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Main area
CBT Therapist
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
351-CEN1017-CL
Employer
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Talking Therapies Pendle & Ribble Valley
Town
Nelson
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust logo

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Band 7

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

•    Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
•    Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
•    Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and self-motivated individuals to work for Talking Therapies (Improving Access to Psychological Therapy/ IAPT) Service 


The Talking Therapies service has dedicated teams of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and Counsellors who offer a range of support to help people make positive changes to reduce stress and anxiety and improve their wellbeing. 
An opportunity exists for a suitably qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, who is passionate about providing meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences to address common mental health problems, to join the Pendle & Ribble Valley Talking Therapies team. 


Applicants who have not completed their training as a CBT therapist will not be considered. Applicants need to be BACP fully accredited.


Our CBT Therapists offer accessible screening, assessment and treatment for mild to moderate mental health problems, giving service users a greater degree of choice and flexibility by providing an extensive menu of therapies including psycho-education courses, 1:1 therapy, and group and computerised CBT programs.


You will have a proven track record of delivering high quality service outcomes against robust performance measures and have excellent interpersonal qualities; time management skills; an ability to work autonomously; and an enthusiasm for working in an ever-developing IAPT environment.

 

Main duties of the job

  • To provide high quality CBT to adults with common mental health problems including those with a degree of complexity.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedure.
  • To provide clinical supervision and mentoring to cognitive behavioural therapists and trainees.
  • To deliver a CBT service in accordance with NICE guidelines, meeting key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
  • To work to the agreed model and number of clinical contacts per week as set by the service
  • To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to non-CBT colleagues and to non-professional carers.
  • To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
  • To deliver and support the delivery of CBT within agreed activity levels and an agreed model.
  • To work with the Team Leader and Clinical Leads to provide a co-production role in managing waiting times, prevalence and recovery
  • To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
  • To take lead role / clinical specialty in a designated areas of work i.e. LTC, Older adults, veterans, etc.
  • To provide clinical leadership at team/locality level, taking a lead role in service development, including engaging and working with other agencies 

Working for our organisation

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Formally recognised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Post Graduate (Master’s Level) diploma
  • Provisional CBT Accreditation with BABCP
  • AND Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN or Social Worker OR KSA equivalence

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy.
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Knowledge of the NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) model and a willingness to develop the service clinically.
  • An understanding of the key performance indicators in NHS Talking Therapies services and how they relate to clinical practice.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • A broad range of experience of working with a wide variety of clients that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
  • Significant experience of delivering specialist Cognitive Behaviour Therapy assessment and treatment of clients in Adult Mental Health, and managing own clinical caseload of therapy clients safely and effectively
  • Experience of managing risk and safeguarding concerns according to relevant policies
  • Experience of Promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required.
  • Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
  • Ability to cope and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances.
  • Ability to cope with unpleasant working conditions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Leanne Meakin
Job title
Deputy Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01282657927
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