Cognitive Behavioural TherapistinLancasterinLancasterPUBLISHED WED 19 MAR 2025
As part of our supportive multidisciplinary team, you’ll provide a crucial service to individuals over 65 and those under 65 with early-onset dementia. You’ll be instrumental in delivering assessments, crafting individualised care plans, and offering vital advice, all while enjoying flexible weekday hours in a nurturing environment at DeVitre House. If you're an accredited CBT Therapist who thrives on empowering others and seeks to make a tangible difference in your community, we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to provide exceptional mental health care to those who need it most.
An exciting opportunity has opened for a suitably qualified High-Intensity Band 7 CBT Therapist to join the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team (OA CMHT) function within the wider older adult mental health integrated services.
Ideally applicants should have experience of working with older adults with mental health needs and be driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population. The successful candidate will be working as part of an Older Adult multidisciplinary team, providing a high-intensity CBT service to patients with mental health disorders. The applicant will need to possess all the essential attributes outlined on the person specification, and in addition will need to be able to work confidently with minimal supervision and be able to use their initiative
The OA CMHT supports people over the age of 65 with severe and enduring mental health needs and also for those under 65 with an early onset Dementia. We provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment, education and create individualised care planning. Based at DeVitre House in Lancaster the OA CMHT covers the Lancaster & Morecambe Area and the team operational hours are Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.This is a wte (?? Hours) post.
Applicants who have not completed their training as a CBT Therapist will not be considered. Applicants need to be BACP fully accredited
To provide a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural assessment and therapy service to older adults working as part of a multidisciplinary team and providing advice and consultation on client's psychological care working within the policies, procedures and protocols for the service.
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Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
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