Trainee Psychological Therapist (CBT)

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Trainee Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in CBT for Personality Disorder
An exciting opportunity has arisen to support training roles within Older Persons Mental Health Services. Applicants must have a core profession in Nursing, Occupational Therapy, or Social Work. In the first instance this is a Band 6, two-year fixed term contract.
The training is funded by Health Education England and delivered by the prestigious University College London. On successful completion of the Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorder and accreditation with the BABCP.
This intensive training post will equip the post holder to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to clients presenting with a range of complex difficulties in a secondary care setting. It is suitable for clinicians with experience in working with service users in either adult mental health or older persons adult mental health.
The successful post holder will deliver their newly developed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills for four days a week in a clinical setting within one of our Older Adults Mental Health Teams, and one day a week they will attend training at University College London.
This intensive training post will equip the post holder to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to clients presenting with a range of complex difficulties in a secondary care setting. It is suitable for clinicians with experience in working with service users in older people’s mental health.
The successful post holder will deliver their newly developed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills for four days a week in a clinical setting within one of our Older Adults Mental Health Teams, and one day a week they will attend training at University College London.
This is a Postgraduate level training and as such, you will need to perform at that level academically. In addition, applicants will be required to balance a busy work schedule with academic study. Applicants must be prepared to study outside protected time in order to complete course requirements.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
The post holder will be expected to carry a clinical case load applying the learning from the training directly to the clinical setting. This will involve a case load of individual CBT and other related clinical tasks.
Supervision will be provided both locally and from the course. As a member of the Psychological Therapies Directorate, you will have access to relevant CPD activities.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities

Please refer the Job description for details