CBT Therapist in Sutton Early Intervention Service

3 weeks ago

Mitcham, United Kingdom South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

It is an exciting time to join our trust, as we are preparing to implement the trust's community transformation plans in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, to improve access and provision for clients with severe mental health difficulties. In doing so we will be strengthening relationships with primary care and developing new links with the voluntary sector.

You would work as part of a supportive team of clinical psychologists and CBT therapists. Experience working with psychosis is desirable but not essential. This is a full-time post in Sutton Early Intervention for Psychosis team for a CBT therapist to expand our provision of psychological therapies to service users who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. We will consider applicants in the final stages of their CBT training.

Please note it is a trust requirement for working in secondary care that applicants are qualified health care clinical practitioners with a core profession in one of the following: nursing, occupational therapy, social work, counselling/clinical psychology

Main duties of the job

You will provide cognitive behaviour therapy to patients referred to the Sutton Early Intervention Team. This will include providing specialist cognitive behavioural therapy assessment and therapy for people who have experienced a first episode of psychosis as well as other difficulties such as anxiety, depression and trauma. There will also be opportunities to develop experience in family interventions for psychosis.

The role is dynamic and will require you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, attend MDT meetings and to offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to other members of the Sutton EIS team.

About us

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide specialist CBT assessments of clients referred to the early intervention service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and semi-structured interviews. 2. To design and implement plans for the formal CBT treatment and/or management of a clients problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of individual, family and group interventions based upon evidence of treatment efficacy, and which rely primarily upon CBT models. 4. To evaluate and make decisions about CBT treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic CBT models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. 5. To engage in the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team. To provide specialist CBT advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 6. To contribute directly and indirectly to a CBT based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. 7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on CBT approaches to aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 8. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment and CBT treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of treatment.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

BABCP Accreditation as CBT practitioner (or eligible and seeking accreditation) Post graduate Diploma/Masters in CBT A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, clinical/counselling psychology

Desirable

Trained in Cognitive Behavioural Family Interventions for Psychosis Post graduate diploma/certificate in CBT for psychosis

Exprience

Essential

Experience of assessment and treatment of people with mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity, using evidence based psychological therapies, particularly CBT Experience of providing individual CBT treatments and in facilitating therapeutic/psycho-educational groups Experience with routine outcome monitoring Experience in establishing diagnosis/psychological formulation Experience of meeting agreed/specified service targets

Desirable

Experience of working in secondary mental health care in the NHS Experience of working in Early Intervention or with people who have experienced an episode of psychosis Experience of multi-disciplinary working and the ethos and model of EIS Lived experience of mental health problems and the capacity to use that experience to the benefit of patient care Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Skilled in the use of CBT assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Advanced practitioner skills in CBT Knowledge of assessment for CBT Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care Skills in the assessment and evaluation of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology

Desirable

High-level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of the psychological therapies for first episode psychosis

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