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IAPT High Intensity Trainee Barnet | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 24 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2024 |
| Location: | Edgware, HA8 0AD |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6401410/306-BEH-2040 |
Summary
Candidates will have experience of working in mental health settings and will have eithera registered graduate qualification in nursing, social work or occupational therapy or evidence of using the career framework of training in mental health and experience and of working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression as a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
All positions will be offered at pay band 6 on a 12-month fixed term contract basis. The post-holder will work in the service for 3 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme for the other two days.
This is a training role within the NHS Talking Therapies Services (formerly known as IAPT). The post-holder will work within the Barnet Talking Therapies service providing high intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post – holder to provide a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post- holder will work in the service for 3 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme for the other two days with Royal Holloway University.
This post will report to and be supported by the Barnet Talking Therapies Clinical Team Leads.
• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
• Assess clients for suitability for CBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for a trainee therapists to refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
• 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.
• Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
• Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
• 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.
• Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post.
• Apply learning form the training programme in practice
• Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.
• Working in service a minimum 2 days a week. A late shift ay be required dependent on client need.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
• Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP, BABCP), 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).
• 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.
This advert closes on Monday 8 Jul 2024