Overview

This is a training role within one of the well-established NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression (TT) in the Black Country, which comprises of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. The post-holder will be embedded within the TT service, providing high-intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role.

The PG Dip. will be delivered by Coventry University, and candidates must also apply directly to the university

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This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients with a range of difficulties for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Therapy will be delivered on video or face-to-face. The role is locality-based, where travel will be required between sites where necessary, whilst also delivering telephone or virtual appointments across the Black Country footprint. The working week split will be subject to service need and course requirements.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service and assess clients for suitability for CBT
  • Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
  • Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
  • Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
  • Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
  • Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals 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
  • Work closely with other members of the team, ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
  • Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.

 

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • Hold a relevant qualification.

 

Expereince

Essential

  •  Have 12 months of mental health experience.
  • Ability to manage own caseload and time.

Desirable

  • experience of working in Primary Care.

 

Knowledge

Essential

  • demonstrate an understanding of anxiety and depression.

Desirable

  • knowledge of medication used for common mental health conditions.

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is 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.

 

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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