High Intensity Therapists (Joint recruitment)

Are you looking to work flexibly and join a highly experienced, friendly and supportive Talking therapies team across all services in CNWL . As an IAPT service, we are responsible for the provision of Low intensity and High Intensity therapies within the standards of stepped care model at steps 2 and 3. Our team has Psychological wellbeing practitioners, High Intensity Therapists, Counsellors and trainees and a supportive administrative team.

London Weighting will be confirmed accordingly to your allocated base following successful interviews & employment checks.

Applicants for this position will provide triage screening assessments, CBT assessments and treatments at step 3 of the service and also attend team meetings and training. The role is remotely based, which means that there will be a requirement to do more screening assessments via telephone or video and treatment sessions via video. We are looking for applicants who have enthusiasm for working in a primary care setting, who are adaptable, enjoy variety, and working independently as well as within a team context.

This post would be suitable for experienced practitioners or newly qualified High Intensity therapists. Ability to deliver therapy in local languages is desirable.

In order to be shortlisted for this post, applicants must be BABCP accredited or have attended a BABCP accredited CBT training course.

The Talking Therapies IAPT Services are innovative and progressive services working with Healthcare and Perinatal services and community providers. Service hours are between 8am and 8pm and clinicians are expected to provide some later working hours within their week. Posts are offered part- or full-time, with a minimum of 3 days (22.5hrs) per week

You will receive regular supervision and support from a Senior Clinician as well as benefit from peer support and guidance from other team members. The CNWL Talking Therapies Service has close links with Talking Therapies teams within CNWL with opportunities for further development.

CLINICAL

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Service for CBT, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved with their care. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved. Determine suitability of the approach and refer on unsuitable individuals to appropriate agencies and/or provide advice, including psycho-education, as appropriate.
• Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of cognitive behaviour therapy, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality. It is expected that the postholder will treat patients across the range of severity.
• Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist CBT interventions for individual patients and groups, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand, and drawing upon different explanatory models and objective cognitive behaviour therapy measures to maintain a number of provisional hypothesis. Whilst maintaining ethical and legal standards.
• Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates, for an HI post as per IAPT national guidelines and Local IAPT implementation board.
• Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload and make it available for supervision and for the patient as required.
• Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes and systems, which have shaped the individual.
• Include family members and others involved in clients’ problems in therapy programmes, where necessary.
• Assess and deliver therapy programmes in the community or GP Surgery and other settings within the service, as necessary.
• Discharging patients as appropriate and arrange follow-up as appropriate on completion of therapy. Ensure outcome and follow-up of treatment is communicated to the referring agent and other professional involved as appropriate.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, discharge and onward referral of patients whose problems are managed by psychotherapeutic interventions.
• Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others. Involve other agencies as appropriate.
• Adhere to BABCP, HPC BPS and other relevant professional codes of conduct, policy and guidance.
• Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data-entry and recording, report writing for the purposes of personally generated clinical, audit, teaching and research information.
• Exercise responsibility for professional self-governance in accordance with the HPC, BPS and BABCP and other relevant professional codes of practice and conduct and Trust policies and procedures.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
• Develop and propose innovative responses to identified needs of the diverse and multi-cultural community the service serves in collaboration and consultation with colleagues from CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service and other relevant teams and agencies.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• To maintain relevant professional registration and BABCP accreditation.
• To maintain CPD portfolios and to attend in-house and external CPD activity as appropriate as agreed with the manager
• To fulfil responsibilities towards the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
• To comply with HPC, BABCP and other relevant professional Codes of Practice.