Trainee Cypt Cbt Therapist

**Job Title**:CYP CBT Trainee Therapist

**Hours**: 35 hours

**Salary**:Scale 6 SCP 20 (£28,371)

**Duration**:12 Months Fixed Term _(possibility of permanent - funding dependant)_

**Employed by**:Young Persons Advisory Service

**Responsible to**:YIACS Development Manager

**Accountable to**:Senior Strategy and Operations Manager

**Project Delivery**: Therapy Service

**Location**:YPAS Community Hubs (Central, North, and South), and peripatetic delivery

**Purpose of Role**:

- To gain a postgraduate diploma in Psychological Therapies with Children and Young People: Child and Young Persons (CYP) Cognitive Behaviour (CBT) pathway
- To deliver evidence-based therapy to CYPs
- To attend CBT Training Centre (Greater Manchester West) two days per week teaching
- To deliver 3 days per week clinical practice and clinical supervision at YPAS

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To attend CBT Training Centre (Greater Manchester West) 2 day per week
- To complete placement with Young Persons Advisory Service 3 days per week
- To carry out assessments to identify appropriate intervention.
- To utilise routine outcome measures collaboratively with children, parents and teachers to assess, monitor, evaluate and demonstrate the impact of the intervention.
- To utilise electronic equipment to record sessions and reflect in clinical supervision and placement supervisions.
- To fully participate on lectures, seminars, self-directed learning,
- To ensure reflection of recordings of clinical work,
- To fully participate in supervision of clinical practice.
- To attend initial five days of core IPT-A teaching over two weeks
- To attend academic teaching one day per week (Thursdays) across 3 terms
- To develop and maintain sound working relationships with external agencies, to enable appropriate support relating to the young person’s needs.
- To initiate and support the EHAT (Early Help Assessment Tool) assessments
- To attend safeguarding meetings as and when required by caseload
- To ensure Information Governance compliant in relation to safeguarding children and young people personal data
- To record, file and populate data in accordingly
- To actively promote participation
- To generate monthly statistical information
- To contribute to YPAS service developments, including monitoring and evaluation.
- To be committed to value based and anti
- discriminatory practice
- To participate and consult within YPAS’s policy review system
- To actively participate in the quality assurance of the service via appropriate systems underpinned by ISO9001
- To share knowledge and skills through training as and when required.
- To engage with all YPAS services in response to internal pathways
- To produce monthly management reports based on your undertaken work and activities and deliver the content via a presentation as and when required.
- To contribute to the organisation’s annual report content.
- To undertake any additional duties consistent with the nature of the position as agreed through the management structure.

**Shared Tasks;**
- To adhere to all health and safety regulations
- To adhere to all YPAS policies.
- To actively participate in the evaluation and quality assurance of the service.
- To share knowledge and skills through training as and when required.
- To engage with all YPAS services and team members

**Support and Supervision;**
- Comprehensive staff induction
- KIT (keep in touch) meetings during probation period
- Six weekly line management supervision
- External/clinical case-load supervision.
- Staff meetings
- Skill share meetings
- Staff Conferences
- Service Development Days
- Annual appraisal

**Safeguarding**:
YPAS is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and families and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

**Information Governance**:
You are required to familiarise yourself with the charity’s Information GovernancePolicy and adhere to all related policies and procedures included in the staff induction.

**Review**

**Salary**: £28,371.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 30/08/2023
Reference ID: CBT2023
Expected start date: 15/01/2024