Job Overview Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist NHS LLR Psychological Therapies Team is seeking a highly skilled Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience. This post offers the opportunity to work within a newly formed, dynamic, and innovative service, that provides high quality CBT for patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological services. This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients. Now operating in its second year, the service offers an amazing opportunity for the right candidate. You would join a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team, that has established excellent inhouse weekly supervision, CPD events and hosts research projects. This provides significant opportunities for ongoing skills development, enhancement, and potential for development of research skills. The Role Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but are not limited to): Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations. Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research. Provide expert CBT education, training and supervision to clinical staff working within or external to the team. The Candidate To Succeed In This Role, You Will Have Full practitioner BABCP accreditation. Registration with the appropriate statutory professional regulatory body i.e., NMC, HCPC or BABCP KSA equivalent relevant to your core mental health professional qualification or equivalent Post graduate diploma / degree in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy or equivalent for example a recognised qualification as a High Intensity IAPT therapist. Experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) for adults and older adults with a range of mental health problems where there is a strong evidence base for CBT, for example, depression, panic disorder, PTSD, GAD, and OCD. Experience of delivering specialist CBT to a wide range of patients of varying cultural and demographic backgrounds, including working with interpreters. Experience of highly specialist CBT assessment and treatment of patients with a wide range of diagnoses, across a range of care settings such as outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and patient’s’ home. Ability to work from the clinical base, community settings, patient home, for face-to-face sessions with patients. Full UK driving licence. Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities) To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of psychological therapy and psychology services. To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological therapy services with complex problems for which CBT is evidenced to be clinically effective. This includes working with adults who may present with severe and treatment resistant disorders with co-existing conditions. To use a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information to provide specialist cognitive behavioural assessments and formulations that inform highly skilled CBT interventions. To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload under clinical and case management supervision. To contribute to the ongoing development of CBT practice considering advances in treatment, theory, and research. To maintain specialist CBT knowledge and skills and BABCP accreditation. The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. To work from the clinical base, in patients’ homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics at across LPT sites, for predominately face to face sessions. Some remote working will be appropriate. Adherence to all the Trust’s standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance will be required. We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.