Job summary
Job Title: Cognitive BehaviourTherapist
Grade: Band 7
Trust: Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Location: Willenhall Parkcare centre, Coventry, CV3 3DG
Hours: Monday - Friday
Main duties of the job
Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are rated Good in their most recentCQC report as well as being recognised as a Global Digital Exemplar. The Trustworks across 101 locations including 5 hospitals, delivering community andmental health services to 1 million people. The Trust also has exciting plansto transform care for mental health, Musculo-skeletal conditions (MSK),learning disabilities and autism. This includes a brand-new state-of-the-artRainbow Unit, providing facilities for inpatients with a learning disabilityand/ or autism
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
Toformulate and implement plans for CBT and/or third wave therapy and/ormanagement of a clients complex mental health needs.
Tobe responsible for implementing CBT and/or third wave with individuals, carers,families, and groups by adjusting and refining model based
psychologicalformulations and interventions.
Tocontribute to new methods of service delivery as appropriate, in order toencourage optimal opportunities for access to services for a vulnerable clientgroup.
Toexercise professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment ofcomplex clients from psychological therapy.
Tocontribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework ofunderstanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service area forwhich the post-holder is responsible, across all appropriate settings andagencies.
Toundertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and toprovide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessmentand risk management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Current registration with Professional Body appropriate to qualifications
Desirable
2. In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
3. Relevant Qualifications
4. Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Experience
Essential
5. Knowledge of CBT
6. Knowledge of psychological theory and practice relevant to the perinatal period
7. Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management