About this role
Job summary
Temporary CBT Therapist - Sexual Abuse and Assault Pathway (6-month contract - part time 22.5 hours per week)
We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-organised CBT Therapist to join our Sexual Abuse and Assault Pathway in North Staffordshire. This post will work exclusively within the Sexual Assault services pathway delivered in partnership by North Staffordshire Combined NHS Trust, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, VCSE partners (Survive and Women's Aid), and the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
This is a temporary six-month post providing high-intensity psychological interventions, initially focused on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The postholder will work with individuals presenting to mental health services with difficulties related to complex trauma.
The successful candidate will manage and assess referrals in line with service protocols, undertaking autonomous assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions. The role requires sensitive and compassionate engagement with clients and, where appropriate, their families, while contributing to a stepped-care approach through close multidisciplinary and multi-agency collaboration. Additional responsibilities include maintaining accurate clinical records and data, meeting agreed activity targets to support timely access to care, and contributing to service evaluation and improvement activities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will manage and assess referrals in line with service protocols, undertaking autonomous assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions. The role requires sensitive and compassionate engagement with clients and, where appropriate, their families, while contributing to a stepped-care approach through close multidisciplinary and multi-agency collaboration. Additional responsibilities include maintaining accurate clinical records and data, meeting agreed activity targets to support timely access to care, and contributing to service evaluation and improvement activities.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description Job responsibilities
Key Duties/Responsibilities
1. CLINICAL
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments 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. Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological 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 Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback. Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients. Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals / individuals / groups / committees across Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision. 2. TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
Attend and fulfil all the requirements of BABCP approved supervision training. Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service. After completion of supervision training, supervise staff in the service. 3. PROFESSIONAL
Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g. BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g. NHS plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence). Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times. Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies. Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD). Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives. Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments. Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional objectives. Participate in service improvement by highlighting issues and implementing changes in practice. 4. ADVISORY / LIAISON
Provide an advisory service on matters related to the practice and delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to individuals/groups/committees across the Mental Health Trust, Primary Care Trust and other voluntary agencies. Promote and maintain links with Primary Care and Secondary Care Staff to help co-ordinate the provision of an effective Psychological Therapies Service.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Professional qualification in health or social care (or postgraduate training and qualifications in another sector to enable equivalent levels of responsibility with the client group in that setting) Post-graduate diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or an equivalent course) BABCP Accredited OR Equivalent
Desirable
Further training in trauma or EMDR; Leadership or management qualification
Experience Essential
Extensive post-qualification experience delivering CBT for trauma and complex presentations Demonstrated clinical leadership or team management experience Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required. Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services Significant experience in providing CBT
Desirable
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency health setting
Skills Essential
Committed to compassionate, trauma-informed care; Promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion; Reflective, resilient, and adaptable
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address Lancaster Building
Newcastle Under Lyme
ST5 1RH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)