Trainee Psychological Therapist (CBT)

Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership, This is a training role within the Adult Eating Disorders Service. This role is a 2-year fixed term appointment leading to a permanent CBT Therapist post at the end of this period if the postgraduate diploma programme is completed successfully. The post-holder will work within the service providing formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post-holder will work in the service for 4 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme for the other day.
In the first year of the programme, the four days a week on placement will be split between the eating disorder service and an IAPT service. In the second year of the programme all four placement days will be based in the eating disorder service.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
Please note that we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a high level of response to this advertisement., 1.1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
1.2. Assess clients for suitability for CBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for a trainee therapist, to refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
1.3. 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.
1.4. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
1.5. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
1.6. 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.
1.7. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
1.8. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
1.9. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
1.10.Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and stepdown arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
1.11. Assess and integrate issues surrounding occupation and employment into the overall therapy process

Working for our organisation
The Eating Disorders Service (EDS), based at St Ann's Hospital in Haringey and is part of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust. It is a substantial, well-established facility with a regional catchment area that offers a specialist service to adults (17.5 years upwards) with a primary Eating Disorder. The EDS provides a service for the three local boroughs of Haringey, Barnet and Enfield as well Camden, Islington, Tower Hamlets, City & Hackney and Newham, which comprises a population of five and a half million.
The multidisciplinary EDS offers a comprehensive range of therapeutic interventions including intensive inpatient care, a day programme, community liaison work, and outpatient services. The Psychological Therapies Team, a significant part of the EDS, includes qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Assistant Psychologists, a Family Therapist, a Research Assistant and an Art Therapist. We also regularly have trainee Clinical and Counselling Psychologists on placement within our team. Managerial and professional accountability are to a Principal Psychologist who, in turn, reports managerially to the Service Lead of the EDS.