Job overview

The North Stoke Community CAMHS Team are looking to recruit a full time Band 7 CBT Therapist.

The successful candidate will:

·        Manage the referral pathway and develop the pathway to meet the four week wait target.

·        Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service. 

·        Ensure that each referral is allocated to the most appropriate CB therapist or professional in a timely way to meet the waiting time targets. 

·        Ensure fidelity to the CBT model, ensuring timely intervention, treatment and discharge. 

·        Support the embedding of CYP-IAPT principles within practice and within the team.

Main duties of the job

·        Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service’s referral protocols, and when appropriate to signpost clients on to more relevant services or back to the referral source as necessary. 

·        Carry out specialist assessments, and highly complex formulations, treatment plans, and interventions. Clinical work will be with individuals, groups, couples and families across all sectors of care, including clients frequently presenting severe and/or highly complex difficulties. 

·        Provide specialist evidenced based supervision to NHS and partner agency staff in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire and the Region. 

·        Provide role model and clinical leadership in relation to the delivery of high quality mental health care. 

·        Maintain and develop knowledge of advances in mental health practice, or theory in practice and act as the catalyst for innovation.

Working for our organisation

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. 

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.  

 The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.