Trainee CBT Therapist

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

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

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post-holder will work to provide formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post–holder to provide a CBT service to service users with a range of complex presentations for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post-holder will work in the service for 4 days of the week using the newly developed skills, whilst attending the training programme for the other day. Due to the complexity of the service users in the CRHTT teams it may be that some cases are taken from other services such as wellbeing in the early stages of training.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As the successful candidates’ skills develop the complexity of the cases will also develop.
Offering assessment and formulations to cases felt to be appropriate for the level of training
Identifying service users who may benefit form Evidence based CBT interventions
Developing formulations for the team

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

NHS England sets the expectation that a person has a ‘Core mental Health profession’. This is MH nursing, social worker and Occupational therapist and CAP’s who are BPS registered (with additional knowledge requirements) if they have been qualified for 2 years. Applicants who have not got a core profession will need to demonstrate sufficient previous training and knowledge to achieve the standard set out by the BABCP KSA route.