Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
CYPMHS Lead Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced CBT therapist to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS).
This is a brand new post that will support implementation of the expansion of our Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) alongside providing professional leadership to our many CBT therapists and wellbeing practitioners across the CYPMHS footprint.
We are looking for someone who can strengthen delivery of CBT across all ten of our CYPMHS teams, including core CYPMHS, MHSTs, Crisis Response/Home Treatment, and Children & Young People's Eating Disorders.
The ideal candidate will be someone who will thrive in a role that balances service development, provision of supervision, and delivery of CBT-based interventions to young people under the care of MHSTs.
Role Purpose
- To provide clinical and professional leadership for CBT therapists and wellbeing practitioners within the CYPMHS service line.
- To work collaboratively with other lead psychological professionals to develop and strengthen the psychological therapies offer across the service line.
- To work with managers and clinical leads to implement the expansion of MHSTs, in line with the national target to provide support to 100% of schools.
- To take a role in the CYPMHS Senior Leadership Team.
- To undertake and support service development, audit and research activities.
- To have oversight of clinical supervision for CBT therapists and wellbeing practitioners in the service line.
- To provide clinical supervision to CBT therapists.
- To provide CBT-based therapeutic interventions to young people and their families who are being supported by our MHSTs.
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About Us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Vicky Seagrave
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: vicky.seagrave@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07584 999 247
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