Job description
Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
BABCP accreditation required
Full-time or Part-time
PAYE or Umbrella
Hi Intensity – Anxiety and Depression
FULLY REMOTE
JOB SUMMARY
1. To provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service for anxiety and depression to clients from the NHS Talking Therapies service. This involves providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, within one or more psychological therapy models specified by the NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression Manual.
2. To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. It will involve supervision of other colleagues including trainee High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, as well as trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.
3. The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
CLINICAL
* To provide specialist psychological therapy assessments with clients referred to the NHS Talking Therapies service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, 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.
* To provide at least one NICE recommended psychological therapy for anxiety disorders and/or depression
* 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.
* To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon relevant explanatory models. To be able to use a specific psychological therapy for anxiety and/or depression, in line with NICE guidance, at a specialist level in assessments and interventions.
* 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.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
* 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.
* 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. To work with clients who are at current risk of suicide or self-harm.
* 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.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To assess and deliver highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
* To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
* To provide medico-legal and other reports where appropriate.
* To attend serious incident (SI) meetings as needed.
* To work clinically with interpreters.
WORKFORCE
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* The majority of referrals to the NHS Talking Therapies service come via GPs. Other referral sources are self-referrals or via other agencies.
* The post holder will receive weekly individual clinical supervision from a High Intensity Therapist qualified to supervise in the modality of therapy being delivered. In addition they will receive line management supervision once a month.