Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-11254-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Louth, Sleaford, Lincoln, Grantham, Spalding, Boston, Gainsborough
- Town
- TBC
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Trainee CBT Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Lincolnshire Talking Therapies is an IAPT site and vacancies have arisen for a number of Trainee CBT therapists situated in bases across Lincolnshire – candidates will be asked for their preference at interview.
The successful applicants will work in the Talking Therapies service whilst also attending Lincoln University for 2 days per week to study for a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
The successful Trainees will provide treatment for people in the self-management of their common mental health problems through NICE recommended protocols whilst studying to attain the CBT qualification.
Trainees will be asked to sign a contract binding them to work for the Trust for 2 years after qualifying.
Candidates must be available to start the course at the beginning of March 2025 and be prepared to travel to the University of Lincoln when required.
Please note that you will need to hold a degree, plus a Professional qualification such as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Psychological Therapy or be able to provide evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of the BABCP – follow the link below for more information:
https://www.babcp.com/Accreditation/Provisional-Accreditation/Core-Professions
Please be aware that if you are applying via KSA route, the portfolio must be ready for submission by the interview date.
For more information please contact Claire Hancox - [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Successfully complete and pass the Post Graduate Diploma in CBT.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and signpost clients who require other services on to the relevant service as necessary.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols .
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Undertake psychological assessments of patients referred to the service.
Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times
Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other agreed psychological therapies
Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development
Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager
Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care
Contribute to specialised programmes of care/care packages/ provide specialised advice concerning care
Assess, develop & implement specialist psychological interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines.
Provide advice in specialist area
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, vulnerable adults and people experiencing domestic abuse, both as service users and visitors to Trust premises.
Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
To use computers to write reports and record data
To use resources in the most beneficial way to service users, based on their need
Responsibilities for human resources (including training)
To receive regular clinical professional supervision.
To carry out duties in relation to local, regional and national initiatives in developing services in the specialist area as opportunities arise.
Responsibilities for information resources
Records personally generated information
Updates service user records as per policy
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Primary Mental Health Care Services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome
- Experience working as a qualified professional
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualifications as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Psychological Therapy
- Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of the BABCP
- Able to attend University on the required days for the course duration
- Able to complete the academic components of the course
- Able to integrate training into practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression
Skills and Competences
Essential criteria
- Ability to evaluate and implement course of CBT study with clinical caseload
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and other common mental health problems
- Computer literate.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Basic understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Completed clinical audits within a service.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable working knowledge and understanding of all relevant policies and legislation
- Understanding of common mental health problems and of current approaches to treatment e.g. NICE Guidelines
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in the workplace.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Hancox
- Job title
- Service Manager - Lincolnshire Talking Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01529 222260
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