Specialist CBT therapist/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service in Woolwich is seeking a Specialist CBT Therapist/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist. The role involves providing therapy, supervising trainees, and supporting a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have a postgraduate doctorate and experience in psychological interventions. This position offers career progression and opportunities for training in NICE supported interventions.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent.
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Willingness to undertake Advanced Training in CBTp if not completed.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the EIP Mental Health Service.
• Implement plans for psychological treatment and management of clients' mental health problems.
• Deliver NICE approved CBTp and Family Interventions for Psychosis.

Skills

Clinical assessment

CBT therapy

Team collaboration

Client-centred care

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Advanced Diploma in CBT for Psychosis

HEE approved training in Family Interventions for Psychosis

Job description

Specialist CBT therapist/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

We have an exciting preceptorship development position for either a newly qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT therapist looking for a post with potential career progression, OR for an experienced Band 7/8A ready to apply directly for an 8A post.

The successful candidate will join our friendly community mental health team, in the Greenwich Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.

You will be part of an MDT helping the EIP service support the needs of people experiencing a range of psychosis related difficulties.

WE WOULD WELCOME APPLICATIONS FROM CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO ARE IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF DOCTORAL TRAINING, and those who are looking for the opportunity for career development and wish to build the specialist skills and experience in line with the roles set out below.

There will be very close working with the other psychological therapists across EIP, and there will be lots of opportunity for additional support. For those applying for the preceptorship development post, following successful completion of a preceptorship programme (formal log of competencies), usually over a period of 18 -36 months, the Band 7 position will lead to a Band 8a.

If you are interested in this position or have any questions, we would welcome and encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion and/or to meet the team.

Main duties of the job

As part of the therapy team, you will be providing individual and group interventions, as well as working with families.

You will be supporting the wider MDT with psychological perspectives into individuals and families support and care needs. You will also have the opportunity to develop your supervision skills through supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologists.

You will work with people from a range of different backgrounds and ages, and will ideally be passionate about equal opportunities and client-centred care. Working with clients within a secondary care team, you will have an opportunity to develop experience and skills and specialist skills in psychological interventions in working with this client group. You will have the opportunity to train further in NICE concordant interventions for psychosis such as CBTp and FiP, in addition to the option of being involved in our psychosis family therapy service, and accessing training in trauma therapies such as EMDR.

You will hold a clinical case load and be supervised by the ICMP Lead Psychologist. You will also have the opportunity to attend specialist supervision in CBTp, FiP, and other therapy modalities (e.g. ACT, EMDR).

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the EIP Mental Health Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To deliver NICE approved CBTp and Family Interventions for Psychosis.
• To facilitate groups for clients and carers.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including responsibilities within the policies and clinical duties to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This will require being able to convey this to clients, families and colleagues with a range of understanding and knowledge so will require the ability to be flexible, adaptive and simple but yet retain a sophisticated understanding and approach.
• To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

Person Specification

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Advanced Diploma in CBT (for Psychosis or SMI)
• HEE approved training in Family Interventions for Psychosis.
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP
• Willingness to undertake Advanced Training in CBTp if not completed.

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.