Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £56,276.00 to £63,176.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56276.00 - £63176.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9294-25-0356 |
Summary
To identify the nature, severity and complexity of adult patients mental health problems, and to advise both patients and their referrers on appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other highly specialist services and/or non-statutory services where appropriate. To formulate and implement plans for the intensive psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy. To make appropriate use of specialist assessments of patients mental health, including structured and semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, rating scales and guided inquiry methods. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other clinicians in Secondary Care on psychological aspects of risk assessment, including the risk of self-harm. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple or family. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the efficiency of all aspects of the service, including assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit. 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 their treatment within the national service. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit.