• To work as a member of the Talking TherapiesLeadership Team to deliver a quality and innovative service.

• To provide professional and clinical leadership to the CBT clinicians across the full Talking Therapiesfootprint.

• To take delegated responsibility as the aligned clinical lead for a designated locality.

• To work closely, utilising a co-production model, with designated Team Leaders to ensure the systematic provision of a high quality Talking TherapiesService across that Locality and ultimately across the LCFT footprint.

• To ensure that robust clinical supervision arrangements are in place for CBT clinicians across all Talking Therapiesteams.

• To provide a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural assessment and therapy service to adults with mild to moderate mental health problems, including those individuals with a greater degree of complexity.

• To lead on the delivery of Talking Therapiesservices including the development of group interventions and other psychological therapies appropriate for CBT therapists and which might be available via various mediums.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Lead Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

You will provide leadership to support the Talking Therapies services to meet the contractual commissioning requirement to provide high quality primary care psychological interventions in accordance with clinical best practice guidelines ensuring compliance with national targets and KPI's.

The role offers the opportunity to gain considerable experience in service development, managerial, and additional supervisory skills.This leadership team provide clinical and strategic oversight of the Talking Therapies services across the ICB footprint and link with Locality Service Managers, Team Leaders, clinicians and administrators.

All applicants must have current BABCP therapist accreditation as an essential requirement. We are looking for applicants with substantial experience of working as a high intensity CBT therapist within a Talking Therapies service, working with complex client presentations, and providing formal clinical supervision to Talking Therapies qualified staff and to trainees.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Formally recognised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to post graduate diploma level
• BABCP Practitioner accreditation
• Master's Degree in relevant subject or equivalent knowledge & experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Clearly demonstrable significant increase in depth and breadth of knowledge in relation to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy theory and practice
• 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 both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge of the TALKING THERAPIES model and a willingness to develop the service clinically.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience delivering specialist Cognitive Behaviour Therapy assessment and treatment of patients
• Experience of working with a wide variety of clients that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience and knowledge of supervision Experience of delivering group work.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required.
• Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
• Ability to cope and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances.
• Ability to cope with unpleasant working conditions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

L7F9 L7811 Talking Therapies Management

Preston

PR5 6GD

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