Job overview
Our colleagues at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals put patients at the heart of everything they do every day; and in our flexible, compassionate, forward thinking psychology service, we are just as passionate about supporting those colleagues in the amazing jobs they do. If you are a BABCP registered Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, we need you to join us to complement our team, who are already achieving great things supporting our workforce in challenging times for the NHS.
Our service delivers clinical assessment and therapy, mindfulness programmes, mental health drop-ins, incident support, psychological first aid and access to short term therapy. We also offer training in CBT skills and group pathways, including a managing emotions and relationships pathway based on DBT training, which has been very popular with attendees and achieved promising outcomes to date.
Feedback from service users and other stakeholders is overwhelmingly positive about our service offer, and we are leading the way in mental health provision, with published case studies and articles about our service.
Main duties of the job
We would love you to join us and help us deliver and further develop this valuable service. In particular we are keen to reduce waiting times for colleagues seeking brief and high intensity therapy (such as for work-related trauma) by providing psychological assessment and therapy (generally 4- 12 sessions). Additional duties may include, providing supervision, delivering group sessions, and leading on bespoke support for teams requiring support.
If you have experience working in Occupational Health, you may be particularly attracted to this role, but it's not essential - any experience of working with adults is likely to be relevant. It’s your passion and enthusiasm for the job you do which will really make the difference! We won’t shy away from saying that this can be a challenging role as we support colleagues with a wide range of difficulties, including clinical incidents at work, past trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, personality and relationship difficulties as well as physical health conditions. However, the job role is very rewarding, as we provide clients with resources and support that enable them to make significant progress with the issues that have led them to therapy.
Working for our organisation
Your development is important to us and there will be opportunities to develop skills and access training; and you will of course have your own clinical supervision and personal development plan. We are a welcoming and supportive team of Psychologists, CBT Therapists, counsellors, psychological wellbeing assistants and administrators, and we value and practice self care and compassion.
The service is generally weekdays, 9am to 5pm, although some colleagues work compressed hours and offer early and late sessions. There is a mixture of on site and remote working options.
If this sounds like the role you have been waiting for we would love to hear from you. Please contact for an informal conversation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide specialist psychological assessment, intervention, advice and consultation working with individual colleagues (clients), teams, managers and senior leaders. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and frameworks.
2. To contribute to the monitoring, audit, evaluation and development of the service as directed by the service lead.
3. Contribute to leadership within the team by providing clinical supervision to team members, taking the role of duty clinician on a rota, and supporting with line management tasks if required.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
4. Masters or postgraduate diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy
5. BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist
6. Proficiency in range of therapy models including trauma-focussed CBT
7. Proficiency in knowledge of adult psychological theory and practice.
Desirable criteria
8. Training in a field relevant to staff psychological wellbeing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
9. Experience in direct work with individuals experiencing complex psychological problems in an adult context.
10. Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients in adult services
11. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Desirable criteria
12. Experience of working within an occupational health environment
13. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision