Experience of working with patients from moderate to complex mental health conditions.

 

  • Any experience providing teaching, training or supervision in CBT

 

  • Experience of delivering CBT to adults in a secondary care setting.

 

  • Experience delivering therapy through an interpreter.

 

  • Experience providing group treatments.

 

  • Experience working within a diverse cultural setting.

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Knowledge and Skills
  • Knowledge of generic and specialist psychological assessments and range of therapeutic interventions required for people with mental health problems.

 

  • Knowledge pertinent to effective risk assessment and management.

 

  • Knowledge of CBT including the standard CBT treatment models for common mental disorders, and treatment outcomes and methods.

 

·       Knowledge of adapting standard models using individualised formulations.

 

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Other
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to a wide range of audiences.

 

  • Ability to engage patients with different language and cultural needs.

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S: Shortlisting    I: Interview        T: Test

Person specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential criteria
  • • Clinical /Counselling Psychologist: Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.OR Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Or a CBT Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma) or similar for accreditation with BABCP.
  • • Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP
Desirable criteria
  • Formal qualification in CBT.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of working with patients from moderate to complex mental health conditions.
  • • Any experience providing teaching, training or supervision in CBT
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of delivering CBT to adults in a secondary care setting.
  • • Experience delivering therapy through an interpreter.
  • • Experience providing group treatments.
  • • Experience working within a diverse cultural setting.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Knowledge of generic and specialist psychological assessments and range of therapeutic interventions required for people with mental health problems.
  • • Knowledge pertinent to effective risk assessment and management.
  • • Knowledge of CBT including the standard CBT treatment models for common mental disorders, and treatment outcomes and methods.
  • • Knowledge of adapting standard models using individualised formulations

Other

Essential criteria
  • • Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to a wide range of audiences.
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to engage patients with different language and cultural needs.
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Ruth Chester
Job title
Clinical Psychologist - CBT team lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 221 6000

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