Job summary
The Generic Team of Greenwich CAMHS is pleased to offer a permanent Senior CBT Therapist. The role includes providing assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Greenwich CAMHS offers services to children, young people and families between the hours of and 6pm, in order to improve accessibility for school-aged children and working care-givers. These extended hours also mean there is greater flexibility for working hours for the staff team. We also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
The Generic Team is a highly experienced and established multidisciplinary team. It is comprised of a diverse and specialist group of professionals from different backgrounds. We are also welcoming of trainees in all disciplines and currently have trainees in art therapy, family and systemic therapy, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. We work with a wide range of age groups (0-17 years) and clinical presentations.
Main duties of the job
You would join Greenwich CAMHS at an exciting time of service development. Greenwich CAMHS and partner agencies are currently in the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich. As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. You will work in this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary team and may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians. You will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives to meet the needs of the population.
About us
GCAMHS sits within culturally diverse Greenwich and offers a rich and stimulating environment from which to hasembedded the principles of CYP-IAPT within its service provision, and there is an active Young Person's Participation Group supporting service delivery across the three CAMH services within are an equal opportunities employer. We would welcome applications from BAME candidates to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we work with.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
1. We're Kind
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3. We Listen
4. We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is with the Generic Team in Greenwich Generic Team is a highly experienced multidisciplinary team comprised of psychiatry, family therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, childrens wellbeing practitioners, and psychology at various levels of Senior CBT Therapist role is to provide assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The role may also involve specialist consultation, support, and training to colleagues within and external to the service. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. In addition, you may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians.
Greenwich CAMHS is based at Highpoint House on Shooters Hill in Plumstead and is accessible by different bus routes from several different South Eastern train stations. There is free parking on site, nearby streets and at the large car park at the adjacent Memorial also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. The Trust and CAMHS have been rated as Good by the CQC and has a culture of supporting staff, whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
For more information please see the Job Description attached.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
5. To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, clinical/counselling psychology with appropriate up-to-date registration.
6. To have completed a post-graduate accredited qualification in CBT
Desirable
7. Experience or training in CYP-IAPT
Experience
Essential
8. Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including work with children.
9. Experience of working with a variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
10. CAMHS experience
11. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
12. Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
13. Knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT within a mental health setting.
14. Knowledge/skills in the theory and practice of CBT with children and young people.
15. Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
16. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
17. Ability to use CYP IAPT outcome measures and integrate these into therapy