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Job overview
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, oversight and governance for the CBT team in the Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale boroughs. They will work closely with Step 3/3.5 Service Manager, Clinical Lead and Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist in providing this.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for development and delivery of this high-quality service in accordance with Pennine Care's Service Development strategy and the NHS long-term plan. They will provide effective clinical leadership within the service, working to meet the needs of the local population and national KPIs.
They will provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention at the level of complexity appropriate to a senior therapist working at Step 3/3.5. They will provide weekly supervision and case consultations for clinicians within Thinking Ahead and lead on research, audit and development strategies, generating practice-based evidence. They will attend a weekly Response Hub MDT.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
* 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a high level of specialist expertise within the application of cognitive and/or behavioural treatments, consistent within an IAPT model.
To be consulted on cases which will be considered outliers to a standard IAPT operating model, typically labelled as 'complex', 'challenging' or 'chronic', but may fall within a common mental disorders pathway.
To ensure IAPT compliance within the service, assuring the service manager of CBT governance and ensuring the delivery of CBT therapies across the service which aims to meet the needs of a largely heterogeneous socio-cultural demographic.
To ensure supervision governance standards are delivered within the "Supervision of Psychological Therapies" competency framework (CSIP / skills for health); to enable the CBT workforce to deliver NICE compliant recovery focused treatment that meets IAPT model fidelity.
To provide clinical supervision and/or supervision of supervision to CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) and develop CBT pathways and treatments within the service. The post holder will support the clinical lead in delivering robust clinical leadership across the service, and report to the senior manager and clinical lead.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Fully accredited CBT therapist with BABCP.
* Additional training in CBP/other modalities.
* Completed Talking Therapies supervision training.
* Experience of working to targets to achieve clinical outcomes.
* Track record of delivering TT-compliant supervision to workforce.
* Worked with a primary-care patient population and delivered outcomes.
* Experience of teaching and leading CPPD.
* Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, teams or organisations.
Desirable criteria
* EMDR-qualified and/or working towards accreditation.
* Track record of teaching CBT skills and principles.
* Experience of providing consultation to staff on CBT principles.
Other important information
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities.
* If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
* If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity.
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