Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies.
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6213450
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lind Clinic
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inc. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
HI Intensity Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies is a dynamic and innovative, Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service; one of four IAPT services delivered by South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. Lewisham has high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. The service provides psychological care to an ethnically diverse group of patients and the Trust is working to be an anti-racist organisation. Many patients present with multiple problems including social, housing and employment issues, and a wide range of common mental health issues of varying degrees of severity.
We have links with the IAPT training courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, University College London and The University of Exeter. We also work with centres of clinical excellence and research innovation such as the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT). Our motivated staff have engaged with specialised training thus allowing us to offer EMDR, DIT, IPT and couples counselling for depression. We are involved in initiatives to engage in innovative projects with our community, and we are pleased to hear from applicants who have areas of special interests or skills or a second language. We are a diverse, friendly service that aims to listen to and value our staff and aims to promote opportunities to progress people in terms of their continued professional development when these arise.
Main duties of the job
You'll provide a specialist and caring therapeutic service to our clients who are primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. This will include providing specialist therapy, facilitating groups and supporting PWPs to facilitate community and/or in-house workshops.
In addition, this role also involves providing advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers, and supervising other colleagues including trainee therapists and PWPs and trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.
There will be opportunities to develop areas of interest such as working with long term health conditions, working with clients with learning disabilities, working with perinatal clients, older adults, youth, and black men. by contributing to project groups or taking a Champion role.
High quality supervision and CPD are a priority for the team. You will receive regular weekly individual clinical supervision.
You will also have the opportunity to attend monthly Step 3 team clinical training sessions as well as other regular training workshops facilitated by workshops led by highly respected clinicians in their field.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to learning from the people and the local population we serve, and contribute to Trust-wide initiatives to develop anti-racist practice, promote race equity, improve local service provision and a develop a more representative workforce. As a therapist, you would have weekly supervision and have a range of opportunities available to help develop your clinical, leadership and supervision skills as part of your continuing professional development.
We have the opportunity at Lewisham talking therapies (IAPT) to recruit qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ HI CBT therapist. The service offers opportunity to train in other NHS TT approved modalities and provides CPDs to support gain and maintain BABCP accreditation. Oppertunities are available to attend other IAPT approved modalities such as IPT, DIT, EMDR.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary
- To provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service for anxiety and depression to clients from the NHS Talking Therapies service. This involves providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, within one or more psychological therapy models specified by the NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression Manual.
- To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. It will involve supervision of other colleagues including trainee High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, as well as trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.
- The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- Where this is development post completing training at Band 6, to attend and fulfil the requirements of the training to include supervision from educational providers in relation to the coursework, achieving either the essential Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or psychological therapist qualifications as detailed in the person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NHS Talking Therapies High Intensity CBT Postgraduate Diploma
- A recognised post graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or postgraduate level training conferring equivalent competences)Or Doctorate in counselling/Clinical Psychology
- Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) achieved through training and experience with adults with anxiety and depression or working towards it. Or evidence of having achieved the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route to BABCP accreditation. Or HCPC Registered Practitioner/Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post qualification training in clinical supervision
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an NHS Talking Therapies service
- Experience of working with a variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings relevant to an NHS Talking Therapies service, including outpatient, community, and primary care settings
- experince of running Step 3 groups
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience at working with one or more NHS Talking Therapiesrecognised psychological therapies at a specialist leve
- High -level knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more NHS Talking Therapies-recognised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of effective care pathway navigation across primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of adapting specific NHS Talking Therapies -recognised psychological therapies for anxiety and/or depression in the context of co - morbidity and complexity (e.g. personality disorder, additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non - professional groups
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and where relevant their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
- Having a second Lanuguage
- Skill s in running workshops
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
- Catherine Collinson
- Job title
- Senior HI Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3228 1350
- Additional information
Tamara Lord
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