• Job Description

  Req#: C9363-24-0408?language=en&page=1145&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Bedfordshire Talking Therapies is an expanding Talking Therapies service. The service offers low and high intensity interventions in individual, couple and group formats. We are looking forward to an experienced CBT therapist/Psychologist/Talking Therapies Compliant Therapist to join our creative Management Team.

  If you are a CBT Therapist, Counsellor or Clinical / Counselling Psychologist who is accredited and has extensive experience of delivering interventions within a Talking Therapies recognised talking therapies service then we are looking for you!

  Main duties of the job

  You will be expected to be able to travel and work across the county and work one late evening.

  This is an exciting opportunity to join the team, your ideas and creativity would be welcome in contributing to the development of an effective and innovative service which meets the needs of the local diverse community

  About us

  Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service is one of the three Talking Therapies services run and administered by East London NHS Foundation Trust, the others being Newham Talking Therapies and Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies. The Talking Therapies services are located organisationally in the Specialist Services Directorate and work together on joint projects.

  Date posted

  05 March 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  6 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  363-SSLB5996457

  Job locations

  Gilbert Hitchcock House

  Bedford

  MK40 2NU

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We are looking for a Team Leader who will work alongside our other Team Leaders; you will report into and be supported by the Deputy Clinical Leads and Clinical Lead. You will hold a clinical caseload of step three presentations to whom individual and group treatments are provided. Clinical and case management supervision of clinicians will be an integral part of the job. Monitoring performance against KPI targets at the individual clinical level and the service level will also form part of your role. You will also be given specific projects to run and co-ordinate.

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  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We are looking for a Team Leader who will work alongside our other Team Leaders; you will report into and be supported by the Deputy Clinical Leads and Clinical Lead. You will hold a clinical caseload of step three presentations to whom individual and group treatments are provided. Clinical and case management supervision of clinicians will be an integral part of the job. Monitoring performance against KPI targets at the individual clinical level and the service level will also form part of your role. You will also be given specific projects to run and co-ordinate.

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  Person Specification

  Education/ Qualification/Training

  Essential

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (BABCP accredited)
  • OR HCPC registered Counselling or Clinical Psychologist or another Talking Therapy compliant Therapy

  Desirable

  • OR Counsellor with Talking Therapies compliant therapy
  • Relevant registration and accreditation status
  • Plus Accredited practitioner and supervisor.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of managing and supervising professionals from different backgrounds.
  • Experience in developing services to respond to User needs.
  • Work as an experienced psychologist/psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one Psychological therapy modality.
  • Excellence and experience in the continuous improvement of high and/or low intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers, with experience of delivering this within primary care and or a Talking Therapy compliant service.
  • Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
  • Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
  • Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources.

  Knowledge and Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent reporting and presentation skills
  • Able to provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
  • Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
  • Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
  • Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
  • Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
  • Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
  • Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
  • Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
  • Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
  • Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
  • Knowledge of, and ability to apply, government/advisory body frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health.
  • Knowledge of mental health and primary care systems.
  • Understanding and experience of carrying out audit, clinical governance and clinical effectiveness procedures.
  • Able to plan, organise and prioritise a complex workload.
  • Basic keyboard skills.
  • Able to record and report on clinical information.
  • Competent in use of IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet. Competent use of clinical data systems to record and report on performance activity.
  • Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
  • Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group.
  • Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group
  • Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
  • Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need.

  Other

  Essential

  • Able to work to professional guidelines.
  • Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice, of being guided by precedent and of working towards defined results.

  Person Specification

  Education/ Qualification/Training

  Essential

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (BABCP accredited)
  • OR HCPC registered Counselling or Clinical Psychologist or another Talking Therapy compliant Therapy

  Desirable

  • OR Counsellor with Talking Therapies compliant therapy
  • Relevant registration and accreditation status
  • Plus Accredited practitioner and supervisor.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of managing and supervising professionals from different backgrounds.
  • Experience in developing services to respond to User needs.
  • Work as an experienced psychologist/psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one Psychological therapy modality.
  • Excellence and experience in the continuous improvement of high and/or low intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers, with experience of delivering this within primary care and or a Talking Therapy compliant service.
  • Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
  • Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
  • Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources.

  Knowledge and Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent reporting and presentation skills
  • Able to provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
  • Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
  • Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
  • Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
  • Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
  • Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
  • Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
  • Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
  • Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
  • Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
  • Knowledge of, and ability to apply, government/advisory body frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health.
  • Knowledge of mental health and primary care systems.
  • Understanding and experience of carrying out audit, clinical governance and clinical effectiveness procedures.
  • Able to plan, organise and prioritise a complex workload.
  • Basic keyboard skills.
  • Able to record and report on clinical information.
  • Competent in use of IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet. Competent use of clinical data systems to record and report on performance activity.
  • Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
  • Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group.
  • Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group
  • Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
  • Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need.

  Other

  Essential

  • Able to work to professional guidelines.
  • Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice, of being guided by precedent and of working towards defined results.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East London NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Gilbert Hitchcock House

  Bedford

  MK40 2NU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East London NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Gilbert Hitchcock House

  Bedford

  MK40 2NU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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