CBT Therapist - High Intensity (IAPT)
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £42,168.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42168.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Location: | Bexleyheath, DA6 8DS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0433-24-0015 |
Summary
Key responsibilities: Clinical 1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service. 2. Conduct assessments and therapy over the telephone, telemedicine and face to face. 3. Offer High Intensity treatment in individual and group settings (as agreed) 4. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary. 5. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for people attending the service. 6. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language. 7. Take responsibility for promoting access to the services provided and the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapies in the peripheral settings where the therapist works. For example, therapists working within GP Surgeries will be expected to attend GP Practice meetings and develop and maintain professional relationships with members of the primary care team. They will be expected to promote the service by ensuring that there are readily available promotional material for both members of the public and members of the primary care team. 8. Liaise with other psychological therapy services in order to work jointly to improve provision of psychological services to local residents. 9. Plan appropriate packages of care for each service user. Liaise as appropriate with other professionals within the service and externally to effectively communicate your assessment and facilitate transfer of care to an appropriate professional. 10. Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including referrals to relevant secondary care services and child and adult safeguarding services) 11. Elicit outcome data from people using services and their carers. Use the TALKING THERAPIESus system to record clinical contact details, clinical records, outcome data, and passage though the care pathway. 12. Ensure that people under your care are cared for appropriately under the stepped care framework as currently in use within the service. 13. Adhere to the operations manual and other relevant protocols and procedures as directed by your line manager. 14. Take personal (unprompted) responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity relating to the number of therapy contact hours per week. 15. Actively contribute to and support the integration of clinical governance in the service within your own area of work and contribute to service clinical governance process in a specific area of work under the direction and supervision of a Senior Therapist. 16. Develop an area of enhanced (specialist) clinical work (e.g. PTSD, OCD, Long Term Health Conditions, Perinatal, Eating Disorders, Social phobia etc). It is expected that the areas of specialist work will shift in focus over time to reflect service need and your need to continuing professional development. 17. Carry out clinical audits of aspects of the CBT service as directed, including feedback from people who have used the service, analyse and feedback to the service verbally and in writing. Training and Supervision 18. Attend clinical supervision in group or individual format within service. 19. Participate in peer supervision with professional colleagues. 20. Develop and engage in your own CPD, including active engagement in and use of clinical supervision of your own therapy. 21. Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the TALKING THERAPIES approved training/ workshops in line with identified professional objectives. 22. Support peer learning through attending and contributing to journal clubs and other in-house service CPD events 23. Once suitable supervision training and experience has been gained, supervise other staff as directed Professional 24. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times. 25. Co-ordinate and liaise between different staff groups within Mind in Bexley. 26. Support the CBT Service Public & Professional Educational functions by contributing to professional education program under the supervision of senior members of the department. 27. Support the CBT Service Public & Professional Educational functions by delivering interactive psycho-education within a CBT framework to large groups of Service Users under the supervision of senior members of the department. 28. Exercise personal responsibility for the systematic clinical governance of your own professional practice. 29. Proactively take responsibility for attending supervision, case management and line management regularly, participate in objective setting, performance reviews and respond to agreed objectives. 30. Be aware of and comply with company policies, procedures and standards of service 31. Promote and contribute to the development and maintenance of a healthy therapeutic culture within the team and amongst colleagues across the service and Service Users. Management 32. Manage an aspect of the service at the level of direct service delivery. This might include one or more (depending on available time) of: co-ordinating educational material, keeping a central resource file of clinical resources for general use, ensuring questionnaire accuracy, quality and accessibility, acting as the key liaison with an identified group of professionals. 33. Once suitable managerial experience has been gained, line manage other staff as directed. 33. Contribute to policy or service developments in line with clinical governance and service objectives. Communication and Relationship Skills: Provide and receive highly complex information (related to mental health and CBT) to individual, groups of service users, relatives, carers, members of the public and professionals. Develop and maintain close professional therapeutic relationships with Service Users using advanced psychotherapy skills to bring about lasting psychological change. Provide consultation to and communicate as appropriate with external agencies (including housing, police, local authority, employers, employment support workers etc). Proactively develop robust professional relationships with the Primary Care team (e.g. General Practice staff) supporting the active integration of CBT provision into primary care. Develop and maintain good professional relationships with mental health workers in primary and secondary care. Knowledge, Training and Experience: Have specialist theoretical and practical clinical knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Have knowledge, training and experience in disorders common in primary and secondary mental health care sufficient to identify, provide preliminary education to the Service User and direct the Service User to clinical resources where CBT is not the optimum intervention. Analytical and Judgemental Skills: Gather a range of facts and contexts, relevant to the Service User(s) clinical care. Analyse and weigh the relative importance of the factors to form an understanding of the Service User(s) difficulties and relate these to the range of psychological and other treatment options available. Form a judgement between the relative utilities of the treatment options and the Service Users preferences. To collate and analyse clinical data from your own Service Users within the overall framework of the required data output of the service, to analyse this data with the intention of: (a) identifying and minimising risk, (b) optimising clinical effectiveness, (c) optimising service efficiency. To then, in conjunction with your Clinical Supervisor, devise a plan that addresses these components within the immediate context of where you deliver your service (e.g. the realities and culture of the local GP practices where you operate) and the broader operational framework of the service and have the skill to implement the agreed plan in an iterative manner. Contribute to the monitoring, review and audit of the work in this new service. Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the Service by identifying and acting on areas of concern and supporting senior clinicians who are taking the lead in designated areas of responsibility. Planning and Organisational Skills: Co-ordinate the activities of yourself to balance the conflicting: needs of Service Users, demands of the different areas of service provision (e.g. the different GP surgeries), your own continuing professional development, and central service provision of the organisation. This will involve sudden changes in plans to respond to clinical emergencies on a frequent but not regular basis. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care: Assess Service User(s), prepare a psychotherapy care plan and deliver specialist CBT to individuals and to groups of service users. Support other clinicians in the delivery of individual and group CBT. Hold your own caseload and respond to Service User crises as appropriate. Maintain appropriate confidentiality.