Step 3 Clinical CBT Supervisor - NHS Talking Therapies Suffolk

NHS; England; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Suffolk is seeking a Step 3 Clinical Supervisor to oversee CBT clinicians and ensure they adhere to guidelines. The role requires extensive experience in delivering CBT and supervising therapists. This permanent position offers a hybrid work environment with responsibilities including clinical supervision and direct patient care. Starting salary ranges from £47,810 to £54,710 gross per annum.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in delivering CBT.
• Full accreditation with the BABCP required.
• Experience of offering clinical supervision to therapists.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervision to Step 3 clinicians.
• Assist the clinical leadership team in supporting the service.
• Maintain a small caseload for assessment and treatment.

Skills

Ability to make judgements involving complex facts

Experience in managerial/clinical supervision

Education

Professional qualification in a recognized mental health profession

Job description

Step 3 Clinical CBT Supervisor - NHS Talking Therapies Suffolk

Wellbeing Suffolk service is a NHS Talking Therapies programme, providing primary care assessment, advice and psychological interventions to people in Suffolk, who want help with common mental health problems of anxiety and low mood. Interventions are delivered both face to face and remotely through telephone and video call.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Step 3 Clinical Supervisor with extensive experience of delivering CBT, to join our team. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical supervision (including case management) to Step 3 clinicians, ensuring supervisees work safely and professionally, adhering to NICE guidelines and professional/service guidance.

Applicants must hold full accreditation with the BABCP and will have experience of offering clinical supervision to other therapists.

This is a permanent position. The service has sites in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. There will be an expectation of both working from service sites and home working.

Main duties of the job

As part of the role you will be involved in assisting the clinical leadership team in supporting and developing the High Intensity part of the service and helping the service achieve its required key performance indicators.

You will also be responsible for your own, small caseload. Providing assessment and treatment for people presenting with common mental health problems, within the NHS Talking Therapies framework.

This service is delivered via a partnership between Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) and third sector providers. We deliver a bio-psychosocial model which includes psychological, employment and social interventions across the county. Our treatments are delivered face to face, by telephone or MS Teams video call and online via webinars.

About us

Benefits included with this role are:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview date is to be confirmed. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a date and time slot if you are short listed. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

To find out more about NSFT and Wellbeing please visit our websites: www.nsft.nhs.uk and www.wellbeingnands.co.uk

Person Specification

Experience

• Theoretical knowledge of CBT/Therapies and extensive experience in the application of appropriate models of practice, according to client needs
• Substantial experience in managerial/clinical supervision of others casework, particularly in an IAPT context

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration in a recognised mental health profession BABCP accreditation as a CBT/Therapist (may have been gained following successful completion of High Intensity Therapist Training)

Skills

• Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, ability to exercise judgement in identifying and assessing complicated events or problems

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum