High Intensity Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2024 |
| Location: | Merseyside, WA9 3DE |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6385643/350-CC6385643 |
Summary
We are recruiting High intensity therapists to join our Talking Therapies (IAPT) service. Specifically, we are looking for those with a CBT qualification enabling them to practice in Talking Therapies services, and must hold accreditation with the BABCP.
This is an exciting time to join our services; we are growing as a team so that we are able to reach more people across the town and engage them in therapeutic support.
High intensity therapists equip people with the tools and techniques they need to overcome complex problems related to anxiety and depression.
You’ll make a difference to people's quality of life by providing a range of evidence-based interventions. You’ll be based in an NHS Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT), working with those aged 16+ from a variety of backgrounds.
You’ll work with people with depression and anxiety disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The service offers a hybrid approach to working. This means therapy sessions will take place both face to face (either in person or remotely via video platforms) and via telephone where clinically appropriate.
Your role will be to assess a service user’s suitability for evidence-based psychological interventions, formulating and implementing treatment and evaluating progress. Once treatment begins, you’ll meet with service users regularly, usually weekly, to measure and review progress and tailor treatment accordingly. A clinical supervisor will support you in your work to help you engage in self-reflection, seek and respond to feedback, and develop your professional knowledge and skills.
You'll have undertaken formal training in the therapy or therapies that you deliver in NHS Talking Therapies, and will be accredited by the relevant professional body (BABCP for CBT therapists).
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To work as a qualified high intensity therapist, you will have undertaken training in a one of the high intensity therapies such as:
· Cognitive behavioural therapy
· Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression
· Couples therapy for depression
· Brief dynamic interpersonal therapy
· Counselling for depression
· Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
· Behavioural couples therapy
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILTIES
Clinical
1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
2. Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions.
3. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent, as necessary.
4. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
5. Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service.
7. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
8. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
9. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
10. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
11. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
12. Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
13. Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.
14. Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
15. Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.
16. Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals/ individuals/ groups/ committees across Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.
Training and Supervision
17. Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the IAPT/Talking Therapies approved supervision training.
18. Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service.
19. After completion of supervision training, supervise staff in the service.
Professional
20. Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g., BABCP, BACP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/ guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g., NHS plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
21. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
22. Be aware of and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies (CBT / CfD / IPT / DIT / EMDR).
23. Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
24. Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager.
25. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
26. Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/ developments.
27. Attend relevant conferences/ workshops in line with identified professional objectives.
28. Participate in service improvement by highlighting issues and implementing changes in practice.
Advisor/ Liaison
29. Provide an advisory service on matters related to the practice and delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to individuals/ groups/ committees across the Mental Health Trust, Primary Care Trust and
other voluntary agencies.
30. Promote and maintain links with Primary Care and Secondary Care Staff to help co-ordinate the provision of an effective Psychological Therapies Service.
General
31. To contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
32. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and procedures in relation to Mental Health and Primary Care Services.
33. All employees have a duty and responsibility for their own health and safety and the health of safety of colleagues, patients and the general public.
34. All employees have a responsibility and a legal obligation to ensure that information processed for both patients and staff is kept accurate, confidential, secure and in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) and Security and Confidentiality Policies.
35. It is the responsibility of all staff that they do not abuse their official position for personal gain, to seek advantage of further private business or other interests in the course of their official duties.
Applicants need to be accredited with the BABCP, or able to achieve accreditation within a year of their employment start date.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Jun 2024