High Intensity CBT Therapist

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent 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.
• Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' 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.
• Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for individual patients and groups, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand.
• 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 appropriate.
• 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.
• Discharge 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 professionals involved as appropriate on completion of therapy.
• 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 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 consultation with colleagues from CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service and other relevant teams and agencies.
• 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.

Qualifications

• You must be BABCP accredited or have attended a BABCP accredited CBT training course to be eligible for this post. If you are working towards accreditation, you will also be considered for the post as long as you meet the shortlisting criteria and can demonstrate you are on track to meeting the course requirements.

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service.
• NHS discount.
• Opportunities for career progression.