Job summary
We are a well established CAMHS service addressing the challenges of the increasing needs of children and young people over the past 3 years. We seek a CBT High Intensity Practitioners who can help us meet this demand and enhance our existing CBT offer. You will join us in a friendly, kind and caring atmosphere and be a valued member of a strong and supportive multi-disciplinary team.
We are seeking practitioners who will:
1. Hold children, young people and families voice at the centre of all that we do
2. Have strong experience and clinical skills and hold a caseload in line with usual CBT High Intensity IAPT job plan expectations.
3. Share our trust values-based approach of working together, always improving, being respectful and kind and making a difference.
4. Hold a High Intensity IAPT or CYPIAPT Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent. While a Core professional qualification such as counselling psychology, nursing or social work is desirable we are keen to explore what staff without these Core Professions could bring to our team. With no core profession we would ask that the therapist provide evidence of meeting the knowledge & skills framework requirements to become accredited with the BABCP
5. The opportunity to expand your skills and experience with children and young people with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs
Main duties of the job
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
Assess clients for suitability for therapy / CBT. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department's referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients. To draw appropriately from a range of assessment tools and methodologies. To interpret and integrate complex data and information from a variety of sources to develop psychological formulations and identify the most relevant intervention strategy. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
Provide clinical supervision to and support the psychological work of other clinical staff that provides psychologically based care and treatment.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views ( It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
6. believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
7. would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
8. agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
9. would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To deliver CBT within a defined locality/team and maintain a high quality service within CAMHS, Gloucestershire.
To provide clinical services within a stepped care model in the defined service area, within a Multi-disciplinary Team comprising of; Psychological Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Medics, Creative Therapists, students and trainees.
Provide clinical supervision within the CAMHS CBT team to less experienced therapists as job planned.
The team will be operational within Gloucestershire
Services may be delivered in a wide range of settings and locations: educational facilities, GP practices, office/clinic etc. Though are primarily clinic based.
To establish and maintain effective communications within and external to the CAMHS service, within Gloucestershires health services and partner agencies and organisations.
To provide training, consultancy and supervision in CBT and psychological approaches to a range of qualified/unqualified mental health/non mental health staff within primary mental health, primary care, secondary mental health care in Gloucestershire and to other agencies as required.
Flexible working arrangements within hours per week, with core service hours of 9:00am to 17:00pm
Person Specification
qualifiaction and experience
Essential
10. Qualification from High Intensity IAPT or CYPIAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma). OR equivalent: A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology/ a recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or a psychological therapy
11. Further post graduate qualification OR training and experience in CBT that meets full BABCP accreditation standards and will apply for accreditation on commencement of the post
Desirable
12. Essential qualification for post
experience and atitude
Essential
13. Experience of working in services for children and young people
Desirable
14. Demonstrates motivation or experience working with children