High Intensity Therapist (CBT Therapist)

Band: 7

Main area: NHS Talking Therapies Knowsley

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours (37.5 hours per week)

Job ref: 350-CC6857515

Site: Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre

Town: Whiston

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/01/2025 23:59

Interview date: 22/01/2025

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce.

Job overview: We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced CBT therapist to join our Talking Therapies services in Mersey Care. Our professional and supportive team of CBT therapists, PWPs, counsellors and support staff respond to the needs of adults experiencing common mental health difficulties across Knowsley, St Helens, Halton and Liverpool. Working both autonomously and as part of the team, the successful candidate will work with people with a variety of presentations providing high intensity step 3 interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide high intensity psychological interventions for people whose needs are complex or chronic.
• Provide specialist assessment, formulation and treatment, including consultation and recommendations regarding service users’ care to colleagues.
• Undertake systemic measurement of clinical outcomes with service users.
• Utilise research skills for audit, research, service evaluation and service development.
• Provide clinical supervision for staff who are providing High Intensity Therapy at Step 3.
• Receive supervision for post holder's own work.
• Provide advice and support for colleagues whose background is not in Step 3 High Intensity Therapy.

Person specification:

• For CBT posts: Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation.
• For Counselling posts: Diploma in Counselling from a recognised course which meets the requirements for BACP Accreditation AND having completed the IAPT/Talking Therapies Counselling for Depression (CfD) course.
• Holds Accreditation by the appropriate body OR be able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year.
• Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrate the competences as required.

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.

• Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007).
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
• Ability to work under pressure.

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Transparency and honesty

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.