Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Band 8a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Therapist | Step 2 Lead
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Job Overview
The Community Living Well Service (Kensington & Chelsea Talking Therapies) is looking for a qualified and experienced Senior Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to take on the role of Low Intensity/Step 2 Team Lead.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to provide Clinical Supervision and Line Management for a defined caseload of staff. In addition, they will oversee aspects of auditing and reporting, and ongoing training and development of Step 2 work within the teams. The job will have a particular focus on the further development of Step 2 pathways in Kensington and Chelsea Talking Therapies and the development of Low Intensity work within the service, and the candidate should be passionate about the development of Step 2 work within IAPT services.
The service has close links with and provides placements for trainees from all the regional training courses and there would be opportunities to manage and supervise PWP trainees, Trainee Clinical or Counselling Psychologists, High Intensity Trainees and others as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Community Living Well Talking Therapies runs within the national Talking Therapies program and provides a range of CBT and counselling-based interventions for people with common mental health problems. The service consists of Step 2 and 3 CBT teams and Step 3 counselling. Kensington and Chelsea also works in partnership with primary care well-being services (employment support, navigators and peer support). The service offers extended hours clinics (8am-8pm), and successful applicants would be expected to support this service provision.
The team hubs are based in North Kensington and South Chelsea. The service provides face-to-face appointments, and all staff are required to spend a proportion of their working week on site. We are well-resourced with ICT and the services promote CPD and ongoing clinical learning opportunities. The staff team provides services within primary health care centres across the Borough as well as in other community and voluntary sector sites and the post holder will be expected to work across these sites when necessary.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
We are looking for someone who has enthusiasm for working in a primary care setting, is adaptable, enjoys variety, and is able to work both independently as well as within a team context. In order to be shortlisted for this post, applicants must be BABCP accredited and HCPC registered (where appropriate).
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Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an IAPT service.
- Experience of operational management and service development within an IAPT service.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of physical and mental health conditions and across care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working in adult mental health services
- Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist / HI CBT Therapist, or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist.
- Experience of supervising trainees within a clinical health service.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of staff from a range of clinical backgrounds.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of organizing services to meet commissioning targets and operational objectives.
- Experience of the application of CBT to different cultural contexts
- Experience of carrying out psychometric assessments
- Experience of working with people with long-term physical health conditions.
- Experience of working in peri-natal mental health.
- Experience of working with older adults.
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BABCP, BPS, or Doctoral level training in counselling psychology (or equivalent - masters level plus completed post qualification training)
- Post-qualification training in Cognitive Behavioural Treatment (CBT) recognized as leading to accreditation
- HCPC registration, if a practitioner psychologist
- Fully or provisionally accredited with the BABCP
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Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-qualification training in specialized areas of CBT provision e.g working in perinatal mental health, with long-term medical conditions or with older adults
Others
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Post-Qualification practice of, and skills in, CBT and full accreditation as a CBT Therapist
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and BABCP.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists and IAPT practitioners.
- Proven ability in carrying out clinical audits
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized Talking Therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised Talking Therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Experience of leading and carrying out research projects and interpreting data using statistical analyses
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