Senior CBT Therapist/LTC Lead
| Posting date: | 22 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,490.00 to £66,239.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59490.00 - £66239.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, NW9 0PS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-0677 |
Summary
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings. Clinical:1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account boththeoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.6. To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders.7. To understand the role of physical treatments for complex mental health disorders, and to offer appropriate advice to the patient, carers and clinicians in the light of such understanding.8. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to otherprofessionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 9. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group, such as the voluntary sector, primary care and staff in physical healthcare settings.10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.11. To act as a care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a psychological care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.12. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. 13. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service, where appropriate.14. To be responsible for the coordination and management of Departmental Waiting Lists