Cbt Therapist

The Role: What you will do?
**The Role: What you will do?**

Looking to work from home whilst delivering a mental health service that will make a real difference to lives?

We are looking for a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to work within our **fully-remote** Mental Health Service. Vita Health Group is an award-winning specialist for Mental Health, providing people with Mental Health support and treatment through the UK's leading businesses, government bodies, the NHS, and insurance groups. We assist both employers and employees with an occupational health and wellbeing focus which positively impacts absenteeism and presenteeism

**To achieve our ultimate aim of making people better we recognise importance and benefits of investing in our team. We provide**:

- Focus of staff wellbeing through, events, staff events, wellbeing champions and initiatives
- Flexible approach to working through remote and homeworking options
- Day to day clinical support and leadership
- Excellent clinical supervision in accordance with IAPT Manual and IAPT Supervision guidance
- Ongoing continual professional development opportunities
- Opportunities for Clinical Supervisor, Leadership roles as part of longer-term career development
- A friendly and supportive work environment with an overall culture of energy, solution focus and excellence in both our service delivery and support to our team

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**The Role**:

- You will provide virtual based therapy & case management for referrals from our Corporate and Insurance customers. This includes triage and placement to the appropriate level within the service and monitoring a case from beginning to end, to facilitate a patient to maintain or return to their maximum level of functioning.
- You will offer 1:1 CBT interventions via secure telephone or video link, along with receive weekly supervision & training as part of your role as well as providing peer supervision to other colleagues within the team.

**Skills and Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Post graduate diploma in High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- BABCP accreditation or working towards BABCP accreditation
- Experience of dealing with a broad range of mental health disorders
- An understanding of acute mental health/psychological assessments
- Experience of risk assessment and routine clinical outcome monitoring
- Confident communication skills to liaise with other professional groups and multi-disciplinary teams

**Desirable**:

- Other recognisable therapy qualifications i.e. EMDR, CYP’s, DBT, CFT and other specialisms.
- Have an awareness occupational health: value being ensured to both occupational clients as well as to individuals
- An awareness of working with private medical insurance

**Why Vita Health Group?**:
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
- Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
- Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.