Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 453-24-6232498
- Employer
- Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fieldhead CAMHS
- Town
- Bradford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
Job overview
Children & Young People's Community Eating Disorder Service (CYP CEDS)
Band 7 Psychological therapist/practitioner psychologist/clinical psychologist
Permanent - Part Time 22.5 hours per week
There has never been a more exciting time to join Bradford District Care Trust!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a psychological therapist, practitioner psychologist or mental health practitioner to join a well established children and young people's community eating disorders service hosted by Bradford Aire Wharfe Craven CAMHS. The successful applicant will join a 13.5 equivalent multi disciplinary team including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, mental health practitioner and associate practitioner roles. We have a close working relationship with our paediatric colleagues who support with in patient refeeding when necessary. The family therapy FT-AN, FT-BN approach is at our core and we also offer a parent group, adjunct therapies, neurodevelopmental assessment and medication initiation and monitoring.
Closing Date – 13th May 2024
Shortlisting Date – 14th May 2024
Interview Date – 22nd May 2024
Main duties of the job
- Work with other members of the multi disciplinary team to provide holistic care and understanding for service users through team discussions, formulations, consultations, joint work and training.
- Work with autonomous professional judgement, together with other psychological therapists, to deliver evidence based therapy to individual and groups of patients.
- Manage a designated caseload of patients with responsibility for their assessment (including clinical risk), implementation and evaluation of therapy.
- Supervise and support psychological therapists and other health care professionals.
- Support the delivery of psychological skills based interventions to service users in the team.
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Proactively contribute to the achievement of positive clinical outcomes. This will include conducting evaluations using clinical outcome measures and satisfaction surveys.
- Communicate effectively with patients, relatives/carers and colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a manner that is sensitive, open, welcoming and person-centred.
- Act as a mentor to students, support newly qualified staff and be responsible for implementing the appraisal process.
- Use IT systems effectively.
- Maintain accurate, up to date clinical records in accordance with Trust policy.
- To complete Routine Outcome Monitoring as required by service area in a timely and meaningful fashion.
- Provide clinical leadership to the psychological therapists.
- Support the Team Manager with operational duties; including appraisal, caseload management and providing cover in the absence of the Team Manager.
- Delegate tasks to staff within their competency and ensure that the delegation/escalation process forms part of the culture of the service.
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level training in clinical or applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence OR Specialist post graduate training to masters level or equivalent in a psychotherapeutic modality - including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy AND Accreditation from a recognised Psychological Therapy body e.g. BABCP, BACP, UKCP, HCPC via: (a) Professional route; requiring previous mental health qualification e.g. Clin. Psych, RMN, Dip. SW. or (b) where applicable, the KSA (knowledge, skills and attitude) route (e.g. with the BABCP).
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training.
- Training in trauma informed care.
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
- Training in clinical supervision (expected in first year post qualification for clinical psychologists).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in relevant area of mental health practise
- Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.
- Clinical leadership experience
Desirable criteria
- Clinical leadership experience
- Experience delivering psychological therapies to groups of patients.
- Experience in applying specialist psychological therapies
- Experience of leading or participating in regular reflective practice around themes such as anti-racism in therapy, power in mental health, the impact of health inequality and cultural curiosity
- Experience working within a trauma informed framework.
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
- Emma Lumb
- Job title
- Eating Disorder Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07501508097
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