Job summary
- Main area
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT Therapist)
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 350-TWS6319826
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park Hospital (OHWB Department)
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 None
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT Therapist)
Band 7
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our multidisciplinary Team within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Why?
We have recently completed a service redesign/re-structure to enable our focus to shift towards health promotion/wellbeing and the prevention of ill-health. This has seen significant investment by the Trust to support new ways of working and as such we are in the process of creating several new opportunities and roles.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and support us through this transition period and beyond allowing us to put staff health and wellbeing exactly where it belongs, at the heart of everything we do.
We have secured a new operational service based at Winwick, Warrington with satellite units in Sefton / Knowsley and Liverpool areas to support delivery of the service across the Trust footprint. We will also consider opportunities for remote working in line with operational demands.
Shortlisting planned for: 5 August 2024
Interview planned for: 17 August 2024 (subject to change)
Main duties of the job
Who do we want?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and qualified CBT Therapist to join our team. The postholder will be responsible for providing a range of high intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based interventions, to those experiencing mild to severe anxiety and depression.
The step 3 workforce is integral to the successful running of the OHWB Psychological Therapies service, helping to ensure the key performance indicators are being met. The post-holder will therefore work alongside the OHWB & Psychological Therapies team and will have managerial support from the OHWB Psychological Therapies Lead, as well as the wider management team.
For full/further details of the role along with the essential and desirable criteria please see the full job description
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for the full description of duties and responsibilities relevant for this role.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislations
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrates the competences as required
- Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own case load and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- Experience with routine out come monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience in Primary Care treating anxiety and depression
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services.
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation
- BABCP accreditation or able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- Computer literate
- 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
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- 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.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
Desirable criteria
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation
- Completed clinical audits within a service
- Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
- Fluent in languages other than English
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
- Claire Ingham
- Job title
- Senior Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 664010
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