Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

2 weeks ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Full time

8a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

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 Psychological Therapy Services and across Planned Treatment and Recovery Teams 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.

The Candidate

To succeed in this role you will have (See attached Person spec for complete experience list):

  • Extensive post-qualification experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) for adults and older 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.
  • A core mental health professional qualification and membership of the appropriate statutory professional regulatory body (NMC, HCPC).
  • An MSc in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy
  • Full practitioner accreditation with the BABCP
  • 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.

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, Decider skills 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 across LPT sites, adhering to all the Trust's standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

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.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

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 flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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