Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

**Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) Supervisor**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- Mental Health - Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (Part time considered)
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1053-A**Site**
- TBC - West covering Redruth to Penzance
- **Town**
- To be confirmed
- **Salary**
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per annum / Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
Transformation of community mental health services requires the expansion of services to provide trauma-informed care and wider access to psychologically informed interventions and NICE recommended psychological therapies.

We need an enthusiastic CBT supervisor to deliver and supervise CBT and contribute to the training, supervision and oversight of our second and third cohort of Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP’s). The successful applicant will join two existing CBT therapists already in post.

A Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) is a new NHS England role, designed to support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and to deliver a set of brief, wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions (not therapy), e.g. behavioural activation and graded exposure, problem-solving, improving sleep, recognising and managing emotions, guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating, confidence building and support with medicines management. As well as improving support for service users, this role should build capacity in teams to enable more experienced staff to focus on delivery of psychological therapies or to train in psychological therapies.

**Main duties of the job**:
To deliver and supervise CBT in community teams, including training, and contribute to the training, supervision and oversight of our growing workforce of Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP’s). Clinical work will be with people on the caseload of the CMHT's.

The post-holder will receive regular clinical supervision from either a registered psychologist or senior CBT practitioner, and line management. They will be supported to develop their skills further.

For the supervision of the MHWP’s, the post-holder will be supported through a nationally funded short training course.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing