The North Stoke Community CAMHS Team is recruiting a full‑time Band 7 CBT Therapist.
Success Criteria
* Manage the referral pathway and develop the pathway to meet the four‑week wait target.
* Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
* Ensure that each referral is allocated to the most appropriate CBT therapist or professional in a timely way to meet the waiting time targets.
* Ensure fidelity to the CBT model, ensuring timely intervention, treatment and discharge.
* Support the embedding of CYP‑IAPT principles within practice and within the team.
* Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service’s referral protocols, and when appropriate to signpost clients onto more relevant services or back to the referral source as necessary.
* Carry out specialist assessments, highly complex formulations, treatment plans and interventions. Clinical work will be with individuals, groups, couples and families across all sectors of care, including clients frequently presenting severe and/or highly complex difficulties.
* Provide specialist evidence‑based supervision to NHS and partner agency staff in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire and the Region.
* Provide role model and clinical leadership in relation to the delivery of high quality mental health care.
* Maintain and develop knowledge of advances in mental health practice or theory and act as the catalyst for innovation.
Benefits
Flexible working schedules are available.
Diversity & Inclusion
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We welcome applications from all under‑represented groups, including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities. The Trust is also committed to the Step into Health scheme and encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
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