Job vacancy: CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Lead, Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust, Hove

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Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 24 hours per week
Job ref: 354-CS-21538

Employer: Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aldrington Centre
Town: Hove
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59

CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· As an experienced CAMHS CBT therapist with leadership experience, you will ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist, multilevel CBT service that is outcomes focused, cost-effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical practice. You will also offer a Leadership of CBT interventions that aligns with Trust and Service Area objectives, national strategic, and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer needs and expectations.

Leading on the clinical supervision of high intensity cognitive behavioural therapists and related low intensity roles including Child Well-being Practitioners (CWPs)and Senior Well-being Practitioners (SWPs), to ensure safe and effective CBT delivery, and working with colleagues on providing appropriate governance. Supporting CBT, CWP and related recruitment and helping develop career development pathways.

· Evaluating CBT provision across community CAMHS services in collaboration with clinical leads and identifying development opportunities

· Contributing to / coordination of NICE guideline and other best practice review/audit relating to cognitive behavioural interventions.

· Collaborating with the Associate Clinical Director, professional and clinical leads in ensuring evidence-based delivery of group interventions within Community CAMHS, which are routinely evaluated and adapted to meet clinical need and in line with relevant literature.

· Overseeing the development and review of CBT-based resources, self-help and digital resources employed within the service.

· Collaborating with service leads to ensure an evidence-based 'Waiting Well' offer within CAMHS and access to evidence-based advice and support delivered by low intensity therapists.

· Liaising with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) regarding training opportunities, including Recruit-to-Train and CYP-MH (formerly CYP-IAPT) programmes.

· Liaising with HEIs and collaborating with professional leads and clinical leads to develop and implement a forward plan for delivery of high quality CBT supervision across roles including supervisors accessing formal PG Cert training where available.

· Leading on CBT and CWP practise network development and working with colleagues to identify and implement continued professional development events

Leading on the coordination of CBT skill development within the wider workforce, as indicated and ensuring appropriate supervision and clinical governance is established to support colleagues who are not formally trained in CBT or low intensity interventions, to use CBT skills whilst practicing within the scope of their experience and competencies.

· Leading the CAMHS CBT offer including the planned development of an OCD pathway, alongside colleagues to ensure effective implementation of the advice signposting as well as the high intensity treatment pathway for this client group., Working with professional and clinical leads to enable stepped-care delivery of evidence-based psychological therapies alongside psychiatry and other interventions.

· Maintaining relationships with key local and national partners (including local participation groups, the BABCP, CAMHS National and Specialist services, Universities, research projects and others) to ensure the very best CAMHS CBT service delivery.

· Supporting CBT therapists and CWP practitioners to gain BABCP accreditation and liaising with colleagues in other modalities around CBT training and accreditation opportunities

· Working closely with the Service innovation and outcomes lead for Community CAMHS to fully embed appropriate clinical outcomes measurement (including sessional goal tracking) throughout delivery of low and high intensity CB interventions.

Person specification

Criteria

Essential criteria

•Assessed experience of working as a qualified CYP-CBT therapist post-qualification, with extensive experience at a senior level working within NHS CAMHS services, providing leadership within pathways or teams.
• Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based CBT treatment of clients.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of presentations that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity seen within Specialist CAMHS.
• Extensive experience of teaching, training and supervision.
• Relevant post-qualification experience enabling the post holder to independently supervise trainees and qualified therapists in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by Universities delivering CYP-MH training programmes
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the psychological care and treatment of referred clients, and of working within a multidisciplinary context wherein carries responsibility for the psychological aspects of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of representing cognitive behavioural therapy within a multidisciplinary CAMHS context.
• Knowledge and experience of the principles of CYP-MH (formally CYP-IAPT), the national programme of work to expand the workforce delivering psychological therapies and specifically new roles including CWP and SWP.
• A BABCP recognised core health profession (OR KSA completed and submitted to acheive BABCP accreditation) and post-graduate level training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy OR post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC
• Full BABCP accreditation as both a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and CBT Supervisor
• Satisfactory completion of a CYP-MH Post-Graduate Certificate in Supervision in CYP-MH Services or an equivalent qualification in supervision or leadership or willing to undertake this in post

Desirable criteria

Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, supervision and/or other fields of psychological therapy.

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jodie Olliver
Job title: Head of Service, Sussex CAMHS
Email address: [email protected]

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