Specialist Psychological Therapist: Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Job summary

We're looking for an experienced CBT therapist and supervisor to join our welcoming and dynamic East Sussex CAMHS. This position is open to BABCP accredited CBT therapists and also HCPC registered clinical psychologists specialising in CBT who are BABCP accredited or accreditable. You should have a strong background in providing CBT to children, young people and families, and demonstrable experience of providing supervision within CAMHS or CYP services. It would be desirable for candidates to have additional CBT supervision training, and some experience of teaching, training and leadership, as part of this role. This post is open as a Band 7 to Band 8A preceptorship role. Progression to Band 8A is dependent upon successful completion of the PG-Certificate in CBT Supervision (or equivalent experience) and additional Band 8A key competencies within a specified timeframe, as outlined in the attached documents.

Main duties of the job

As a senior member of the East Sussex CAMHS team, you would participate in the core multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention work of the team and engage in multi-agency liaison work as necessary. You would also be required to participate in the supervision, training and the overall governance requirements of SPFT CAMHS.

While holding a small clinical caseload, you will have the opportunity to provide support and supervision to a growing CBT workforce and contribute to our CBT leadership team across the wider Sussex CAMHS service, regarding innovative ways of developing our CBT offer.

You'd part of a very busy but lively and welcoming CAMHS team, which offers a wide range of individual, group and systemic interventions, and is involved in a number of innovative evaluation and research projects and service developments. As such, you would be encouraged to develop your skills, ideas and interests to further your expertise and that of the team, in accordance with service needs.

About us

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
• Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
• With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full role responsibilities and person specifications for this post. After reading both the Band 7 and Band 8A job descriptions, please specify if you are applying for the 8A post, or the 7 to 8A Preceptorship opportunity, within your application. If the successful candidate has not yet completed the Post-graduate Certificate in CBT Supervision, then they would be expected to complete this during their preceptorship period. This is a funded course.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the appendix
• Professionally registered as specified in the Appendix

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
• Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
• A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
• Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
• Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
• A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix