Job overview
Brent Talking Therapies is located in the diverse London borough of Brent. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior CBT Therapist/Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist to join our committed team. We are looking for a qualified and experienced therapist to take on clinical, supervisory, managerial, and service development related responsibilities. You must have substantial experience of working as a CBT therapist within Step 3 of a talking therapies service (IAPT), and experience of providing formal clinical supervision to qualified clinicians and trainees. We would particularly welcome clinicians who have experience of line management and service development/quality improvement projects.
You must have good knowledge of the talking therapies programme and have demonstrated high standards of communication skills, problem solving and have developed good professional working relationships with staff, service users, partners and the general public. Candidates must have current BABCP therapist accreditation as an essential requirement in order to apply for this role.
Main duties of the job
You will provide expert supervision and support for qualified CBT Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees working within the service and contribute to provision of senior clinician cover for the service along with other members of the senior leadership team for duty and evening clinics. You will have experience of providing effective line management, an ability to provide clinical leadership within the Step 3 team and contribute to the development of this team within the service.
You will carry a clinical caseload and contribute to and provide highly specialist assessment, formulation and interventions to clients using a stepped care model in line with the national programme and latest NICE guidance for psychological interventions. You will have had extensive experience of working across Mental Health Services with a range of client groups with moderate as well as complex severe and enduring mental health problems.
The post holder will receive regular clinical and managerial supervision and support and join the senior leadership team within the service. The service has wider links with other Talking Therapies services within CNWL Foundation Trust and the Trust-wide clinical psychology services. We have good links with and have trainees from all the Regional training courses and there would be opportunities to mentor and supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and CBT Trainees.
Working for our organisation
The catchment area of the post is the London borough of Brent. The main hub for the service is based at Fairfields House in Kingsbury and there is a satellite hub at Bell House in Willesden Green. You will be required to work across both hubs and in other parts of the borough, e.g. GP surgeries and community settings.
We operate an agile working policy where staff combine remote working and being on-site to deliver face-to-face appointments and other service commitments that require a hub-based presence. The post-holder will work full-time hours and may be required to work at any times between 8am and 8pm on weekdays including an evening clinic as required by the service.
Benefits of working for Brent include:
1. Brent Talking Therapies Service has close links with the CNWL Talking Therapies teams and there are opportunities for further development.
2. We are able to offer training in other models of care such as BCT and MBCT.
3. Our clinicians also have opportunities to develop in their area of interest, e.g. LTC, perinatal, young adults, older adults, outreach/community work, and LGBTQ+
4. 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
5. NHS discount
6. Opportunities for career progression
7. If you would like to see what it's like to work for CNWL please have a look at https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
6. To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders.
7. To understand the role of physical treatments for complex mental health disorders, and to offer appropriate advice to the patient, carers and clinicians in the light of such understanding.
8. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
9. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group, such as the voluntary sector, primary care and staff in physical healthcare settings.
10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
11. To act as a care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a psychological care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
12. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
13. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service, where appropriate.
14. To be responsible for the coordination and management of Departmental Waiting Lists
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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