CBT Therapist

Job overview

The Sutton Early Intervention team is a friendly multidisciplinary team including doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists CBT therapist, family intervention therapist and an employment specialist.

We aim to provide a comprehensive package of care for people age 18-65 living in Sutton who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. This is a 3 day a week fixed term post (until end of July 2027) in Sutton Early Intervention for Psychosis team for a CBT therapist to provide psychological therapies to service users who have experienced a first episode of psychosis.

You would work as part of a supportive team of clinical psychologists and CBT therapists. Experience working with psychosis is desirable but not essential.

Please note it is a trust requirement for working in secondary care that applicants are qualified health care clinical practitioners with a core profession in one of the following: nursing, occupational therapy, social work, counselling/clinical psychology

Main duties of the job

You will provide cognitive behaviour therapy to patients referred to the Sutton Early Intervention Team. This will include providing specialist cognitive behavioural therapy assessment and therapy for people who have experienced a first episode of psychosis as well as other difficulties such as anxiety, depression and trauma. There will also be opportunities to develop experience in family interventions for psychosis.

The role is dynamic and will require you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, attend MDT meetings and to offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to other members of the Sutton EIS team.

The role will be based at the Wilson Hospital in Mitcham.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide specialist CBT assessments of clients referred to the early intervention service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and semi-structured interviews.

To design and implement plans for the formal CBT treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of individual, family and group interventions based upon evidence of treatment efficacy, and which rely primarily upon CBT models.

To evaluate and make decisions about CBT treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic CBT models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To engage in the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team. To provide specialist CBT advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a CBT based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on CBT approaches to aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

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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.