Band 7 High Intensity Therapist - Devizes/Salisbury

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Professional development opportunities

Staff wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting enthusiastic High Intensity Therapists to support the Wiltshire Talking Therapies Service. This role focuses on specialist CBT for anxiety and depression and involves clinical assessment, treatment and supervision within a growing service.

The post offers hybrid working with base in Devizes or Salisbury and opportunities for remote work.

Qualifications

• Qualified for High Intensity CBT within NHS Talking Therapies.
• Must hold or be eligible for BABCP accreditation.
• Experience delivering CBT for anxiety and depression in NHS settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological therapy assessments and treatments.
• Provide professional and clinical supervision to team members.
• Communicate assessment, formulation and treatment plans clearly.
• Engage in professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision as appropriate.

Skills

High Intensity CBT

Clinical assessment

Supervision

Flexible working

Education

NHS Talking Therapies HI CBT Postgraduate Diploma

BABCP accreditation or eligibility

Tools

NHS Talking Therapies manual

Job description

Job overview

The Wiltshire Talking Therapies Service is looking for enthusiastic, motivated and qualified High Intensity Therapists to join our dynamic and expanding service to help manage the increasing demand for Step 3 CBT.

We currently operate a hybrid working arrangement, where you will be based in Devizes or Salisbury, combined with opportunities for remote working from home.

You will enjoy the benefits of working in AWP, an NHS Trust that is committed to developing highly skilled workforce and actively encourages professional development opportunities. You will be encouraged and supported to participate in additional training and development activities.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a qualified specialist psychological therapy service for anxiety and depression to clients from the NHS Talking Therapies service. This involves providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using the therapy model specified by the NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression Manual.

You will also provide professional and clinical supervision to other members of the team.

You will need to hold the NHS Talking Therapies High Intensity CBT Postgraduate Diploma and be accredited with the BABCP.

You will be joining the service at an exciting time with expansion across all areas which will open up excellent development opportunities.

We are a friendly and supportive team with a strong focus on staff wellbeing. We offer the opportunity for staff to get involved in specialist areas of interest as a "champion". Current topics covered include support for younger people, equality, diversity & inclusion, service user involvement, wellbeing, veterans and several others.

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties:

Clinical:

• To provide specialist psychological therapy assessments and treatments with clients referred to the NHS Talking Therapies service.

Professional:

• To provide professional and clinical supervision to other members of the team.

Communications and Relationships:

• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

Teaching, training, and supervision:

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a qualified NHS Talking Therapies High Intensity Therapist and other professional colleagues.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision, as appropriate.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision to other members of the team, including Trainee High Intensity Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Assistant Psychologists. Where appropriate, to provide this to trainee NHS Talking Therapies workers and other clinical staff.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Recognised/accredited post graduate level training in a psychological therapy

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Full accreditation with BABCP or eligibility for BPS/CPC and eligibility for BABCP accreditation.

Desirable criteria

• CBT supervisors qualification or eligible to train as a CBT supervisor

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an NHS Talking Therapies service
• Experience of working with a variety of client groups and presenting problems

Skills

Essential criteria

• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.