Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
High Intensity/CBT Therapist/ Practitioner Psychologist
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Job Description
Role Overview
The post holder will be part of the specialist psychological therapies service for OpCourage North, covering the North West and will provide specialised Trauma Focused Psychological Therapies such as Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) or EMDR. The post holder will be expected to have/develop an understanding of armed forces culture to meet the specific needs of the Veteran community.
Responsibilities
- Work with military veterans who have a range of complex psychological presentations such as Symptoms associated with PTS, anxiety, depression, adjustment, childhood and relational difficulties.
- Travel across the North west, including Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria, Cheshire and Merseyside. Seeing clients in a variety of venues.
- Provide assessments for specialist psychological interventions/individual therapy.
- Responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for veterans, including in groups if required. Developing and refining formulations across a range of clients and psychological models.
- Manage a therapy caseload providing evidence-based psychological therapies to veterans seen within the service in line with targets agreed with management.
- Contribute to new methods of service delivery, to encourage optimal opportunities for access to service for vulnerable client groups.
- Engage in joint working with other staff to optimise the use of resources.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Engage positively within multidisciplinary meetings.
- Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research, to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other colleagues.
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Benefits
Remote working equipment, including access to the web-based clinical system, will be provided. The post holder will also have opportunity to provide clinical supervision to senior Mental health & Wellbeing practitioners, substance misuse practitioners, peer support workers and volunteers.
About Us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
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Equality and Diversity
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
- Access to Continued Professional Development.
- Involvement in improvement and research activities.
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katherine McGuirk
- Job title: Programme Manager
- Email address: pcn-tr.opcourageNW@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 323 0707
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