Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

**Job Overview**

If you are a highly skilled and experienced Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience, then we want to hear from you. The Trust has an amazing opening for someone who is seeking the challenge of working within a highly skilled and experienced team which is continually developing its practice. We can offer excellent inhouse supervision and CPD, providing a good opportunity for skills development and enhancement.

**The Role**

Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but aren’t limited to):
Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within the Specialist CBT Service and providing representation to a designated Neighbourhood Mental Health Team as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.
Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research.
Provide expert CBT education, training, co-working and clinical supervision to clinical staff working within or external to the Trust.

To succeed in this role you will have (See attached Person spec for complete experience list):
Full practitioner accreditation with the BABCP
A core mental health professional qualification and membership of the appropriate statutory professional regulatory body (NMC, HCPC, Social work England).
Post-qualification experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) for adults with a range of mental health problems where there is a strong evidence base for CBT, for example, depression, panic disorder, PTSD, cPTSD and OCD.
An MSc in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent.
Experience of delivering specialist CBT to a wide range of patients of varying cultural and demographic backgrounds, including working with interpreters.
Experience of highly specialist CBT assessment and treatment of patients with a wide range of diagnoses, across a range of care settings such as; outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and clients’ home.
You will need to have a full driving licence as the role covers Leicestershire County and Rutland

In return, the Trust is able to offer a challenging, stimulating and ultimately, rewarding role with a renowned team. If you want to secure an interesting and challenging career, please contact us.

**Contact Details**:
**Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)**

To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of the Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy Service and within psychological therapy and psychology and integrated community services and care pathways. To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients with complex problems in line with NICE guidelines. To work working autonomously within professional guidelines, Trust policies, procedures, and service priorities.

To participate fully in multi professional team meetings to support professionals and offer highly specialist CBT clinical consultation and supervision on service users’ psychological care to multi-disciplinary colleagues.

To work across all psychotherapy and psychological services to co
- design, plan and implement a CBT informed transdiagnostic, process orientated, broad based psychological treatment offers across planned treatment and recovery. To support the delivery of CBT formulation and CBT interventions through supervision, training and co-working across planned treatment and recovery services.

To provide teaching, consultation, training utilising specialist clinical knowledge to colleagues working across the integrated healthcare system including to colleagues trained to a doctoral level. To provide BABCP accredited clinical supervision to colleagues and trainees and maintain own BABCP full CBT practitioner accreditation and BABCP supervisors’ credentials.

The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. To work remotely as necessary and to work from a base, in patients’ homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics at across LPT sites, adhering to all the Trust’s standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexib