Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED 28 OCT 2024

Band 7: £46,148 to £52,809 a year  PERMANENT  GOOD SALARY 

This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients.

NHS LLR Psychological Therapies Team is seeking a highly skilled Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience. This post offers the opportunity to work within a newly formed, dynamic, and innovative service, that provides high quality CBT for patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological services.

This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients. Now operating in its second year, the service offers an amazing opportunity for the right candidate.You would join a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team, that has established excellent inhouse weekly supervision, CPD events and hosts research projects. This provides significant opportunities for ongoing skills development, enhancement, and potential for development of research skills.

The Role Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but are not limited to) Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.

Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research. Provide expert CBT education, training and supervision to clinical staff.

To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of psychological therapy and psychology services. To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological therapy services with complex problems for which CBT is evidenced to be clinically effective.

This includes working with adults who may present with severe and treatment resistant disorders with co-existing conditions. To use a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information to provide specialist cognitive behavioural assessments and formulations that inform highly skilled CBT interventions. To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload under clinical and case management supervision. To contribute to the ongoing development of CBT practice considering advances in treatment, theory, and research. To maintain specialist CBT knowledge and skills and BABCP accreditation. The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

To work from the clinical base, in patients homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics at across LPT sites, for predominately face to face sessions. Some remote working will be appropriate. Adherence to all the Trusts standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

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If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification.

NHS LLR Psychological Therapies Team is seeking a highly skilled Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with Adult Mental Health experience. This post offers the opportunity to work within a newly formed, dynamic, and innovative service, that provides high quality CBT for patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological services.

This service is one of the first nationally, taking a novel and targeted approach to meeting the needs of these patients. Now operating in its second year, the service offers an amazing opportunity for the right candidate.You would join a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team, that has established excellent inhouse weekly supervision, CPD events and hosts research projects. This provides significant opportunities for ongoing skills development, enhancement, and potential for development of research skills.

The Role Whilst a comprehensive Job and Person Specification are attached, summary elements include (but are not limited to) Working as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within Psychological Therapy Services as an autonomous cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. Responsibility for the effective management and treatment of patients with complex presentations.

Provide evidence-based CBT interventions and develop treatment initiatives by means of expert evaluation, innovation, and research. Provide expert CBT education, training and supervision to clinical staff.

To work as a specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapist as part of psychological therapy and psychology services. To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to patients who have been identified as at risk of falling between primary and secondary care psychological therapy services with complex problems for which CBT is evidenced to be clinically effective.

This includes working with adults who may present with severe and treatment resistant disorders with co-existing conditions. To use a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information to provide specialist cognitive behavioural assessments and formulations that inform highly skilled CBT interventions. To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload under clinical and case management supervision. To contribute to the ongoing development of CBT practice considering advances in treatment, theory, and research. To maintain specialist CBT knowledge and skills and BABCP accreditation. The post holder will communicate across language and cultural barriers, working with interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

To work from the clinical base, in patients homes or in outdoor spaces and clinics at across LPT sites, for predominately face to face sessions. Some remote working will be appropriate. Adherence to all the Trusts standard operating procedures and health and safety guidance.

About us

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification.



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