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Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT Therapist) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L8 7SS |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7033031/350-CC7033031 |
Summary
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic, motivated and flexible qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practitioners to join our Perinatal Service.
Applicants need to be accredited with the BABCP.
This is an exciting time to join our team; we are expanding our service so that we are able to reach more people across Liverpool & Sefton, with an aim to deliver increased therapeutic support.
The post holder will provide high intensity interventions - initially cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in the perinatal period.
To accept referrals and agreed protocols within the service and work as part of an MDT.
Adhere to agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contracts offered and clinical sessions carried out per week, in order to minimise working times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
To work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the specialist perinatal service.
2. Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions in line with the specialist perinatal psychological model of care.
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 women and birthing people in the perinatal period.
5. Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties, including bonding and attachment difficulties.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of women and birthing people 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, and all the while keeping the baby, couple and family in mind.
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 multi-disciplinary team ensuring stepped formulation driven care is delivered to maintain a matched-care approach.
13. Assess and integrate issues surrounding the wider context of people's lives 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 Parent-Infant Mental Health Services, Maternity, Health Visiting, 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Mar 2025