Senior Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Sussexcommunity; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced cognitive behavioural psychotherapist to join their dynamic CAMHS team. This role offers the chance to work collaboratively with specialists, engage in innovative practices, and contribute to the development of mental health services for children and young people. With a focus on flexible working arrangements and professional development, this position promises a rewarding career path in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about making a difference and improving outcomes, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Training and CPD

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recognised accredited postgraduate training in psychological therapy.
• Experience in delivering positive outcomes in psychological therapy.

Responsibilities

• Participate in multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention work.
• Provide support and supervision to a growing CBT workforce.

Skills

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Supervision

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Psychological assessment

Education

Accredited postgraduate training in psychological therapy

Job description

Passionate about CBT and want to join a welcoming and dynamic team? Come and join us!

We're looking for an experienced cognitive behavioural psychotherapist with BABCP accreditation and a recognised CYP-MH qualification in supervision.

You should be interested in working in systemic and innovative ways to best improve the outcomes of children and young people. Within CAMHS you will work alongside highly specialist nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists with opportunities for innovative joint practise. You will be well-supported with training, CPD, and opportunities for career development.

We operate a care pathways model and you would hold some clinical lead responsibilities within these. With a small caseload, you would also hold some supervision responsibilities of CBT therapists and CWPs. You would also play a lead role in our group interventions and workshops, and offer training and consultation

Main duties of the job

As a member of the CAMHS team, you would participate in the core multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention work of the team, and engage in multi-agency liaison work as necessary. You would also be required to participate in the supervision, training and the overall governance requirements of SPFT CAMHS.

You'd part of a very busy but lively and welcoming CAMHS team, which offers a wide range of individual, group and systemic interventions, and is involved in a number of innovative evaluation and research projects and service developments. As such, you would be encouraged to develop your skills, ideas and interests to further your expertise and that of the team, in accordance with service needs.

You will have the opportunity to provide support and supervision to a growing CBT workforce, and contribute to wider discussions across the wider Sussex CAMHS service regarding innovative ways of developing our CBT offer. It would be desirable for candidates to have additional supervision training and experience as part of this role.

About us

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
• Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
• With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full role responsibilities and person specification for this post.

Hugh Miller

CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Lead

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised accredited post graduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the relevant Appendix
• Professionally registered as specified in the appendix

Knowledge/Experience

• Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
• Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context
• A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
• Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
• Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
• A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix.
• Experience of conducting formal research, audit or service evaluation in a healthcare setting

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.