CAMHS High Intensity CBT Practitioner

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us ., · Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
· Assess clients for suitability for therapy / 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.
To draw appropriately from a range of assessment tools and methodologies. To interpret and integrate complex data and information from a variety of sources to develop psychological formulations and identify the most relevant intervention strategy. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
· Provide clinical supervision to and support the psychological work of other clinical staff that provides psychologically based care and treatment.
· 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.
· Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification., · To deliver CBT within a defined locality/team and maintain a high quality service within CAMHS, Gloucestershire.
· To provide clinical services within a stepped care model in the defined service area, within a Multi-disciplinary Team comprising of; Psychological Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Medics, Creative Therapists, students and trainees.
· Provide clinical supervision within the CAMHS CBT team to less experienced therapists as job planned.
· The team will be operational within Gloucestershire
· Services may be delivered in a wide range of settings and locations: educational facilities, GP practices, office/clinic etc. Though are primarily clinic based.
· To establish and maintain effective communications within and external to the CAMHS service, within Gloucestershire's health services and partner agencies and organisations.
· To provide training, consultancy and supervision in CBT and psychological approaches to a range of qualified/unqualified mental health/non mental health staff within primary mental health, primary care, secondary mental health care in Gloucestershire and to other agencies as required.
· Flexible working arrangements within 37.5 hours per week, with core service hours of 9:00am to 17:00pm
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
+ Free car parking at many of our sites
+ 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
+ A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
+ A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
+ Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
+ Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
+ Recognition and long service awards
+ Fast Track physiotherapy
+ Our Wellbeing line
+ Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Salary Update
With effect from 1 April 2024, there is a 5.5 per cent consolidated uplift for all Agenda for Change (AfC) staff on NHS terms and conditions. This may change the salary that is advertised on this advert.
The national NHS Employers team are working through the processes required to implement the recently announced new Agenda for Change pay award for 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. The related national Pay Advisory Notice (which confirms the details including dates) is yet to be issued to employers.
If there is any further information, we will ensure you are updated accordingly.

+ Hold children, young people and families voice at the centre of all that we do
+ Have strong experience and clinical skills and hold a caseload in line with usual CBT High Intensity IAPT job plan expectations.
+ Share our trust values-based approach of working together, always improving, being respectful and kind and making a difference.
+ Hold a High Intensity IAPT or CYPIAPT Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent. While a Core professional qualification such as counselling psychology, nursing or social work is desirable we are keen to explore what staff without these Core Professions could bring to our team. With no core profession we would ask that the therapist provide evidence of meeting the knowledge & skills framework requirements to become accredited with the BABCP
+ The opportunity to expand your skills and experience with children and young people with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
+ 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
+ 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
+ 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
+ 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.