Band 7 CBT Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders Suffolk

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.

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

Job overview

Are you an experienced CBT therapist with a core profession looking for a new challenge? If you have the passion, drive, and commitment towards providing the very best psychological support to our Service Users we would love for you to come and join us in our Suffolk Specialist Adult Eating Disorders Service!

We’re seeking an experienced, pro-active, passionate, and motivated CBT therapist to join our well-established and thriving Adult Eating Disorder Service based across Suffolk. Our service provides highly specialist psychological treatment to adults over 18 years of age.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, the ability to work as part of our multi-disciplinary team, and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to service users lives then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and recruitment letter for further information. In summary, key responsibilities include:

• Delivering psychological treatment interventions to allocated service users.
• Conducting psychological assessment and formulations.
• Providing supervision and consultancy to other mental health professionals within the team and to network colleagues
• Participating in research and development activities.
• Working with the psychological therapies team to provide psychological containment, advice and support to the broader team and wider network.
• Supporting the continued implementation of the Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) strategy.
• Assessment and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology.
• Attending and contributing within regular meetings, such as: MDT, CPA, and s.117 reviews.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration in a recognised mental health profession
• BABCP accreditation (or working towards) as a CBT/Therapists (may have been gained following successful completion of High Intensity Therapist Training).
• Knowledge and experience acquired through relevant first professional qualification at degree or postgraduate degree level.

Experience

• Theoretical knowledge of CBT/Therapies and the application of appropriate models of practice, according to client need.

• Substantial experience in managerial/clinical supervision of others casework. Substantial experience in teaching/training others.

Skills

• Ability to expertly manage a complex caseload Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, ability to exercise judgement in identifying and assessing complicated events or problems.
• Advanced skills in assessment, formulation, engagement and interventions.

• Working knowledge of health legislation and current practice in mental health, including risk assessment and management.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of psychosocial interventions

• Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks.

Other

• Own transport which can be used for work purposes and ability to travel.

Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

YOUR APPLICATION

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post may be 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.