Job Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and passionate CBT Therapist to join Westminster Talking Therapies Service (IAPT) located in the diverse and vibrant community of the London borough of Westminster. Our team is key in the work we do and service provided to the population of Westminster.

You will have opportunities for regular clinical supervision from the senior leadership team, specialist supervision for PTSD and training opportunities, such as Behavioural Couples Therapy, MBCT and LTC. You will provide clinical supervision to our Step 2 team, including qualified and trainee psychological wellbeing practitioner and will receive supervision training to equip you in doing this. Our Step 3 team also provide supervision for our trainee clinical psychologists and CBT trainees on placement with our service.

Wellbeing is important within our service, and we are a diverse, collaborative and cohesive team. We offer flexible working patterns including onsite and remote working.

Main duties of the job

You will hold a Step 3 caseload of anxiety disorders, and depression and offer CBT treatment in line with NICE guidance. At Step 3 we offer treatment digitally and face-to-face in order to best meet the needs of our service users. In your role you will be involved with our duty team and screening referrals, have regular supervision, regular reflective practice, monthly team CPD and monthly sub-team and wider team meetings, a chance to be involved in areas of interest including perinatal, community outreach, young adults, older adults, long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+.

There are opportunities for training, plus career progression within the team. The ability to deliver therapy in local languages in desirable.

You must be BABCP accredited or have attended a BABCP accredited CBT training course to be eligible for this post. If you working towards accreditation, you will also be considered for the post as long as you meet the shortlisting criteria and can demonstrate you are on track to meeting the course requirements.

You will be expected to participate in extended hours clinics offered by the service which include evening clinics.

Working for our organisation

The catchment area of the post is the London borough of Westminster. We have two main hubs that we work from, one is in Victoria and one is near Paddington.

We operate an agile working policy where staff combine remote working and being on-site to deliver face-to-face appointments and other service commitments that require a hub-based presence.

The post-holder will work part-time hours and may be required to work at any times between 8am and 8pm on weekdays including up to two evening clinics as required by the service.

Benefits of working for CNWL include:

• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service (pro-rated)
• NHS discount
• Opportunities for career progression
• New starters will have a 13-week probation period which is a supportive process to allow individuals to learn and work within the key aspects of their role over a period of time

If you would like to see what it's like to work for CNWL please have a look at https://talkingtherapies.cnwl.nhs.uk/work

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

1.0 CLINICAL

• 1.1 Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred for CBT, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved with their care. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved. Determine suitability of the approach and refer on unsuitable individuals to appropriate agencies and/or provide advice, including psycho-education, as appropriate.
• 1.2 Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of cognitive behaviour therapy, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality. It is expected that the post-holder will treat patients across the range of severity.
• 1.3 Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for individual patients and groups. Adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand and drawing upon different explanatory models and objective cognitive behaviour therapy measures to maintain a number of provisional hypotheses, whilst maintaining ethical and legal standards.
• 1.4 Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate.
• 1.5 Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes and systems, which have shaped the individual.
• 1.6 Include family members and others involved in clients’ problems in therapy programmes where necessary.
• 1.7 Assess and deliver therapy programmes in the community or GP Surgery and other settings as necessary.
• 1.8 Discharging patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as appropriate on completion of therapy. Ensure outcome and follow-up of treatment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate.
• 1.9 Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, discharge and onward referral of patients whose problems are managed by psychotherapeutic interventions.
• 1.10 Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others. Involve other agencies as appropriate.
• 1.11 Adhere to the BABCP and other relevant professional codes of conduct, policy and guidance.
• 1.12 Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data-entry and recording, report writing for the purposes of personally generated clinical, audit, teaching and research information.
• 1.13 Exercise responsibility for professional self-governance in accordance with BABCP and other relevant professional codes of practice and conduct and Trust policies and procedures.
• 1.14 Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
• 1.15 Develop and propose innovative responses to identified needs of the diverse and multi-cultural community the service serves in collaboration and consultation with colleagues and other relevant teams and agencies.