CBT Therapist

Job overview

The North Stoke Community CAMHS Team are looking to recruit a full time Band 7 CBT Therapist.

The successful candidate will:

• Manage the referral pathway and develop the pathway to meet the four week wait target.
• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
• Ensure that each referral is allocated to the most appropriate CB therapist or professional in a timely way to meet the waiting time targets.
• Ensure fidelity to the CBT model, ensuring timely intervention, treatment and discharge.
• Support the embedding of CYP-IAPT principles within practice and within the team.

Main duties of the job

• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service’s referral protocols, and when appropriate to signpost clients on to more relevant services or back to the referral source as necessary.
• Carry out specialist assessments, and highly complex formulations, treatment plans, and interventions. Clinical work will be with individuals, groups, couples and families across all sectors of care, including clients frequently presenting severe and/or highly complex difficulties.
• Provide specialist evidenced based supervision to NHS and partner agency staff in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire and the Region.
• Provide role model and clinical leadership in relation to the delivery of high quality mental health care.
• Maintain and develop knowledge of advances in mental health practice, or theory in practice and act as the catalyst for innovation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Promote the use of critical skills analysis and innovative approaches to ensure care is reviewed according to service user needs/perspectives.
• Ensure that all providers of care throughout the health community are involved in planning, delivering and evaluating care where indicated.
• Exercise professional accountability and responsibility, taking into account the actions of other professionals who are responsible / accountable to you.
• Ensure carers/significant others are included in the planning implementation delivery and evaluation of care.
• Demonstrate ability to weigh up the interests of service users in highly complex situations using professional knowledge, judgements and skills to enable you to account for the decisions you make, and the specialist clinical leadership you provide for others.