CAMHS CBT therapist
Job Description
Job summary
Bury CAMHS has an opportunity for a 12 month fixed term contract for a Band 7 CAMHS practitioner with training in CBT.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be able to work effectively in senior clinical leadership position, have excellent communication skills, welcome a challenge and have a real desire to make a difference to the care we provide to the child and adolescent age group inclusive of evolving models of care and modernisation of mental health services.
You should be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and have a flexible approach.
You must have experience of working and delivering CBT to a wide range of clinical presentations including working in the field and child and adolescent mental health. Your main responsibility will be for developing and leading specific treatment pathways, providing mental health assessments and a wide range of psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents and families using evidence based interventions.
You will also provide professional clinical supervision and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other practitioners who provide psychologically based care and treatment and contribute to the leadership of the service under the direction of the operational manager and clinical lead.
About us
The CAMHS Care Hub within Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has an active and innovative staff development strategy. Working for CAMHS within the trust means that you will access to in house training, such as shadowing staff across different care pathways, accessing training around different evidence based psychological approaches and having opportunities to further your own training needs through a robust CPD policy. Support with accessing trust wide training for managers, including accessing complaints training, interviewing and recruiting staff training and clinical supervision training.
We have a robust supervision policy which ensures that clinical and managerial supervision are delivered by different people for each clinician and we also provide specialist clinical supervision where necessary in order for people to maintain or work towards accreditation in therapeutic modalities where their role requires it.
We are committed to ensuring the psychological wellbeing of our staff as well as our patients and as such have a staff wellbeing strategy in place across the CAMHS Care hub; Bury CAMHS have developed a staff wellbeing plan by staff and for staff working in the team.
Job responsibilities
For further information:
Please contact Paris Thompson, Operational Manager, 0161 716 1100
please see above information for role details
Person Specification
education/qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualifications relevant to work in child and adolescent mental health e.g. nursing, social work, postgraduate qualification in clinical psychology or occupational therapy
- Specialist post qualification training in psychological therapy with children and families to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma level
- Accreditation with the appropriate accrediting bodies governing the specific modality ( e.g. BABCP, IY)
Desirable
- additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child mental health Additional accredited training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties inc family relationship problems
- Managing a caseload and associated professional activities under supervision and working in MDT setting
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and adolescents
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner
Desirable
- Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical approach and understanding to child mental health and development
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and government policy relating to children's mental health
- Child protection knowledge and practice
- Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit research and service evaluation
skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to work in partnership with service users ,carers, colleagues and other agencies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing ,complex, technical and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative
- Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
- Ability to be self reflective whilst working with service users , in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
Desirable
- Service development or Project management skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Pennine Care NHS FT
Address
Bury CAMHS
Fairfield General Hospital
Rochdale Old Road
BL9 7TD
