Teaching, training, and supervision

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from senior colleagues.
• To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to the post, as agreed with the Clinical & Deputy Clinical Leads. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to IAPT psychological treatments, as agreed with the IAPT Clinical & Deputy Clinical Leads.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.
• To provide ad hoc clinical supervision to staff as required from the PWP and CBT teams, also ensuring that these two teams have access to an independent structure for routine clinical supervision.
• To provide clinical placements for trainees and others as appropriate, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
• To provide professional oversight and clinical advice to trainee therapists on 12 month fixed term contracts in the service. Trainees will also have a named supervisor from the Band 7 workforce.
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

• To offer line management to all members of the Counselling Team.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Brent Talking Therapies Service, Service operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To be involved in the management of the workloads IAPT practitioners within the framework of the current Service policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of IAPT staff and be responsible for the recruitment of counselling staff at band 6 and 7.
• The post holder will be required to attend and contribute to the regular professional meetings of Service and other IAPT meetings locally and Trustwide as appropriate.

Research and service evaluation

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other CNWL IAPT Service staff members.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
• To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
• The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical & Deputy Clinical Leads and other appropriate staff on any such projects the service undertakes.

IT Responsibilities (other Than Those Used For Research)

• The postholder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data and provide this to the Service Lead / Clinical & Deputy Clinical Leads where appropriate.
• The postholder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.
• The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that those staff they are responsible for and supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

General

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s professional and service manager(s).
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in Counselling and relevant disciplines within the meetings of the Brent Talking Therapies Service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of CBT or clinical/counselling psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and other relevant bodies, as well as Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• To ensure that all relevant policies are adhered to.
• To represent the Service Clinical or Deputy Clinical Lead when required to do so.
• To work flexibly and respond to service needs accordingly e.g. with regard to cover Service Level Agreement arrangements.

Please Note:

• This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
• This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
• The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information, clinical governance including research governance.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate diploma, masters degree or doctorate in Psychotherapy, Counselling, or Counselling Psychology.
• Must be accredited with the BACP or the UKCP, or equivalent professional body (e.g. NCS Accredited Professional, BCP, BPS or HCPC). Accreditation and Registration as Counsellor, Psychological Therapist or Psychotherapist.

Desirable criteria

• Post-qualification training in one or more additional evidence-based approaches to treatment in primary care mental health and IAPT e.g. DIT, IPT, CfD.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive relevant post qualification clinical experience including working in a primary care setting and work