High Intensity Therapist

Integrated Care System; Southall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider seeks a qualified high intensity therapist to deliver specialist CBT to clients. This role requires significant experience in assessment and therapy for mild to moderate mental health issues, including anxiety and depression, based in the Ealing area and involves supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment in a Talking Therapies service.
• Fully accredited with the BABCP or able to achieve accreditation within six months.
• Experience working with a variety of client groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide qualified specialist CBT services to clients.
• Consult and supervise colleagues and trainees.
• Work flexibly including at least one evening session.

Skills

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Assessment and Treatment

Supervision

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council

Accreditation with the BABCP

Job description

Ealing NHS Talking Therapies was one of the first Talking Therapies services to launch in 2008, and is one of the three services provided by West London NHS Trust. We are a large team of over 70 members of staff and are currently working on further expansion. Our main base is in Ealing where we have access to over 16 clinic rooms and two open plan offices. In addition to this, we run clinics at GP surgeries across the borough, covering areas such as Southall, Acton, and Chiswick. Our service is well-established and many of our staff have been with us since the beginning.

Clinical and line management supervision is part of our success, and as a qualified high intensity therapist you will benefit from weekly clinical supervision, monthly line management supervision, and monthly step 3 clinical skills. In addition to this, we operate a duty system on a daily basis with daily debrief to make sure that all new assessments are discussed promptly.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist CBT service to clients from Ealing NHS Talking Therapies service. These clients are primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. This involves providing specialist CBT assessment and therapy.

To provide advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. It will involve supervision of other colleagues including trainee HI therapists and PWPs, as well as trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.

The post involves being able to work flexibly and to be able to work at least one evening session (i.e. 12am - 8pm one day). The sessions would be based within the borough of Ealing; this could be either at one of our two main sites either in Southall or Ealing and other Health centres / GP surgeries

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, Occupational therapy) plus a post graduate diploma or higher degree in CBT. Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC)
• To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, or to be able to achieve provisional practitioner accreditation with the BABCP within six months of starting in post.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Fully accredited with the BABCP

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an Talking Therapies service
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings. Including outpatient, community, and primary care settings.

Knowledge/skills

• Experience at working with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at a specialist level
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
• Knowledge of issues relating to primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

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.