Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking to recruit a qualified and 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.
The person will be responsible for carrying out choice assessments that may lead into partnership working with children and adolescents with behavioral, emotional, psychological, and/or mental health difficulties, as well as consultation work with their families/carers and liaising 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 the ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of diverse family forms.
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning, and reviewing the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child, their carer, and professionals as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multidisciplinary interventions.
Main duties of the job
* 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 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.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is 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.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training
* Experience working as a CBT Therapist with clients with moderate to severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
* Current full registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP.
* Post-graduate training in CBT or its equivalent (for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist.
* Related academic qualifications at undergraduate and/or masters level.
* Experience of independent administration and interpretation in cognitive behavioral assessment.
* Experience of research, service development, and audit.
* Substantial pre-qualification clinical experience under supervision to enable the post holder to take full clinical responsibility for their caseload.
* Additional training and qualification in one of NICE recommended therapy modalities.
* Post-graduate training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice.
Areas of Experience, Knowledge
* Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency collaboration.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems.
* Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill and experience in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues.
* Able to plan own workload and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service.
* Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children/adolescents including Eating Disorders.
* Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
* Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi-media materials for formal presentations.
* Experience and knowledge of CYP-IAPT.
* Experience of having published in peer-reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
Communication Skills
* Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively.
* Ability to work with children and young people whose behavior is personally challenging.
* Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with young people.
* Ability to provide a therapeutic environment which contributes to young people's healthy development.
* Ability to assess reports and clinical information and provide clear and concise information tailored for different audiences.
Analytical Skills
* Able to prioritise work, to operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and adapt plans as necessary.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
Physical Skills
* Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995).
* IT Skills including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel & use of Electronic Patient Record Systems.
* Requirement to drive across the county of Hertfordshire.
* Ability to manage periods of prolonged concentration in client sessions and during computing tasks.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Borehamwood Civic Centre, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA
£48,270 to £54,931 a year, pro rata (+ 5% HCAS included)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-CYP-9143
Job locations
Borehamwood Civic Centre, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA
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