High Intensity CBT Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

High Intensity CBT Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and passionate CBT Therapists to join Brent Talking Therapies Service (IAPT) located in the

diverse and vibrant community of the London borough of Brent. Our team is keyin the work we do and service provided to the population of Brent.

You will have opportunities for regular clinical supervision from the senior leadership team, specialist supervision for PTSD and training opportunities, such as Behavioural Couples Therapy, MBCT and LTC. You will provide clinical supervision to our Step 2 team, including qualified and trainee psychological wellbeing practitioner and will receive supervision training to equip you in doing this. Our Step 3 team also provide supervision for our trainee clinical psychologists and CBT trainees on placement with our service.

Wellbeing is important within our service, and we are a diverse, collaborative and cohesive team. We offer flexible working patterns including onsite and remote working.

You will hold a Step 3 caseload of anxiety disorders, and depression and offer CBT treatment in line with NICE guidance. At Step 3 we offer

treatment digitally and face-to-face in order to best meet the needs of our service users. In your role you will be involved with our duty team andscreening referrals, have regular supervision, regular reflective practice, monthly team CPD and monthly sub-team and wider team meetings, achance to be involved in areas of interest including perinatal, community outreach, young adults, older adults, long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+.

There are opportunities for training, plus career progression within the team. The ability to deliver therapy in local languages indesirable

You must be BABCP accredited or have attended a BABCP accredited CBT training course to be eligible for this post. If youworking towards accreditation, you will also be considered for the post as long as you

meet the shortlisting criteria and can demonstrate you are on track to meeting the course requirements.

You will be expected to participate in extended hours clinics offered by the service which include evening clinics.

The catchment area of the post is the London borough of Brent. The main hub for the service is based at Fairfields House in Kingsbury and thereis a satellite hub at Bell House in Willesden Green.

We operate an agile working policy where staff combine remote working and being on-site to deliver face-to-face appointments and other service

commitments that require a hub-based presence.

The post-holder will work full-time hours and may be required to work at any times between 8amand 8pm on weekdays including an evening clinic as required by the service.

Benefits of working for CNWL include:

• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• Opportunities for career progression
• New starters will have a 13-week probation period which is a supportive process to allow individuals to learn and work within the key
• aspects of their role over a period of time
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CLINICAL

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking

Therapies Brent Service for CBT, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration

of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including

self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured

interviews with patients and others involved with their care

• Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patient’s mental health problems,based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of cognitive behaviourtherapy, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within It is expected that the postholder will treat patientsacross the range of severity.

• Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for…