Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
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Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist - Band 7
NHS LLR Enhanced High Intensity Psychological Therapy Service (LLR EHIPT) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience. This post offers the opportunity to work within a newly formed, dynamic, and innovative service, that provides high quality CBT for patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological services. This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients. Now operating in its third year; the service offers an amazing opportunity for the right candidate. You would join a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplined team, that has established excellent in-house weekly supervision, CPD events and hosts research projects. This provides significant opportunities for ongoing skills development, enhancement, and potential for development of research skills.
The Role
Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but are not limited to):
- Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
- Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.
- Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research.
- Provide expert CBT education, training, and supervision to clinical staff working within or external to the team.
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The Candidate
To succeed in this role you will have (See attached Person spec for complete experience list):
- Extensive post-qualification experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) for adults and older adults with a range of mental health problems where there is a strong evidence base for CBT, for example, depression, panic disorder, PTSD, GAD, and OCD.
- Post-graduate diploma/degree in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent e.g., recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist.
- Full practitioner accreditation with the BABCP.
- Experience of delivering specialist CBT to a wide range of patients of varying cultural and demographic backgrounds, including working with interpreters.
- Experience of highly specialist CBT assessment and treatment of patients with a wide range of diagnoses, across a range of care settings such as outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient, and patient’s’ home.
- Ability to work from the clinical base and a passion for delivering therapist-assisted CBT out in community settings, patient homes, meeting a high demand for face-to-face sessions with patients.
You will need to have a full driving license as the role covers Leicester City, Leicestershire County, and Rutland.
In return, the Trust is able to offer a challenging, stimulating, and ultimately rewarding role within an innovative team committed to improving patients access to suitable psychological therapy. If you want to secure an interesting and challenging career, please contact us.
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For informal enquiries, please contact Rachel Shelbourne or Tara Cousins on 0116 295 2305.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours, and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
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