Job summary Our Service seeks a High Intensity Accredited Counsellors (Band 7) with a particular interest, experience and firm commitment to working to deliver effective brief treatments. The service works across diverse patient groups presenting with a wide range of psychological difficulties. "Applicants need to be counsellors eligible for the Band 7- Must have completed IAPT modality training(DIT, IPT, PCE-CfD or CTfD) and in additionnot be currently working in the NHS or an NHS commissioned service". A supervision qualification is desirable. We seek experienced clinicians who have an interest in applying clinical practice in a variety of other ways to develop the service performance and clinical outcomes. The post offers a range of developmental opportunities including Screening, Supervision, lead areas, waiting list/pathway management, audit & research. Main duties of the job Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of patients referred to Harrow Talking Therapies for High Intensity Counselling. Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling, and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples and groups. Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates. Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload. Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors. Discharge patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as appropriate on completion of therapy. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment, discharge and onward referral. Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others. Involve other agencies as appropriate. "Comply with relevant professional standards and guidelines. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping. Exercise responsibility for professional self-governance. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources. Develop and propose innovative responses to identified needs of the diverse and multi- cultural community. About us The Counselling Team is a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians. The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from the senior management team, as well as benefit from support and guidance from colleagues, regular reflective practice, and highly specialist CPD. Clinicians work collaboratively across the wider Service which has close links with our Community Mental Health Hub and local organisations and charities. Our Counselling team provides assessment and treatments in brief counselling and IAPT modalities: DIT, IPT, PCE-CfD and CTfD. The team is substantially psychodynamic or integrative in approach. Date posted 21 January 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 7 Salary £51,883 to £58,544 a year per annum (pro rata P/T) inc HCAS Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time, Part-time Reference number 333-J-HA-0625 Job locations Harrow Talking Therapies 12-14, Station Road, Harrow (opp Harrow Civic Centre) London HA1 2SL Job description Job responsibilities Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Service for High Intensity Counselling, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including self-report measures, rating scales, assessing for suitability of the treatment. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved. Determine suitability of the approach and refer on unsuitable individuals to appropriate agencies and/or provide advice, including psycho-education, as appropriate. Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of counselling, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality. It is expected that the postholder will treat patients across the range of severity. Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling, and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples and groups, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand, and drawing upon different explanatory models and objective IAPT modality framework/s to maintain a clinical individualized focus whilst maintaining ethical and legal standards. Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates, for a High Intensity post as per IAPT national guidelines and local IAPT implementation board. Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload and make it available for supervision and for the patient as required. Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes and systems, which have shaped the individual. Include family members and others involved in clients problems in therapy programmes, where and if necessary. Assess and deliver therapy programmes in the community or GP Surgery and other settings within the service, as necessary. Discharge patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as appropriate on completion of therapy. Ensure outcome and follow-up of treatment is communicated to the referring agent and other professional involved as appropriate. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment, discharge and onward referral of patients whose problems are managed by psychotherapeutic interventions. Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others. Involve other agencies as appropriate. Adhere to relevant professional codes of conduct, policy and guidance ofAccreditation requirements for individual registrants on the Professional Standards Authority register of Accredited Counsellors including UKCP, BACP, BPC etc. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data-entry and recording, report writing for the purposes of personally generated clinical, audit, teaching and research information. Exercise responsibility for professional self-governance in accordance with the HCPC, BPC and BACP and other relevant professional codes of practice and conduct and Trust policies and procedures. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. Develop and propose innovative responses to identified needs of the diverse and multi- cultural community the service serves in collaboration and consultation with colleagues from CNWL Talking Therapies IAPT Service and other relevant teams and agencies. Job description Job responsibilities Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Service for High Intensity Counselling, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including self-report measures, rating scales, assessing for suitability of the treatment. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved. Determine suitability of the approach and refer on unsuitable individuals to appropriate agencies and/or provide advice, including psycho-education, as appropriate. Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of counselling, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality. It is expected that the postholder will treat patients across the range of severity. Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling, and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples and groups, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand, and drawing upon different explanatory models and objective IAPT modality framework/s to maintain a clinical individualized focus whilst maintaining ethical and legal standards. Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates, for a High Intensity post as per IAPT national guidelines and local IAPT implementation board. Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload and make it available for supervision and for the patient as required. Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes and systems, which have shaped the individual. Include family members and others involved in clients problems in therapy programmes, where and if necessary. Assess and deliver therapy programmes in the community or GP Surgery and other settings within the service, as necessary. Discharge patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as appropriate on completion of therapy. Ensure outcome and follow-up of treatment is communicated to the referring agent and other professional involved as appropriate. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment, discharge and onward referral of patients whose problems are managed by psychotherapeutic interventions. Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others. Involve other agencies as appropriate. Adhere to relevant professional codes of conduct, policy and guidance ofAccreditation requirements for individual registrants on the Professional Standards Authority register of Accredited Counsellors including UKCP, BACP, BPC etc. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data-entry and recording, report writing for the purposes of personally generated clinical, audit, teaching and research information. Exercise responsibility for professional self-governance in accordance with the HCPC, BPC and BACP and other relevant professional codes of practice and conduct and Trust policies and procedures. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. Develop and propose innovative responses to identified needs of the diverse and multi- cultural community the service serves in collaboration and consultation with colleagues from CNWL Talking Therapies IAPT Service and other relevant teams and agencies. Person Specification EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Essential Qualification from a BACP approved Diploma in Counselling or equivalent, or qualified as a Counselling Psychologist, or qualified as a Psychodynamic psychotherapist or counsellor, with substantial specialist knowledge, theory and skills of Counselling acquired through diploma / degrees with professional Accreditation. Professional Accreditation on the Professional Standards Authority register of Accredited Counsellors (MBACP [Accred], UKCP, BPC, HCPC, UKAHPP, National Counselling Society Professional Accreditation) Or Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC Practitioner qualification in an accredited IAPT modality "Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy(DIT), Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression(PCE-CfD), Interpersonal Psychotherapy(IPT), Couples Therapy for Depression(CTfD) Desirable Supervisor qualification from a substantial Counselling and/or IAPT modality supervision course, as a supervisor for Counselling, DIT, IPT, CTfD, PCE CfD Additional training in specialist areas related to primary care mental health e.g. LTC, Perinatal, group facilitation, clinical risk assessment Qualified/Registered Mental Health Professional PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Essential Experience of working as an Accredited High Intensity Counsellor with highly specialist post-qualification experience of assessment and brief counselling treatment of adult patients in a primary care mental health setting or similar, and presenting with problems that reflect a wide range of clinical severity. Experience of providing specialist expertise in the field of brief Counselling interventions. Experience of assessing clinical risk in the context of common mental health problems. Desirable Specialist psychotherapeutic working experience. Experience of teaching, training and supervision, and providing specialist expertise. Experience of the application of psychotherapy in difference cultural and diversity contexts. Experience of managing an independent and specialist caseload. Research skills and knowledge and aptitude OTHER Essential Ability to work creatively, cooperatively, reliably and consistently both as an independent practitioner and in multi-disciplinary and team settings. Demonstrably respectful approach to patients, carers, colleagues, other professional contacts with the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the post. Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally. Desirable Knowledge of local languages and ability to deliver therapy in other languages Person Specification EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Essential Qualification from a BACP approved Diploma in Counselling or equivalent, or qualified as a Counselling Psychologist, or qualified as a Psychodynamic psychotherapist or counsellor, with substantial specialist knowledge, theory and skills of Counselling acquired through diploma / degrees with professional Accreditation. Professional Accreditation on the Professional Standards Authority register of Accredited Counsellors (MBACP [Accred], UKCP, BPC, HCPC, UKAHPP, National Counselling Society Professional Accreditation) Or Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC Practitioner qualification in an accredited IAPT modality "Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy(DIT), Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression(PCE-CfD), Interpersonal Psychotherapy(IPT), Couples Therapy for Depression(CTfD) Desirable Supervisor qualification from a substantial Counselling and/or IAPT modality supervision course, as a supervisor for Counselling, DIT, IPT, CTfD, PCE CfD Additional training in specialist areas related to primary care mental health e.g. LTC, Perinatal, group facilitation, clinical risk assessment Qualified/Registered Mental Health Professional PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Essential Experience of working as an Accredited High Intensity Counsellor with highly specialist post-qualification experience of assessment and brief counselling treatment of adult patients in a primary care mental health setting or similar, and presenting with problems that reflect a wide range of clinical severity. Experience of providing specialist expertise in the field of brief Counselling interventions. Experience of assessing clinical risk in the context of common mental health problems. Desirable Specialist psychotherapeutic working experience. Experience of teaching, training and supervision, and providing specialist expertise. Experience of the application of psychotherapy in difference cultural and diversity contexts. Experience of managing an independent and specialist caseload. Research skills and knowledge and aptitude OTHER Essential Ability to work creatively, cooperatively, reliably and consistently both as an independent practitioner and in multi-disciplinary and team settings. Demonstrably respectful approach to patients, carers, colleagues, other professional contacts with the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the post. Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally. Desirable Knowledge of local languages and ability to deliver therapy in other languages Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Address Harrow Talking Therapies 12-14, Station Road, Harrow (opp Harrow Civic Centre) London HA1 2SL Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)