Job summary
- Main area
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-SPS1031-AT-C
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Bay Locality
- Town
- Lancaster
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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 & 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 & South Cumbria 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 about Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
- To provide high quality CBT to children, young people and adults who present with an eating disorder, including those with a degree of complexity.
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including specialist nurses, psychologists/ psychological therapists, specialist GP/ medics and dietitians.
- 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, and other members of the MDT as required.
- To deliver a CBT service in accordance with NICE guidelines, meeting key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
- 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 work with the Team Leaders and Senior Clinical Psychologists/Lead Clinicians to support managing waiting times, prevalence and recovery.
- To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
- To take lead CBT role in a designated areas of work.
- To provide an element of clinical leadership at team level, taking a role in service development, including engaging and working with other agencies.
Main duties of the job
This post will be based in the Bay Locality, Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal & Barrow.
You should be an excellent communicator and team player, with the successful applicant joining a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Dietitians, specialist therapists and medics.
The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality psychosocial assessment and specialist CBT intervention to children, young people and adults with eating disorders. You will contribute to the broader aims of the service through joint working, consultation, training, supervision and service development. You will be joining the service at a real time of development and will be able to help influence change going forward.
You will benefit from an enthusiastic, hard-working and supportive peer group of CBT Therapists and other modality therapists/ Clinical Psychologists across the service. The post-holder will receive regular supervision and professional support from an experienced therapist and contact with other relevant specialist interest groups would be encouraged.
Applications will be welcome from suitably qualified CBT Therapists with BABCP registration.
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.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Formally recognised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Post Graduate Diploma
- CBT full accreditation with BABCP
- Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN or Social Worker OR KSA equivalence
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Extensive theoretical and clinical knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with eating disorder etc.) and disorder specific treatment models.
- 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.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy assessment and treatment of clients in mental health services.
- 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.
- Experience and knowledge of providing clinical supervision, utilising appropriate supervision models and safeguarding
Other
Essential criteria
- Working to professional guidelines.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
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
- Jennie Wynn
- Job title
- Team Leader, Fylde
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 448 025
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