We are looking to recruit a qualified and an an experienced Cognitive Behavioral Therapist to join our team. The role will suit someone who enjoys working flexibly and in collaboration as part of a multidisciplinary team. T he person will be responsible for carrying out choice assessments that may lead into partnership working with children, adolescents with problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological and/or mental health difficulties and consultation work with their families/carers' as well as caring out networks and liaison with other agencies. To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of diversity family forms. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ their carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions. Working for our organization This post involves clinical work, supporting team members with their clinical practice including a supervisory role and some clinical and management responsibilities to support the team Operations Manager, Specialist Clinical Psychologist and Therapies Lead. To have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues. To maintain close working relationships with colleagues from the same professional group across the county. To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the service and develop and maintain effective working relationships with other agencies and service areas To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families and carers'. To enhance public relations, taking active steps to project a positive image of service users, the service and the Trust You will receive regular supervision and support and will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development and be involved in service development. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our Family Of Over 4,000 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cathy Godfrey Job title: Operations Manager, CYP Eating Disorders Email address: catherine.godfrey1nhs.net Telephone number: 07827 347490 General & Clinical ResponsibilityTo practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system and their varying developmental stages and current emotional state. To be responsible for ensuring that consultation, assessment, and treatment interventions are provided in partnership with children, adolescents and their families. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions in the context of psychology for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including meetings with parents, family members and caring networks, adjusting, and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To be responsible for organizing, attending, and chairing professional meetings and reviews as appropriate. To provide specialist consultation to professionals and agencies outside of the Trust in relation to highly complex cases (for example, families with multi-agency involvement). This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with complex, emotive, and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self-harm, violence, trauma and suicide risk. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering complex factors concerning historical, familial, social, educational and developmental processes which have impacted on the young person and their family. To make skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group. This evidence-based approach includes monitoring outcomes, modifying, and adapting interventions drawn from a range of theoretical models. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients within the CYPMH South Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, facilitating the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the teams to the client. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility under the supervision of the Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Therapies Lead, and Operations Manager for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients as appropriate. To be responsible for ensuring that referrals and discharges are made in accordance with relevant policy and procedures and the principles of good practice. To provide specialist consultation, advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies. For more detailed Job and person specification please read attached documents