Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Covering maternity leave)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6077416-B
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Willows
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Specialist Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking to recruit a Band 7 Senior Therapist to cover maternity leave for 12 months.
The successful candidate will:
- Provide a specialist CBT-e & IPT model of treatment to clients within the Specialist Adult Eating Disorders service (SAEDS)
- Provide supervision to therapists within the SAEDS.
- Act as Care co-ordinator for Eating Disorder Service clients, as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will be professionally responsible for all aspects of their own work including the management of service users in their care.
- To organise clinical work effectively with particular regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
- To provide appropriate interventions to clients, according to the nature of their eating difficulty and the current clinical guidelines.
- To monitor patients physical health through the coordination and delivery of physical health clinics, responsible for the taking of blood, undertaking ECG’s and the monitoring of weight and height, interpret results and to act on these accordingly.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To care co-ordinate clients with complex needs as appropriate.
- To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress, and to ensure effective intervention.
- The post holder will be responsible for the development and provision of group interventions for clients and carers.
- To provide specialist advice to service users and their carers and offer information about resources available to service users within the community.
- To engage and develop effective therapeutic relationships with eating disorder clients to maximise their recovery potential, and advance their understanding of the condition.
- To work collaboratively and in conjunction with the Adult Community Mental Health Teams in a Hub and Spoke model of care delivery
- To use skills including motivational interviewing and psychoeducation specific to Eating Disorders, this will involve eliciting highly sensitive information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Qualification in Mental Health i.e First level professional nursing / AHP / Social Work.
- • Post registration experience at a leadership level
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Post registration experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team with proven ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries.
- • Has experience in supporting and supervising carers, voluntary services and or primary health care professionals.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge and application of Psychological Therapy techniques such as CBT and motivational interviewing. Comprehensive knowledge of relevant healthcare policy.
- • Knowledge and experience of audit processes.
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
- Delysia Mc Knight
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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