Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (1 of days worked must be Wednesday)
- Job ref
- 363-CH6068208
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City & Hackney Specialist Psychotherapy Service
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum pro rata Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/05/2024
Employer heading
Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
Band 8a
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join our friendly and forward thinking cognitive behavioural psychotherapies team.
We are seeking to appoint a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within the City & Hackney Specialist Psychotherapy Service. This service is part of the East London NHS Foundation Trust offering assessment and psychological therapy to service users with complex, chronic and often comorbid presentations, including depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, complex trauma and Personality Disorder. A number of treatment modalities are offered within the service including cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic, individual, group, systemic and family therapies, as well as more intensive programmes for individuals with Personality Disorder that are delivered according to a Mentalisation-Based Treatment model.
The role will primarily involve the provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and CBT treatment, and the provision of clinical supervision within the secondary care specialist psychotherapy service.
Main duties of the job
- The delivery of high quality, time limited, specialist Cognitive Behavioural treatment interventions for service users in both individual and group formats.
- Providing clinical co-working with other health professionals.
- Proactively developing robust professional relationships with a range of professional groups within local statutory and non-statutory services.
- Actively participating in the further development of the service, including but not exclusively, training, service user involvement, clinical governance, Quality Improvement.
- The provision of generic mental health and specialist CBT assessments to identify all groups of adult mental disorders and suitability for psychotherapy as required.
- The provision of assessment that identifies if the service user would benefit from alternative mental health treatments (including medication and other psychological treatments), weighing up the relative advantages and advising the service user accordingly.
- Where CBT is not an indicated treatment, liaising as appropriate with other professional groups to effectively communicate that assessment and facilitate transfer of care to an appropriate professional/team.
- Conducting risk assessments, preparing risk management plans and initiating appropriate action where indicated.
- Eliciting, recording, collating and communicating outcome data of their clinical activity and that of their supervisees to Modality, Clinical and Operational Leads.
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
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Core professional training in any mental health field (e.g. nursing, psychology, social work, OT etc.) or equivalent. Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or registered by a body overseen or accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA)
- Recognised Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy training and accredited with BABCP as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist for at least 2 years
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in teaching and lecturing
- Formal training in CBT supervision
- Training in EMDR and/or Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience within the NHS or equivalent, working with a wide range of psychological problems, including severe, complex and comorbid mental health problems
- At least 2 years (or part-time equivalent) of post-CBT qualification experience working with a wide range of psychological problems, ranging from mild to complex conditions.
- Experience of working within a diverse cultural setting.
- Substantial experience of having delivering trauma focused CBT for patients with PTSD
- Experience providing CBT clinical supervision
- Experience of involvement in service development, clinical governance or quality improvement initiatives.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering EMDR and/or Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary setting.
- Experience of working within a secondary care psychological therapies setting.
- Experience of delivering CBT in a group setting.
- Experience of delivering CBT through interpreters
- Experience of providing teaching or training in CBT.
- Experience of staff managemen
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge pertinent to effective risk assessment and management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of CBT theory and practice.
- Ability to work both autonomously and as a member of a team to manage conflicting demands between service users, the health care system and broader contexts.
- Assess, formulate care plans, implement interventions and evaluation of interventions using CBT
- Ability to provide teaching and training to professionals
- Ability to provide CBT clinical supervision.
- Ability to undertake appropriate risk assessment and formulate risk management plans and implement these plans.
- Skills to elicit, record and communicate routine clinical outcome data collection as part of clinical care. Skills to undertake appropriate clinical audits.
- Ability to engage service users and contribute to service development.
- Ability to analyse complex health information and respond appropriately
- Skills and abilities to contribute and lead on the service development process
- Knowledge of one or more psychotherapeutic approaches other than CBT
Desirable criteria
- Capacity to conduct therapy in a language other than English
- Accredited as a CBT supervisor with the BABCP
- Knowledge of one or more psychotherapeutic approaches other than CBT
- Skills in research methodology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Appelboom
- Job title
- Principal Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8510 2900
- Additional information
Alternative contact person: Liz Doherty, Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 020 8510 2900
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