Band 8a Psychological Therapies Trainer - Bath

Job overview

We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is interested in a 2 day a week post to work with the BSW Psychological Therapies Training Lead to develop and deliver training across BSW. The aim of the role, initially, will be to prioritise the delivery of a training programme to support the provision of NICE recommended interventions for people with Psychosis, in particular CBT and Family Interventions. The transformation of services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework offers the opportunity to improve the interventions on offer across BSW Mental Health services including Recovery Teams, Early interventions teams and crisis/ Intensive Support Teams. The successful applicant will play a key role in delivering the training on offer to increase and improve the interventions that will be delivered by these teams in line with national best practice.

We invite applications from people with advanced specialist training in CBT for psychosis and significant experience of delivering training. You will work closely with and be managed by the BSW Psychological Training lead to develop the training and work across the division. You will also work alongside associate trainers with lived experience to ensure training is co-developed and co-delivered.

This role covers the BSW area so you will need to have flexibility in terms of the locations you work in.

Main duties of the job

• To support workforce elements of trust clinical transformation project plans through the development and delivery of high quality, evidence based psychosocial intervention training.
• To focus capacity on the delivery of training in effective, evidence-based interventions (e.g. as recommended by NICE).
• To report on activity and delivery of training at regular intervals as required and as directed by the BSW Training Lead.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development across BSW and related to the delivered training.

You will be working closely with Psychological therapy Services across BSW. The Psychological Therapies Services (PTS) teams in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire offer a range of activities to support psychologically informed care within the secondary mental health service. The teams are well established and highly regarded in local services.

There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We also have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership:

• With the Psychological Therapy training lead, to participate in the development, organisation and delivery of the programme of training to support the Core Community Transformation Project and the Beyond CPA Transformation work.
• To act as the link with NHS England to ensure their support for mental health training provision and development supports the care packages project and the NHS 10 year plan.
• To promote the Trust by developing a specialist profile through publications, and conference presentations and the provision of specialist training to various groups nationally.
• To participate / lead in emerging trust transformation projects as appropriate.

Training and supervision:

• To develop a training programme to support the provision of NICE recommended interventions for people with Psychosis initially, in particular CBT and Family Interventions.
• To deliver CBT training to identified practitioners in BSW community mental health teams working with Service Users with complex mental health problems.
• To evaluate the effectiveness of training activity, demonstrating response to feedback as appropriate.
• To produce and present progress reports detailing activity against key project outcome measures and provide high-level commentary and analysis of data.
• Research:
• To support, facilitate and supervise R&D activities by Psychological Therapy staff and other colleagues.
• To support research in topic areas relevant to the work of the Trust and to initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their families.
• To design, deliver, review and modify training programmes based on best practice and evaluation using a quality improvement methodology.
• To act as a resource for clinical audit, and to develop and apply measures to monitor and evaluate clinical work among psychological therapists in the area.
• To focus capacity on the delivery of effective, evidence-based interventions (e.g. as recommended by NICE).

Most challenging part of this role:

• Design of specialist, complex, mental health specific training, which informs consistent levels of service delivery in evidence based interventions.
• Delivering & co-ordinating a programme of high-quality training, education and development activity within available resources over a wide geographical area.
• Please see attached Job Description for full detail of role and responsibilities:

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.