Job overview

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic individual to join Newcastle Adult Community Mental Health Team (Lyme Brook Centre), Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. The Team operates from its main base on the Bradwell Hospital Site (free parking) which serves an identified catchment area within Newcastle-under-Lyme and the surrounding areas.

If you are an experienced CBT therapist, with post qualification experience relevant to the service area, have good clinical skills and are motivated to further develop your knowledge and practice and want to work as part of a large MDT, this role is perfect for you.

The post-holder is an autonomous clinical practitioner, responsible for their own actions within the context of professional and BABCP guidelines and the overall framework of service objectives and policies.

The post-holder will provide highly specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and contribute to teaching and training in CBT within the Trust, in consultation with Lead Psychologists, Trust Managers and University partners.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT and CB interventions to clients with a range of complex mental health needs, involving the clients’ family/informal carers as required.
• Hold substantial responsibility for the provision of expert clinical supervision to practising Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and other colleagues providing CBT within Psychological Services and across the Trust.
• Provide expert advice and consultation on psychological issues to colleagues within the Trust and to other multi-agency professionals including training and collaborative clinical work. 
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with multi-agency colleagues working with the client group and take a key role in ensuring that clients are appropriately referred and sign-posted to other services as their needs require.
• Develop and implement a post-graduate diploma curriculum in evidence-based CBT; researching, writing and delivering teaching modules and skills-based workshops.
• Work with senior Trust colleagues and University partners to design and implement a developmental training pathway in CBT to equip the organisation to deliver effective CBT within cluster-based service pathways.
• Utilise research skills for the ongoing audit of the service, in particular regular outcome measurement and for research, policy and service development within the area served by the Service.

Working for our organisation

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. 

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.  For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan.  As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme”. 

 The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.