[High Salary] Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

JOB TITLE: Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

DEPARTMENT: Adult Community Mental Health Team

BAND AND SALARY: Band 7

TEMP/PERM (END DATE IF FIXED TERM): Permanent contract

There has never been a more exciting time to join community mental health care. We are transforming how individuals access mental health care, there is a lot of intervention in mental health and wellbeing, and we want to invest in all tiers of care. The Community Mental Health Teams are located within the Adult Community Mental Health Division and our mission is to provide high quality psychological services to adults who live in Lincolnshire and are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

The East Community Mental Health Services are seeking an enthusiastic Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our Louth Community Mental Health Team. Being fully embedded in the multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will be supporting the team, and our wider locality teams to embed psychological mindedness across the MDT. As such this post will involve liaising with other professionals across the MDT.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will provide assessment and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a range of mental health related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective within the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT).

The roles will be supported by the East Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist, alongside the CBT supervisor. Regular management and clinical supervision will be provided by qualified supervisors. The service has a strong commitment towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD), staff wellbeing and providing quality services.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Job responsibilities

To contribute to discussions the MDT regarding CBT interventions and adhering to the departments allocation protocols, and signpost clients who require other services on to the relevant service as necessary.

To assess, formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.

Attend meetings relating to allocations or clients in treatment, where appropriate.

Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.

Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.

To work closely with other members of the team ensuring effective MDT working in response to patient need.

To attend clinical supervision.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Post graduate diploma in CBP and Accreditation (or working towards accreditation) with BABCP
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy

Experience

- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including working with experiences of trauma and abuse.
- Experience in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, as a professional care co-ordinator and within the context of multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, Neuropsychology, learning disability.

Skills

- Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions
- Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders.
- Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels. Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual client needs and abilities.
- Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with service users.
- Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams.
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to service users, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust.
- The ability to frequently sit in a restricted position for long periods during appointments driving between work bases, including at night and in hazardous driving conditions and working at a computer.
- The ability to maintain prolonged and intense concentration and to multi-task during client meetings, and when compiling reports.
- Ability to cope with highly distressing or very emotional circumstances relating to clinical cases.
- The ability to deal with aggressive and challenging behaviour and verbal aggression.
- Willingness to work in diverse settings including hospitals, clinics, and clients' homes.
- Willingness to work in conditions where there may be exposure to cigarette smoke and unsanitary conditions.
- Ability to contain and deal with organisational stress.
- Able to work independently
- Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
- Research, evaluation and audit skills.
- Evidence of continuing Professional development

Special requirements

- Able to travel for business purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Windsor House

Windsor Road, Fairfield Industrial Estate

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