An opportunity has arisen in the Barnet Counselling Service for an experienced and suitably qualified Lead to work alongside our existing Counselling Lead. The Counselling Service is part of an established Talking Therapies with CBT therapists, PWPs, support staff and trainees.
Applicants should be accredited with the BACP/registered with BCP/UKCP or an NCS accredited professional. Substantial managerial, supervisory and clinical experience and working within Talking Therapies/NHS primary care mental health services is required.
The postholder will be responsible for the co-ordination of the Counselling service which provides a range of time-limited counselling therapies and work to the delivery of national NHS Talking Therapies KPIs as outlined by NHS England. The postholder will supervise and line manager the counselling team, be responsible for their governance and work with other senior colleagues with providing support and cover for senior duties.

It is expected that the postholder, as the team manager, work on site at least 2 days a week and and evenings, as required. We require the postholder to work Wednesdays, Thursdays and either a Monday/Friday.

The postholder will work alongside other senior colleagues and receive supervision from the Clinical Lead.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will:

1. Be responsible for the supervision and management of the counselling service, as well as its overall governance

2. Monitor and manage waiting lists

3. Support senior cover for the team alongside other members of the Barnet senior management team in Talking Therapies, which includes referral screening, assessment feedback and cover for evening clinics.

4. Carry a small clinical caseload of clients for counselling assessments and treatments.

5. Monitor delivery of performance targets for the counselling team and their contribution to overall service performance.

6. Review and support staff training and development.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached Job description for details of main responsibilities and also person specification and qualifications.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate diploma, masters degree or doctorate in Psychotherapy, Counselling, or Counselling Psychology
• Further training in a brief model of counselling or psychotherapy.
• Educated to Honours degree level
• Must be accredited with the BACP/ on the UKCP/BCP register/Accredited Professional Registrant with the NCS or accreditation as a psychotherapist/counsellor/psychologist with equivalent professional body.
• Post-qualification training in one or more additional evidence-based approaches to treatment in primary care mental health and Talking Therapies e.g. DIT, IPT, CfD, Couples therapy as outlined in the IAPT Manual.
• Recognised supervision qualification or accreditation from an accredited supervision course of at least one year's duration.

Desirable

• Post-qualification specialist training from a substantive academic programme in mental health, clinical risk assessment, CBT principles

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive relevant post qualification clinical experience including working in a primary care setting and work with brief, focussed approaches and interventions.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems 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.
• Working knowledge and experience of a range of psychological therapies including time limited therapy as well as working to a theoretical model that is evidence-based and appropriate for brief, focused interventions appropriate for common mental health problems
• Experience of service development and management of people and resources
• Experience of designing, implementing and reporting on evaluation and research projects
• Experience of working in adult mental health services.
• Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS. Experience and/or training in management and leadership

Desirable

• Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology to different cultural contexts.
• Experience in working in with diverse patient groups & in different care settings such as outpatients, inpatient services.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological therapies/counselling assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Highly developed psychological therapies and counselling skills
• 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.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Clinical leadership skills and skills in line managing a staff group
• Knowledge of the IAPT programme excellent management & supervisory skills good IT skills excellent organisation, prioritisation and delegation skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Experience of leading and carrying out research projects and interpreting data using statistical analyses.
• Proven ability in carrying out clinical audits

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework and actively promoting diversity in the workplace and in clinical provision

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

1st Floor Westgate House

Edgware Community Hospital, Burnt Oak

Edgware

HA8 0AD

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306-BEH-2111