Senior Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

2 months ago

Stockport, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Stockport Talking Therapies is a successful multi-disciplinary service and is excited with the opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic Band 8a Senior CBT therapist.

To be consulted on cases which will be considered outliers to a standard IAPT operating model, typically labelled as ‘complex’, ‘challenging’ or ‘chronic’, but may fall within a common mental disorders pathway.
To ensure IAPT compliance within the service, assuring the service manager of CBT governance and ensuring the delivery of CBT therapies across the service which aims to meet the needs of a largely heterogeneous socio-cultural demographic.
To ensure supervision governance standards are delivered within the “Supervision of Psychological Therapies” competency frame work (CSIP / skills for health); to enable the CBT workforce to deliver NICE compliant recovery focused treatment that meets IAPT model fidelity.
To provide clinical supervision and / or supervision of supervision to CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) and develop CBT pathways and treatments within the service. The post holder will support the clinical lead in delivering robust clinical leadership across the service, and report to the senior manager and clinical lead.
To utilise research skills for audit and service development and support the clinical lead in meeting the research and audit agenda.

Stockport Talking Therapies is a successful multi-disciplinary service and is excited with the opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic Band 8a Senior CBT therapist.

Stockport Talking Therapies is high performing service which provides innovative Primary Care Psychological Therapies using a range of evidenced based treatments for people requiring a brief psychological intervention utilising a stepped care model, in accordance with NICE guidelines.

Within the core IAPT offer the Step 2 service provides Computerised CBT and Guided Self Help with the Step 3 service providing CBT, Eye Movement De-sensitization & Reprocessing, Counselling and Inter-Personal therapy.

Group interventions are offered at all Steps. At Step 3, the current group offers include:
“ Skills for Life group ”, (for younger people, 16-25 years, using an emotional skills approach)

“Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy group ”,

“ Living well ”, (for clients living with a Long Term Condition).

The service includes practitioners who specialise in working with Younger People and Peri-natal clients and are accessible for case consultation.

The Step 3.5 service provision uses enhanced therapeutic offers including CBT/EMDR/counselling/CBASP for people whose clinical presentation shows more complexity. Alongside this the Step 3.5 service offers Psycho-Dynamic Therapy and Psycho Sexual Therapy.
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
- Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the cognitive and behavioural model of psychopathology.
- Assess clients for their suitability for psychological interventions
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer clients who do not meet service eligibility on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and

treatment of clients in line with the service criteria.
- Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying cognitive and/or behavioural psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
- On an individual and team level, ensure the modification of cognitive and / or behavioural formulations and treatments are made to meet the needs of specific populations or specific needs, whilst maintaining compliance to C/BT treatment manuals and ensuring therapy drift is monitored.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Attend and/or chair multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach, and also contribute to the development and governance of the stepped care pathway.
- Assess and integrate psychosocial issues into the overall therapy process (e.g. work, relationships, other occupation etc.)
- Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the car

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