Maternal Mental Health Service CBT therapist

NAI Terramont Commercial; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time CBT Therapist to join a dynamic team dedicated to supporting women's mental health. This role is crucial in providing person-centered care and interventions that significantly impact the quality of life for mothers and their families. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to develop a new Maternal Mental Health Service, focusing on addressing complex mental health needs in the maternity context. If you are passionate about making a difference and have the required qualifications, this is a unique chance to contribute to a vital service while enjoying a supportive work environment that values diversity and professional development.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Must be BABCP accredited with experience in delivering CBT.
• Minimum 2 years experience in mental health services required.

Responsibilities

• Support development of Maternal Mental Health Service.
• Deliver education and training events for key professional groups.

Skills

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Interpersonal Skills

Effective Communication

Time Management

Resilience

Education

Degree level qualification in core profession

Post Graduate Diploma CBT qualification

Talking Therapy qualification in High Intensity CBT

Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

About

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services to people living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, a large geographical area which is home to approximately 600,000 people.

The Trust also provides specialist services for children, including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and young people and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.

Our specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and from further afield.

The Trust also runs Whitby Hospital, a community hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and community services to Whitby and the surrounding area, and eight GP practices - two in Hull and six in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

We employ approximately 3050 staff across more than 70 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Whitby. As a teaching Trust, we work closely with our major academic partners, Hull York Medical School and Hull University, nurturing a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

Key details

Location

Site: St Andrews Place

Address: 271 St Georges Road

Town: Hull

Postcode: HU3 3SW

Major / Minor Region: East Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (0.60 FTE)

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Adult Mental Health, Planned Division

Job overview

Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women and their families at a crucial point in their lives? We know that providing person centred care and intervention can impact significantly on quality of life for women as well as their children and families.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a 3 day per week part time CBT Therapist to support the development of a new Maternal Mental Health Service across Humber and North Yorkshire. This is a unique opportunity to be part of this crucial service which will consist of a small MDT team including a range of therapists.

As an important member of the team, you will uphold the values of promoting women and family centred care whilst ensuring child protection and welfare of the family. You will strive to improve public health by endeavouring to reduce mental health morbidity in mothers through interagency working and communication and fostering collaborative working.

You will aim to raise awareness and competence by delivering education and training events targeted at key professional groups and consider opportunities to collaborate with academic institutions and other key stakeholders in researching maternal mental health.

Please note that we are recruiting candidates that are BABCP accredited.

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The Humber and North Yorkshire service will identify and assess moderate-severe/complex mental health needs associated with loss in the maternity context and will provide specialist advice and signposting, as well as targeted interventions.

This may include but is not limited to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following perinatal loss including recurrent miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, ectopic pregnancies, unsuccessful IVF treatment, stillbirth, or neonatal death. The service will also support women with a severe fear of childbirth (tokophobia) if the woman is not currently pregnant.

The service is intended to provide consultation, advice, formulation, and targeted interventions for those whose needs cannot be met by other services, for example, Primary Care Services including Talking Therapies, Maternity and third sector-based bereavement services. The service is also intended for women with needs that do not meet the criteria of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services.

Working for our organisation

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and personal specification for the full information on the job description and main duties.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification in core profession.
• A Post Graduate Diploma CBT qualification which meets the criteria for British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists BABCP accreditation with evidence of experience delivering CBT.
• Talking Therapy (IAPT) qualification in High Intensity CBT Psychological Therapies – post graduate certificate level.
• Accredited with the BABCP.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.
• Research methodology.
• Clinical supervision qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services, a minimum of 2 years’ experience.
• Experience of providing evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professionals.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist/advanced level of care.

Desirable criteria

• Development of advance/expert level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Experience of working in a service where agreed targets are in place & demonstrating clinical outcomes.
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice.
• Teaching experience/qualification.

Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in mentoring.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• The ability to be resilient and maintain one’s own wellbeing whilst working in stressful situations, managing a high volume caseload.
• Good time management skills.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.

Desirable criteria

• Broad knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Alex Rawling

Job title: Team Manager

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 01482 336837

Additional information: Katy Morley - Service Manager 01482 336837