Regional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for

2 weeks ago

Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Livewell Southwest Full time

Job Summary:
As a lead specialist, to be responsible for clinical supervision for CBTp therapists across the southwest.

As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing, and managing highly specialist CBTp interventions to clients with psychosis and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.

Responsible for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of specialist CBTp supervision and a thriving regional CBTp network.

The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide leadership from a CBT perspective on psychosis and bipolar.


Responsible for providing professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other CBTp staff, trainee clinical psychologists on placement and trainees in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.

Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the region, on CBTp understanding, interventions and evaluations.

Responsible for developing, organising, and delivering CPD and post-qualification teaching on CBTp for staff in the southwest region.

Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery.

Responsible for working within the Guidelines of the BABCP and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest. Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the Psychotherapy Service manager.

Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the BABCP requirements for CPD.

Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments within CBTp.

Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives, policies, and NICE guidelines in relation to the work

Clinical Skills:

To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.

To engage clients with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse.

To work with, and support others to work with clients with complex trauma, emotional disorders, and psychosis for whom CBTp expertise is required in order to provide appropriate assessment, testing, rehabilitation and/or maintain placement, contributing to the liaison with commissioners and funding managers to provide feedback and advice on such clients progress and ongoing needs.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources.

To be able to complete appropriate formal assessments with complex clients.

To be able to communicate complex CBT formulations and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood.

To prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports where necessary.

To have knowledge of and skill within several cognitive and behavioural models of understanding and managing distress including, for example, third-wave, radical behavioural and Beckian models To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal.

To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all CBTp staff

Policy and Service Development:
To be responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist CBTp services within the southwest region. To be responsible for contributing to the planning and development of specialist CBTp services across the southwest. To attend the Psychotherapy service meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.

Human Resources:

To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to CBTp, trainee CBTp and trainee clinical psychologists on placement within the region.

To be responsible for the supervision of the work of trainee CBTp.

To teach on local postgraduate courses in CBTp if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required.

To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.


Research and Development:
To conduct

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