Maternal Mental Health Service CBT therapist

NHS; York; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider is recruiting two full-time CBT Therapists to develop a Maternal Mental Health Service across North Yorkshire and York. The roles involve assessing mental health needs, providing targeted interventions, and delivering education. Candidates must hold an accredited CBT qualification and have at least 2 years of experience in mental health services. This opportunity promotes a commitment to family-centred care and includes a range of benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in mental health services.
• Experience providing evidence based psychological interventions.
• Documentation of continuing professional development relevant to clinical area.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess moderate-severe mental health needs in maternity context.
• Deliver education and training events for professional groups.
• Provide consultation and targeted interventions for clients with complex needs.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Ability to manage high volume caseload

Resilience in stressful situations

Education

Post Graduate Diploma CBT qualification

Talking Therapy (IAPT) qualification

Accredited with the BABCP

Job description

Maternal Mental Health Service CBT therapist

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 2 full time CBT Therapists to support the development of a new Maternal Mental Health Service across North Yorkshire and York. The successful candidates will be required to work across the North Yorkshire and York patches. 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.

Main duties of the job

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 which includes 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.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

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 promotes 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.

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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• 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.
• 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

Experience

• 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.
• 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

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in mentoring
• The ability to be resilient and maintain one's own wellbeing whilst working in stressful situations, managing a high volume caseload.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
• Broad knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.

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.