Berkshire Healthcare are currently looking for an experienced CBT to join the team. If you are interested in broadening your NHS experience and providing high intensity interventions to patients within a supportive setting then we please do apply!
Ideally, you will be skilled and competent in using therapy skills for assessment, formulation and interventions in order to deliver evidence based psychological interventions for a range of mental health difficulties, e.g. Anxiety, moderate to severe depression, OCD, single and complex trauma, health anxiety, body dysmorphia, eating difficulties, chronic panic.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to delivering and co-developing the primary care mental health service model. This includes care pathways for the provision of integrated physical and mental health care in a designated Primary Care Network within East Berkshire.
Work with adults (18+) with severe/significant mental illness, whose mental health needs can be best met within primary care and whose difficulties are best understood within a biopsychosocial model.
Work closely with colleagues in specialist community mental health services to ensure smooth transitions between teams and services and facilitate an easy in, easy out approach to improve access to evidence-based interventions.
Complete joint assessments with CMHT, to identify and support patients ready to transition to primary care, and develop care plans and prepare people for step down.
Lead collaborative working between the full range of physical health and mental health services, to ensure that people who need care are able to access it quickly and easily and are prevented from being excluded from services or "falling through gaps".
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression: access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.
Work-life Balance: flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave.
Opportunity & Access: over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working with people with a variety of mental health presentations.
* Specialist mental health and psychological knowledge and skills in relation to moderate to severe anxiety disorders, depression, single and complex trauma.
Qualifications
* High Intensity IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) Post-Graduate Diploma (Masters).
* BABCP Registration.
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.
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