Cognitive Behavioural Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA4 4RR |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6232216/351-SPS1031-AT-C |
Summary
• To provide high quality CBT to children, young people and adults who present with an eating disorder, including those with a degree of complexity.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including specialist nurses, psychologists/ psychological therapists, specialist GP/ medics and dietitians.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedure.
• To provide clinical supervision and mentoring to cognitive behavioural therapists and trainees, and other members of the MDT as required.
• To deliver a CBT service in accordance with NICE guidelines, meeting key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
• To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to non-CBT colleagues and to non-professional carers.
• To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
• To work with the Team Leaders and Senior Clinical Psychologists/Lead Clinicians to support managing waiting times, prevalence and recovery.
• To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
• To take lead CBT role in a designated areas of work.
• To provide an element of clinical leadership at team level, taking a role in service development, including engaging and working with other agencies.
This post will be based in the Bay Locality, Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal & Barrow.
You should be an excellent communicator and team player, with the successful applicant joining a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Dietitians, specialist therapists and medics.
The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality psychosocial assessment and specialist CBT intervention to children, young people and adults with eating disorders. You will contribute to the broader aims of the service through joint working, consultation, training, supervision and service development. You will be joining the service at a real time of development and will be able to help influence change going forward.
You will benefit from an enthusiastic, hard-working and supportive peer group of CBT Therapists and other modality therapists/ Clinical Psychologists across the service. The post-holder will receive regular supervision and professional support from an experienced therapist and contact with other relevant specialist interest groups would be encouraged.
Applications will be welcome from suitably qualified CBT Therapists with BABCP registration.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Apr 2024
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including specialist nurses, psychologists/ psychological therapists, specialist GP/ medics and dietitians.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedure.
• To provide clinical supervision and mentoring to cognitive behavioural therapists and trainees, and other members of the MDT as required.
• To deliver a CBT service in accordance with NICE guidelines, meeting key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
• To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to non-CBT colleagues and to non-professional carers.
• To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
• To work with the Team Leaders and Senior Clinical Psychologists/Lead Clinicians to support managing waiting times, prevalence and recovery.
• To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
• To take lead CBT role in a designated areas of work.
• To provide an element of clinical leadership at team level, taking a role in service development, including engaging and working with other agencies.
This post will be based in the Bay Locality, Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal & Barrow.
You should be an excellent communicator and team player, with the successful applicant joining a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Dietitians, specialist therapists and medics.
The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality psychosocial assessment and specialist CBT intervention to children, young people and adults with eating disorders. You will contribute to the broader aims of the service through joint working, consultation, training, supervision and service development. You will be joining the service at a real time of development and will be able to help influence change going forward.
You will benefit from an enthusiastic, hard-working and supportive peer group of CBT Therapists and other modality therapists/ Clinical Psychologists across the service. The post-holder will receive regular supervision and professional support from an experienced therapist and contact with other relevant specialist interest groups would be encouraged.
Applications will be welcome from suitably qualified CBT Therapists with BABCP registration.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Apr 2024