CBT Therapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunityto be a psychological therapist within an interdisciplinary pain team. You willprovide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and interventionsas part of an interdisciplinary pain team, to individuals, groups and viaehealth. You may also have the opportunity to supervise other members of theteam.

Main duties of the job

You will use your knowledge,experience, and brilliant skills to provide advice and consultation onpsychological aspects of pain management to other health professionals and toadvance students and colleagues knowledge and practice of psychological theoriesand principles. You will proactively develop and promote a positive and dynamicimage and culture and will be key in fostering productive relationships withkey stakeholders.

About us

Connect Healthis the largest and most experienced independent community healthcare providerin the UK encompassing mental health, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, tier-2 MSK(musculoskeletal), chronic pain, long Covid, First Contact Practitioners (FCP)and rheumatology services, serving over 375k NHS patients pa across 29 NHS ICBs(Integrated Care Boards).

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be registered with BABCPas a CBT Therapistand will have experience of working within a physicalhealth setting delivering individual and group interventions. You willpreferably have good knowledge of the current evidence base in relation topsychological approaches to pain management. We are particularly keen torecruit an enthusiastic and high calibre candidate with interest in Acceptanceand Commitment Therapy.

It is an exciting time to bejoining Connect Health pain services, as we continue to grow and develop ourinterdisciplinary pain services across the UK. Connect Health are deliveringthe Flippin Pain public health campaign and were highly rated by the NHSChange Challenge panel for their ehealth pain innovations in response toCOVID-19.

Our service in Durham andDarlingtonis a community Persistent Pain service that provides a singlepoint of access for NHS patients enabling a seamless and efficient patientjourney. You will be part of a large, dynamic multidisciplinary team. Thecommunity service design allows clinicians to work together to deliver seamlessand evidence-based care for patients and enables inter-disciplinary learning.

The successful candidate willdeliver face to face individual assessments andtherapy sessions as well as group Pain Management Programme sessions alongsidecolleagues. Some clinical work will be done remotely through telephone andvideo consultations as well as via digital platforms.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post graduate Diploma in CBT and registration and accreditation with BABCP

Desirable

Post-Qualification training in a psychological theory/model that is applicable to the area of pain management

Experience

Essential

Experience of psychological/psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and primary care Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems Experience of working within a physical health setting, providing individual and group interventions Experience of working in interdisciplinary persistent pain services Experience of running pain management groups Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS, HCPC or BACP

Desirable

Experience of the application of clinical/health/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts Experience of providing clinical supervision or consultation Experience of developing services

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