Psychological Therapist

**The closing date is 2nd Jan 2025**

**Job summary**:
This post will work within primary care and community settings developing key relationships involving patients, General Practitioners and primary care colleagues, clinical team, other health care staff, and non-statutory organisations alongside training provider tutors and clinical supervisors.

This is role within the Talking Therapies Portsmouth service providing high intensity interventions. The post-holder is to provide cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:

- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
- Assess patients for suitability for CBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for a trainee therapists to refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case, and make onward referral or signposting as directed and appropriate.
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department's referral protocols, and refer unsuitable patients onto the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for patients
- Facilitate therapy groups
- Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language

**About us**:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

**Job description**:
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, BABCP accredited training in CBT or basic professional qualification in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy or equivalent.

**Desirable**:
BABCP accredited

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Experience of specialist psychotherapeutics assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care pathway settings, including outpatient, community, and inpatient settings (or presenting with same level acuity)

Experience of supervising other mental health professionals and teaching/training within a veteran specific sector

Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Ability to manage own caseload and time

Extensive experience of providing evidence based and NICE compliant treatments

**Desirable**:
Experience of training in management and/or coaching

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**:
**UK Professional Registration**:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Katherine Drew

**Pay scheme**:
Agenda for Change

**Band**:
Band 7

**Salary**:

- £46148.00 to £52809.00 Yearly

**Contract**:
Permanent

**Working pattern**:
Part-Time, Flexible Working

**Reference number**:
449-MHS-6661

**Job locations**:
Hamble House
Nelson Drive
Southsea
Hampshire
PO4 8PF