Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- CBT Therapist Bedford
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Florence Ball House
- Town
- Bedford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clin/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist - Bedford
7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
We are seeking a Counselling/Clinical Psychologist or CBT Therapist to work in our Adult Community Mental Health Services. It is an exciting time to join the mental health services in this area. We are developing new ways of working as we move further towards a truly trauma-informed culture and shape new psychologically-informed intervention offers alongside our partners in primary care and the voluntary sector.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide specialist evidence-based assessment, formulation and intervention for people with a range of complex mental health needs, including individual, couple/family and group interventions. They will possess an enthusiasm for and experience of working in a mental health MDT and demonstrate the skills to help steer the team to psychological understanding of their clients and the development of psychologically informed services. The team values the role of psychological therapists highly and, as such, the role is multifaceted and includes consultation and teaching roles, as well as active involvement in quality improvement projects, staff support initiatives and wider Trust initiatives.
We are therefore looking for someone with good knowledge and skills within these domains, and someone who is ready to join an innovative and efficient service as we move into transformation of services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
Working for our organisation
You will be co-located with your team and with the other Psychologists and therapists who work within the area and will be working with primary and secondary care colleagues.
As a member of the Bedfordshire and Luton psychological therapies staff group the post holder would join the regular psychology meetings which focus on Clinical Governance and peer-led Continual Professional Development (CPD).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) and HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist. Or Postgraduate level training in CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder and with accreditation as a practitioner/therapist with the relevant accrediting body (BABCP).
Desirable criteria
- Further training or qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder.
- Experience in working in mental health multidisciplinary settings and representing a psychological perspective in these teams and services.
- Clinical experience of working with people with serious mental illness presentations.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of psychological interventions in different cultural contexts.
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services
- Experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
- Competence in use of IT equipment and software packages for the purposes of clinical record keeping, electronic communication, creating organisational documentation, data entry and analysis, research, and multimedia presenting and teaching.
- Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS.
- Able to draw upon a theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts and situations, requiring sustained and intense concentration, to arrive at appropriate formulation and compare and select from a range of treatment options.
- An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others’ clinical caseload.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to use skills and knowledge to design and implement service evaluations.
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
- Sam Vaughan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775 603008
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