Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Stockport Healthy Minds is a successful multi-disciplinary IAPT service and is excited with the opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic Band 7 CBT therapist.
Stockport Healthy Minds is high performing service which provides innovative Primary Care Psychological Therapies using a range of evidenced based treatments for people requiring a brief psychological intervention utilising a stepped care model, in accordance with NICE guidelines.

Role Summary and Key Responsibilities

The service encourages & promotes staff development, staff are encouraged to participate in the delivery of clinical supervision and/or training to colleagues and partnership organisations. This may include further training in varying therapeutic modalities, and/or specialist areas and various champion roles. Members of staff are offered 5 CPD days pro rata by the Trust and the service also offers monthly CPD events.
Within the core IAPT offer the Step 2 service provides Computerised CBT and Guided Self Help with the Step 3 service providing CBT, EMDR, Counselling and Inter-Personal therapy. Group interventions are offered at all Steps.
The service includes practitioners who specialise in working with Younger People and Peri-natal clients and are accessible for case consultation.
The Step 3.5 service provision uses enhanced therapeutic offers including CBT/EMDR/counselling/CBASP for people whose clinical presentation shows more complexity. Alongside this the Step 3.5 service offers Psycho-Dynamic Therapy and Psycho Sexual Therapy.

Job Summary
Working in the Stockport Healthy Minds Service;
- To provide brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) assessment and therapy to service users.
- To provide advice, consultation and supervision as required to other mental health professionals.
- To participate in ongoing service developments within the service as and when possible

**Key Requirements of the Person Specification**:
HIT qualification/CBT diploma or equivalent with post qualification experience delivering CBT for people with common mental health problems
Accreditation with the BABCP or working towards
Main

**Responsibilities**:
Clinical
- To carry out the assessment, formulation and treatment planning for service users referred to the service.
- To provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to service users
- To attend relevant meetings in relation to service user group and to give advice on referrals appropriate for CBT.
- To work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans to service users and their multi-disciplinary professional team
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management of service users

Teaching, Supervision and Training
- In common with all qualified therapists, to receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified clinician and where appropriate other senior colleagues.
- To develop skills in professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to trainees from recognised university professional training courses when appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff in areas of post holder’s competence.
- To contribute to Borough and Trust wide training initiatives.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the operational policy, procedures and protocols for the service.

Research and Service Evaluation
- To contribute to the provision of data for service evaluation
- To ensure that clinical interventions carried out by self and trainees/ supervisees are informed by reliable and up to date research and that service users are offered treatments with the best-proven efficacy.
- To disseminate recent advances in psychological knowledge/therapies enabling psychologically informed work within the wider service to be based on good practice guidelines, using sound theoretical frameworks and national recommendations.

Information Resources
- To compile accurate statistical information as required, and to maintain records of clinical activity.
- To ensure the submission of clinical activity data, as required by the Trust

Professional
- To ensure that clinical notes and correspondence are maintained in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and meet the highest standards of clinical record keeping in accordance with the professional code of practice of your core mental health professional and the BABCP.
- To be a member of Stockport Psychological Therapies Service and

to act within the governance framework developed by the Service and by the Trust Lead for Psychological Therapies.
- To observe the provision of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and the Health Professions Council if appropriate or other professional body.
- To maintain an up to date knowledge of all relevant national legislation and local policies and proced