Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

NHS LLR Psychological Therapies Team is seeking a highly skilled Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience. This post offers the opportunity to work within a newly formed, dynamic, and innovative service, that provides high quality CBT for patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological services.

This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients. Now operating in its second year, the service offers an amazing opportunity for the right candidate. You would join a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team, that has established excellent in-house weekly supervision, CPD events and hosts research projects. This provides significant opportunities for ongoing skills development, enhancement, and potential for development of research skills.

The Role

Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but are not limited to):

1. Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
2. Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.
3. Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research.
4. Provide expert CBT education, training and supervision to clinical staff.

Main duties of the job

To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of psychological therapy and psychology services. To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological therapy services with complex problems for which CBT is evidenced to be clinically effective.

This includes working with adults who may present with severe and treatment resistant disorders with co-existing conditions. To use a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information to provide specialist cognitive behavioural assessments and formulations that inform highly skilled CBT interventions. To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload under clinical and case management supervision. To contribute to the ongoing development of CBT practice considering advances in treatment, theory, and research. To maintain specialist CBT knowledge and skills and BABCP accreditation. The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

To work from the clinical base, in patients' homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics across LPT sites, for predominantly face-to-face sessions. Some remote working will be appropriate. Adherence to all the Trust's standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.