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Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
| Posting date: | 27 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: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon, BR3 3BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0503 |
Summary
Job Purpose: The primary purpose of this role is to contribute to the continued development and provision of a very high quality therapy service to meet the needs of the Croydon Service User, in line with the service specifications determined by the commissioners. Senior therapists are experienced psychological therapists with extensive experience working within an IAPT service, who make up the management team and work closely with the service lead, playing a key role in supporting, inspiring and guiding the clinical work of their teams, with a focus on continuing service improvement. They will lead a team and usually also take a lead role within the service holding responsibility for aspects. To support the service leads by sharing responsibility of the day to day running of the service To work collaboratively with the service leads to implement service developments / new initiatives To support the clinical lead in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team To work autonomously as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To develop and model IAPT protocols and ways of working To provide high quality specialist CBT supervision To support supervisees in meeting performance targets as defined by the service, and to meet personal performance targets set in agreement with service lead To ensure high quality training placements for IAPT trainees (HI, PWP or Assistant Psychologist) In addition: To deliver highly specialist medium-term cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients referred to the service To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development To continue to undertake advanced and highly specialist continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy.