Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term: 12 months (Mon-Fri 9-5))
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 277-6738800-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Stones House
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior CAMHS CBT Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
Main duties of the job
- Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway
- Generic Team
- Looked After and Adopted Children Team
- Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities Team
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, clinical/counselling psychology with appropriate up-to-date registration.
- To have completed a post-graduate accredited qualification in CBT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including work with children.
- Experience of working with a variety of client groups, presenting with problems 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.
Desirable criteria
- CAMHS experience
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT within a mental health setting.
- Knowledge/skills in the theory and practice of CBT with children and young people.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use CYP IAPT outcome measures and integrate these into therapy
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
- Tanya Martin
- Job title
- Generic Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02083154430
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