Cbt Therapist

Exciting opportunity to work in dynamic, highly regarded, NHS commissioned voluntary sector young people's mental health service

**CBT Therapist/Clinical /Counselling Psychologist/ Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Social worker**

**Responsible to: Clinical Director**

**Hours: We are recruiting up to 2 FTE to a number of posts, with flexibility around working hours and days of the week, although this is likely to include Thursdays. Successful applicants are expected to work some after school times (4-7pm). Ideally, they would also be able to attend team meetings on Tuesdays 1.00-3.00pm**

**Salary: £35,000 to 42,000 (pro rata) depending on experience**

**Contract: Initial 12 month fixed-term (with the expectation of extension)**

**We are looking for an experienced CBT therapist with experience of working with adolescents to join our team. This may include therapists with specialist CBT skills, who are from the following professional backgrounds**:
**CBT Therapist**

**Clinical/Counselling Psychologist**

**Social Worker**

**Clinical Nurse Specialist**

This may include specialising in parent work, work with 12—24 year olds, work with young adults or a combination.

**About Open Door**

Open Door is a not-for-profit organisation providing a range of free and confidential psychological therapies to young people aged 12-24, and a separate consultation service for parents of teenagers and young adults aged 12-21. Last year we worked with over 800 young people, parents and carers offering over 8,000 appointments.

Open Door is based in Haringey, North London, home to some of the most deprived and also some of the most affluent communities in the capital. We are committed to providing a service across the borough - from our main bases in Crouch End and Tottenham as well as in secondary schools and online.

Open Door offers treatment to adolescents and young adults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. Whilst most of our Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapists have undertaken psychoanalytic based trainings, we also offer CBT and Mindfulness Based Therapy and specialist trauma focussed therapies including EMDR.

The clinical team currently comprises 26 therapists, many of whom are NHS trained and all of whom are professionally accredited. We are a highly skilled team and many of our clinicians also teach on professional trainings.

Since 2000 Open Door has run an innovative **Parenting Teenagers Project (PTP)**, which is targeted at parents of young people aged 12-21 where the parent is concerned about a teenager who will not seek and access help in their own right. Open Door has developed a fully evaluated brief model of parent work - the _Open Door Approach to Parenting Teenagers _(APT). The post-holders will be expected to undertake work with parents and carers and may also be able to undertake training in the Open Door manualised model.

Open Door continues to evolve in response to what we learn from listening to young people and is committed to ongoing service innovation. Current targeted projects include **New Narratives** - working with young people and families affected by serious youth violence, a partnership project with Haringey’s new **Autism Hub** to provide therapeutic support for young autistic adults. We are developing new partnerships with the NHS and voluntary sector to provide therapy to care effected adolescents and young adults, and consultation to professionals working with them. Following our success with the New Narratives project, we are expanding the work through a new partnership with London Vanguard, an NHS commissioned project to develop a tri-borough model of support for young people who are impacted by serious youth violence across Haringey, Enfield and Islington. Open Door will be providing specialist parent work as part of this offer. Open Door also currently delivers services in secondary schools offering a range of therapeutic interventions to students as well as consultation and training to staff. There may be opportunities to work in these particular projects depending on the interests and experience of the post-holders.

Open Door also provides training placements for ACP (Association of Child Psychotherapists) accredited trainees and Psychodynamic Psychotherapists Working with Children, Young People and Families as well as those undertaking trainings in psychology and those on CYP-IAPT and other NHS funded trainings.

Open Door works across all THRIVE quadrants / tiers 2-3, with the majority of service users (c80%) scoring in the moderate to severe range in validated outcome measures (PHQ-9, SDQ and CORE). Given the high level of severity

and complexity of presentations, Open Door works closely with CAMHS, AMHS and Social Care to ensure the best possible care for its patients.

Open Door is funded by the NHS, Local Authority, charitable trusts, and donations. Though Open Door is part of the Single Point of Entry for professional