Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

We are looking to recruit a four day a week Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our Central Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, working alongside a senior psychotherapist and well established Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Your role will be multi-faceted with an emphasis on helping the wider team embed a 5-P formulation approach to understand and manage both the risk and treatment plans of their clients. You will regularly deliver team training and ongoing consultation to other staff to enable them to have confidence in delivering brief CBT and DBT informed skills workbooks to clients as part of the treatment approach. Alongside this you will regularly see clients to assess, formulate and deliver short to medium term CBT interventions.

The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; you will sit within a friendly and supportive wider Adult Acute Psychology Team that comprises of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapist, an Art Therapist as well as assistants and trainees. This enables a strong support network and ensuring that your role within CRHT considers the wider emergency care pathway including inpatient services; as well as other services CRHT clients may be discharged too such as wellbeing or adult community teams.

Main duties of the job

As the successful candidate you will be skilled and have confidence in working with adults who present with a broad range of mental health difficulties who are experiencing a high level of distress and/or engaging in risky behaviours.

- Provision of assessments/formulations to clients under CRHT.

- Delivering short to medium term CBT interventions to a select number of clients who have been under CRHT as part of their ongoing discharge/recovery plan.

- Attendance and contribution at MDT handovers to support psychological thinking and the embedding of the 5 p formulation approach to risk.

- Provision of reflective practice, supervision and support to the wider team.

- Provision of informal and formal training to enable staff to deliver brief psychological interventions using the CBT/DBT workbooks.

- Working with family and carers where appropriate as well as wider third sector agencies offering advice, support and psycho-education to help aid the client's recovery pathway.

- Maintain timely, accurate and up to date record keeping in accordance with Trust and professional standards.

- Work closely with the senior psychotherapist, as well as the wider acute psychology team, to provide optimum care and communication to both clients and colleagues.

We can provide high quality supervision and support with opportunities for further training locally. Applicants from those wishing to work part-time would be welcomed

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.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.