Our Service seeks a High Intensity Accredited Counsellor (Band 7) with a particular interest, experience, and firm commitment to delivering 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 not currently be 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 various 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.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of patients referred to Harrow Talking Therapies for High Intensity Counselling.
2. Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems.
3. Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples, and groups.
4. Comply with caseload and set activity requirements, including the number of contacts and recovery rates.
5. Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload.
6. Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress.
7. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.
8. Discharge patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as necessary on completion of therapy.
9. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, discharge, and onward referral.
10. Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others, involving other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and exercise responsibility for professional self-governance. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and propose innovative responses to the identified needs of the diverse and multicultural community.
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 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.
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 various quantitative and qualitative sources, including self-report measures and rating scales. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved.
Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of counselling. 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, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand, maintaining ethical and legal standards.
Comply with caseload and set activity requirements as per IAPT national guidelines and local IAPT implementation board.
Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agents and other professionals involved.
Include family members and others involved in clients’ problems in therapy programmes, where necessary. Assess and deliver therapy programmes in the community or GP Surgery and other settings within the service, as necessary.
Ensure the outcome and follow-up of treatment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate.
Adhere to relevant professional codes of conduct, policy, and guidance of Accreditation 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, and report writing for clinical, audit, teaching, and research purposes.
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 multicultural community the service serves in collaboration and consultation with colleagues from CNWL Talking Therapies IAPT Service and other relevant teams and agencies.
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