Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

JOB TITLE: Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
DEPARTMENT: Adult Community Mental Health Team
LOCATION/BASE ADDRESS: Windsor House, Windsor Road, Fairfiled Industrial Estate, Louth. LN11 0LF
BAND AND SALARY: Band 7
NUMBER OF HOURS: 0.8wte (30hrs per week)
TEMP/PERM (END DATE IF FIXED TERM): Permanent contract
There has never been a more exciting time to join community mental health care. We are transforming how individuals access mental health care, there is a lot of intervention in mental health and wellbeing, and we want to invest in all tiers of care. The Community Mental Health Teams are located within the Adult Community Mental Health Division and our mission is to provide high quality psychological services to adults who live in Lincolnshire and are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
The East Community Mental Health Services are seeking an enthusiastic Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our Louth Community Mental Health Team. Being fully embedded in the multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will be supporting the team, and our wider locality teams to embed psychological mindedness across the MDT. As such this post will involve liaising with other professionals across the MDT.
The post holders will provide assessment and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a range of mental health related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective within the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT).
The roles will be supported by the East Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist, alongside the CBT supervisor. Regular management and clinical supervision will be provided by qualified supervisors. The service has a strong commitment towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD), staff wellbeing and providing quality services.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
To contribute to discussions the MDT regarding CBT interventions and adhering to the department’s allocation protocols, and signpost clients who require other services on to the relevant service as necessary.
To assess, formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
Attend meetings relating to allocations or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
To work closely with other members of the team ensuring effective MDT working in response to patient need.
To attend clinical supervision

Please refer the Job description for details