Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Carholme Court
Town Lincoln
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 PRO RATA
Salary period Yearly
Closing 31/03/2025 23:59
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join the psychological provision of the Lincoln South Community Mental Health Team in Lincoln. The Community Mental Health Team is located within the Adult Community Mental Health Division and our mission is to provide high quality psychological services to adults who live in Lincoln. Please refer to the job description and person specification for additional information about this role.
Main duties of the job
1. To manage a caseload of clients within the psychological resource of the CMHT.
2. To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided, to include meeting the standards defined by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and Lincolnshire NHS Partnership Foundation Trust and any other regulatory or professional body as appropriate.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients, carers, families and groups.
4. To provide guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
6. Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other agreed psychological therapies.
7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.
8. To represent the CBT psychological resource of the CMHT in relationships with other agencies and care providers, and to provide advice and leadership in respect of psychological aspects of client care. Maintaining professional body (BABCP) accreditation and registration and supporting other CBT therapists to achieve this in a timely manner.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To be responsible for implementing a range of CBT psychological assessments and interventions for service users.
2. Where appropriate, the personal provision of consultancy, support, professional advice and clinical leadership to more junior professionals/trainees, other professions and other agencies caring for adults with mental health difficulties.
3. Where appropriate, to contribute to supervision and continuing professional development of more junior professionals and trainees.
4. Maintenance of professional standards, codes of conduct and good clinical governance in the Adult Community Mental Health Division.
5. To maintain appropriate records, as required by the service and Trust.
6. Provide individual assessment and therapeutic interventions for cognitive, mental health, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. Therapy may be one to one sessions or group based interventions.
7. Communicate complex and sensitive information empathically, using language which is appropriate to the client group and takes into account any learning difficulties, special needs.
8. Apply the knowledge acquired through further CBT and CPD and training on psychological theory to therapy.
9. Plan and prioritise work effectively in order to combine a clinical caseload with other commitments.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post graduate diploma in CBP and Accreditation (or working towards accreditation) with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
* Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including working with experiences of trauma and abuse.
* Experience in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, as a professional care co-ordinator and within the context of multidisciplinary teams.
* Experience of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, Neuropsychology, learning disability.
Skills
* Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions.
* Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders.
* Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels. Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual client needs and abilities.
* Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with service users.
* Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams.
* Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to service users, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust.
* The ability to frequently sit in a restricted position for long periods during appointments driving between work bases, including at night and in hazardous driving conditions and working at a computer.
* The ability to maintain prolonged and intense concentration and to multi-task during client meetings, and when compiling reports.
* Ability to cope with highly distressing or very emotional circumstances relating to clinical cases.
* The ability to deal with aggressive and challenging behaviour and verbal aggression.
* Willingness to work in diverse settings including hospitals, clinics, and clients’ homes.
* Willingness to work in conditions where there may be exposure to cigarette smoke and unsanitary conditions.
* Ability to contain and deal with organisational stress.
* Able to work independently.
* Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
* Research, evaluation and audit skills.
* Evidence of continuing Professional development.
Special Requirements
* Able to travel for business purposes.
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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