We are recruiting High Intensity Therapists to join our Liverpool Talking Therapies service.
This is an exciting time to join our services; we are growing our service so that we are able to reach more people across the City and engage them in therapeutic support.
Come and join our team of High Intensity Therapists (HIT) and be a part of an exciting growing service.
High Intensity Therapists equip people with the tools and techniques they need to overcome complex problems related to anxiety and depression. You’ll make a difference to people's quality of life by providing a range of evidence-based interventions. You’ll be based in an NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression service, working with adults from a variety of backgrounds.
You’ll work with people with depression and anxiety disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This work will take place face to face (with some remote working) and sometimes in therapeutic groups. A large part of your role will be to assess a service user’s suitability for evidence-based psychological interventions, formulating and implementing treatment and evaluating progress. Once treatment begins, you’ll meet with service users regularly, usually weekly, to measure and review progress and tailor treatment accordingly. A clinical supervisor will support you in your work to help you engage in self-reflection, seek and respond to feedback, and develop your professional knowledge and skills.
You will have already completed the appropriate formal training in the therapy or therapies that you deliver in NHS Talking Therapies. Accreditation by the relevant professional body is an expectation of the role.
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.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
1. Name: Victoria Harris
2. Job title: Team Lead
3. Email address: talkingtherapiesliverpool@merseycare.nhs.uk
4. Telephone number: 0151 228 2300
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