Cbt Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust Eating Disorder service is going through a system wide mental health transformation programme in line with the Long-Term Plan (LTP). This expansion is planned to improve care delivery and parity of esteem between physical and mental health and ensure that everyone in Lincolnshire who is experiencing an eating disorder will receive a service. This is an exciting time to join the team when we are looking to expand our workforce and train more people to deliver eating disorder therapies across Lincolnshire.

We are looking to recruit a CBT Practitioner, which is one of the most effective evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and you will have a passion to support service users with an eating disorder to recover. Experience is not essential as training and guidance will be given to develop your expertise in this area.

During this training period you will attend Sheffield University one day a week, receive supervision from an experienced eating disorder professional to support the development and your understanding of the model.

You will work within a well-established team, however you will be required to deliver an autonomous service as part of your role, operating within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust’s policies and procedures.

You will provide assessment and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT/CBT-e) to patients who are referred into the Eating Disorders Service who present with an eating disorder, including co-morbid presentation of anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

To provide support, advice and supervision to staff working in the Eating Disorders Service in regard to implementing CBT/CBT-e based interventions. This will either be on an individual basis or within a group environment.

You will provide line management supervision to staff in line with service requirement.

To provide needs assessment and risk assessment, planning, and implementation and monitor effectiveness of interventions to adults with an eating disorder.

You will work with patients with different cultural backgrounds and should be committed to equal opportunities

You will actively encourage and support service user involvement and will support staff to incorporate Routine Outcome Measures into their assessment and therapeutic work.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the services.

Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to service referral protocols, and signpost patients who require other services, both internal and external, onto the relevant service as necessary.

Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for adults referred into the service.

Adhere to an agreed number of clinical sessions to be carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.

Adhere to the recommended number of clinical contacts offered (unless sound clinical reason for not doing so and agreed with clinical supervisor).

Provide support, advice and supervision to staff working within the Adult Eating Disorders Service in regard to implementing CBT/CBT-e based interventions.

Attend meetings relating to referrals of adults 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 MDT’s, ensuring good continuity of care appropriate to need.

Participate in the Duty Officer rota to RAG rate referrals received into the Service as per the local Service’s RAG rating protocol as well as offer advice and guidance to any professionals.

Carry out clinical audits of s