Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Job overview

As a CBT practitioner within our expert team, you will deliver transformative care through both our specialist inpatient programme and intensive home-based therapy, working with patients who have complex needs and have not responded to previous treatments.

Based at our distinguished Seacole Ward—a 14-bed unit within Springfield University Hospital—you'll provide highly specialised psychological services for severe and profound OCD/BDD cases. This unique role offers opportunities to contribute to a nationally commissioned NHS England tier 6 service, work alongside BABCP Accredited therapists, participate in research, and develop advanced specialist skills through robust supervision.

We're looking for qualified mental health professionals who are either BABCP accredited (or working towards accreditation) or HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists. While experience with OCD and BDD is desirable, we primarily seek individuals passionate about developing expertise in this specialist area.

Join us in delivering innovative, evidence-based care at the forefront of OCD and BDD treatment.

Main duties of the job

As a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist at our nationally-renowned service, you'll provide specialised mental health care at Springfield University Hospital, delivering expert cognitive behavioural therapy to individuals with severe OCD and BDD. Your clinical work will focus on evidence-based treatment approaches within both inpatient and community settings.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with our multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care through both our specialist inpatient programme and intensive home-based therapy
• Develop treatment approaches for complex cases that haven't responded to previous interventions
• Contribute to service development and research initiatives

Our service combines intensive inpatient care with community outreach, enabling you to work flexibly across different care settings. You'll occasionally travel to support patients across the UK, but your primary base will be our purpose-designed facility at Springfield Hospital.

We're looking for someone who combines clinical expertise with the professional resilience needed to support individuals through challenging periods. If you have experience in specialist mental health care and want to work with a team dedicated to advancing OCD/BDD treatment, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To identify the nature, severity and complexity of adult patients’ mental health problems, and to advise both patients and their referrers on appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other highly specialist services and/or non-statutory services where appropriate.
• To formulate and implement plans for the intensive psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy.
• To make appropriate use of specialist assessments of patients’ mental health, including structured and semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, rating scales and guided inquiry methods.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other clinicians in Secondary Care on psychological aspects of risk assessment, including the risk of self-harm.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple or family.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the efficiency of all aspects of the service, including assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their treatment within the national service.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit.