CAMHS High Intensity CBT Psychological Therapist

Job overview

Full time and part time hours available. Flexible working opportunities available.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced BABCP Accredited Child and Adolescent CBT Psychotherapist to join our Core CAMHS Service. The post holder will hold a caseload of young people primary and secondary school age, with a range of mental health presentations. We are fortunate to work alongside the child, the family and their network to support their recovery. We have a robust multi disciplinary team in Core CAMHS to support this complex clinical work, for example psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers and creative therapists. Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for further detail about this post.

Job description

You will hold your own autonomous caseload with care coordination responsibilities. Support the service operational policy, supporting high quality evidence based interventions, timely throughput and safety of our children and young people. Due to the variety of ages, presentations and networks a variety of creative approaches will be needed to enable CBT. As a senior clinician in the team you will have the opportunity to be part of quality improvement in the service. Enhanced communication skills necessary for this post, to include sharing formulations to young people, families and networks.

We will offer monthly CBT Supervision to enhance practice and revalidation. You will have access to CPD and other training opportunities.

For further details about this role please see job description and personal specification.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and personal specification for overview of responsibilities and role.

About the organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification from High Intensity IAPT or CYPIAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma)
• Further post graduate qualification OR training and experience in CBT that meets full BABCP accreditation standards and will apply for accreditation on commencement of the post
• Is a member of a professional body, such as BABCP, BPS, NMC upon commencement of the post.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in mental health services where multi-disciplinary working was embraced as part of service delivery
• Work to date evidences application of Psychological knowledge to improve and develop practice and contribution to service development

Desirable

• Experience of working in services for children and young people

Supporting documents

• CBT High Intensity B7 PS.pdf (PDF, 137 KB)
• CBT High Intensity B7 JD.pdf (PDF, 217 KB)