Complex Trauma Worker CBT

Job overview

Temporary CBT Therapist – Sexual Abuse and Assault Pathway (6‑month contract)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and well‑organised CBT Therapist to join our Sexual Abuse and Assault Pathway in North Staffordshire. This post will work exclusively within the Sexual Assault services pathway delivered in partnership by North Staffordshire Combined NHS Trust, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, VCSE partners (Survive and Women’s Aid), and the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

This is a temporary six‑month post providing high‑intensity psychological interventions, initially focused on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The postholder will work with individuals presenting to mental health services with difficulties related to complex trauma.

The successful candidate will manage and assess referrals in line with service protocols, undertaking autonomous assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence‑based psychological interventions. The role requires sensitive and compassionate engagement with clients and, where appropriate, their families, while contributing to a stepped‑care approach through close multidisciplinary and multi‑agency collaboration. Additional responsibilities include maintaining accurate clinical records and data, meeting agreed activity targets to support timely access to care, and contributing to service evaluation and improvement activities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will manage and assess referrals in line with service protocols, undertaking autonomous assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence‑based psychological interventions. The role requires sensitive and compassionate engagement with clients and, where appropriate, their families, while contributing to a stepped‑care approach through close multidisciplinary and multi‑agency collaboration. Additional responsibilities include maintaining accurate clinical records and data, meeting agreed activity targets to support timely access to care, and contributing to service evaluation and improvement activities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service

• Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.

• Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.

• Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties

• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service.

• Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.

• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.

• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.

• Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols

• Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.

• Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process

• Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.

• Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.

• Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals / individuals / groups / committees across Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.

• Attend and fulfil all the requirements of BABCP approved supervision training.
• Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service.

• After completion of supervision training, supervise staff in the service.

• Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g. BPS,  UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g. NHS plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence).

• Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.

• Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies.

• Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).

• Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager.

• Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.

• Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.

• Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional objectives.

• Participate in service improvement by highlighting issues and implementing changes in practice.

• Provide an advisory service on matters related to the practice and delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to individuals/groups/committees across the Mental Health Trust, Primary Care Trust and other voluntary agencies.

• Promote and maintain links with Primary Care and Secondary Care Staff to help co-ordinate the provision of an effective Psychological Therapies Service.

• CLINICAL
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
• TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
• PROFESSIONAL
• ADVISORY / LIAISON