Main area CAMHS CBT Grade Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (To end on 25th December 2025) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 327-24-1136-A
Site Evergreen house Town Cheltenham Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/04/2025 23:59
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Job overview
1 x Fixed Term contract/secondment opportunity for up to 12 months
*Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment*
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 Practitioner 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.
Main duties of the job
* Hold children, young people and families voice at the centre of all that we do.
* Have strong experience and clinical skills and hold a caseload in line with usual CBT High Intensity IAPT job plan expectations.
* Share our trust values-based approach of working together, always improving, being respectful and kind and making a difference.
* 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 having BABCP accreditation via the knowledge & skills (KSA) framework.
* The opportunity to expand your skills and experience with children and young people with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* 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.
* 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.
* Deliver CBT within a defined locality/team and maintain a high quality service within CAMHS, Gloucestershire.
* 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.
* Establish and maintain effective communications within and external to the CAMHS service, within Gloucestershire’s health services and partner agencies and organisations.
* 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 37.5 hours per week, with core service hours of 9:00am to 17:00pm.
Person specification
Experience
* Qualification from High Intensity IAPT or CYPIAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma).
* 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.
* Experience of working in services for children and young people.
Experience
* Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression and demonstrating the competences as required.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites.
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service.
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours.
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities.
* Recognition and long service awards.
* Fast Track physiotherapy.
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
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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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