Site: Older Adults CMHT Lancaster & Morecambe (65+) Town: Lancaster
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
An exciting opportunity has opened for a suitably qualified High-Intensity Band 7 CBT Therapist to join the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team (OA CMHT).
Ideally, applicants should have experience of working with older adults with mental health needs and be driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population. The successful candidate will work as part of an Older Adult multidisciplinary team, providing a high-intensity CBT service to patients with mental health disorders. The applicant will need to possess all the essential attributes outlined on the person specification, and in addition will need to be able to work confidently with minimal supervision and be able to use their initiative.
The OA CMHT supports people over the age of 65 with severe and enduring mental health needs and also for those under 65 with an early onset Dementia. We provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment, education, and create individualised care planning. Based at DeVitre House in Lancaster, the OA CMHT covers the Lancaster & Morecambe Area and the team operational hours are Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural assessment and therapy service to older adults working as part of a multidisciplinary team and providing advice and consultation on client’s psychological care.
Minimum Requirements
Applicants who have not completed their training as a CBT Therapist will not be considered. Applicants need to be BACP fully accredited.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
* Qualification in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to post graduate diploma level.
* Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN Social Worker, O.T.
Knowledge
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
* Skills in providing advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
* Experience of CBT assessment and treatment of adult clients across the lifespan.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of clients that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Personal
* Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration.
* Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
* Ability to cope with highly distressing emotional circumstances.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to support and maintain clinical practice.
Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
Application Process
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received.
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