About this role
Job summary
Are you passionate about delivering meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients and wish to expand your skills and knowledge in a high performing service? Then Bedfordshire Talking Therapies is the service for you!
Bedfordshire Talking Therapies is an expanding Talking Therapies service that offers low and high intensity interventions in individual, couple and group formats. We consistently achieve excellent recovery and reliable improvement rates due to our focus on delivering flexible packages of care, designed to meet patient needs. We have specialist treatment programmes to support accessibility for patients and strive to be flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of our Bedfordshire population.
You will be joining a team who prioritise Quality Improvement, continuous professional development and staff thriving at work. Participation in focus groups, Quality Improvement projects and supporting further development of the service will be a key feature to this role.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is moving into a new phase of development and expansion. Your ideas and creativity would be welcomed in contributing to the delivery of an innovative service, which meets the needs of the local diverse community.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to carry out telephone and face to face assessments, individual and group work as part of their case load. We value experience of delivering therapy in a group format as well as being dual trained in more than one modality.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and work in various community settings (including GP surgeries) and psychological treatment centres or Children's Centres. At present, the majority of clinical work is delivered remotely, with a small provision of face-to-face contacts being offered from our clinical bases in Bedford and Dunstable and the surrounding communities.
As a Talking Therapies service we seek to provide ease of access for service users and to this end there will be a requirement to work flexible hours between 8am and 8 pm based on service requirements. Whilst this post is based in Bedfordshire you may, at times, be required to provide cover and assistance to other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams, for example supervision by the medium of Teams, cross service trainings, etc.
The post holder will be expected to work constructively and flexibly as part of the Bedfordshire Talking Therapies team and with colleagues in other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
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Person Specification
Educational qualification and training Essential
CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS/ Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS Or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology), trained in or willing to train in an IAPT modality such as PE CFD, IPT or DIT. Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist Qualified in one of the following modalities: Person centred experiential counselling for depression (PCECfD), Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT), Interpersonal therapy (IPT) or couples counselling for depression
Experience Essential
Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions to patients with common mental health problems Experience of running groups Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals. Experience of working in primary care psychological service
Knowledge & skills Essential
Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care Computer literate Excellent verbal and written communication skills Has received and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice Understanding of issues surrounding clinical safety Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
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).
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 East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Union Street Clinic
Union Street
Bedford
MK40 2SF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)