Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site CIPTS
Town Croydon
Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 07/03/2025 23:59
Cognitive Analytic Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high-quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognized for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognizes the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for a Band 7 Cognitive Analytic Therapist (0.8 wte / 4 days) who is ACAT accredited to work alongside other members of a large, well-established secondary care Psychological Therapies team.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will provide CAT assessment and treatment to people with complex presentations where there is co-morbidity, treatment resistance, or associated personality and interpersonal difficulties. The post holder will also provide consultation to non-psychology colleagues within the community mental health teams.
Working for our organisation
CIPTS provides assessments, consultation and psychological therapy for adults with complex mental health difficulties across the Borough of Croydon. CIPTS comprises a dedicated and well-established team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists in CAT and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The service is committed to implementing NICE Guidelines and ensuring evidence-based practice but there is also an appreciation of the value of a range of psychotherapeutic models with a complex client group.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To work as a Cognitive Analytic Therapist within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
2. To deliver the systematic provision of a specialist CAT service to services users referred to the service, providing CAT assessment, treatment and consultation.
3. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
4. To offer specialist CAT advice and consultation to other mental health professionals.
5. To undertake and maintain specialist continuing professional development relevant to the CAT role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Therapist Practitioner post-graduate Diploma
* Recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions or other relevant experience and demonstrable competence to practice in the mental health field in the NHS.
Experience
* Experience of CAT caseload with adult presentations, including BME groups
* A personal therapy experience of sufficient intensity, depth and duration to be able to work psychotherapeutically with difficult and demanding cases
* Work within a variety of multi-disciplinary team settings, including inpatient, day patient and outpatient
* Experience of delivery CAT informed teaching
Knowledge
* Understanding of the role of CAT in a modern NHS mental health service
* Knowledge of other psychotherapeutic models of treatment
Skills
* Ability to work effectively as a team member
* Ability to contain and manage high levels of emotional distress and disturbance in self and others
* Ability to undertake risk assessment and management with disturbed service users
* Capacities for organization, management and self-management
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.
Additional Information
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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