Clinical Psychologist / Cognitive Behaviour Therapist

To provide, develop and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service to clients with anxiety disorders including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training as required. To contribute to service evaluation, research and policy development. To contribute to the clinic's culture of continual improvement, and develop and foster new areas of specialism within the clinic.

To provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area which will contribute to CBT for anxiety and related disorders across primary, secondary and tertiary care.

To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with complex mental health needs, in particular those with anxiety and related disorders.

To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for providing CBT for clients with anxiety and related disorders

To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within CADAT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in CBT and anxiety, and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.

To provide professional and clinical supervision to assistant psychologist for all aspects of their work.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and developingservices.

To provide expertise in a specialist research area which will contribute to CBT for anxiety and related disorders.

To contribute to the development of services through initiating, undertaking and supervising service evaluation and audit.

To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up CADATs client group.

To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for service delivery, as well as the clinical and professional supervision and support of assistant psychologist within the service area as appropriate.

The Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma's remit includes the delivery and dissemination of empirically validated cognitive-behavioural treatments for panic disorder, specific phobias, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. The clinic provides a model of best practice in the integration of research, development and clinical treatment. Most of the treatments delivered are considered to be at the cutting edge of developments in the field. The clinic is primarily an NHS treatment service for people with anxiety disorders. Some research is also done at the clinic, with a focus on identifying maintaining cognitive factors in anxiety disorders, enhancing the effectiveness of existing cognitive therapies, evaluating how well these programmes generalise, reducing the therapist time required for treatment without loss of effectiveness, developing and implementing effective programmes for training others, and identifying key change processes in cognitive therapy.

Please see the following website for further information:

https: //slam.nhs.uk/service-detail/service/centre-for-anxiety-disorders-and-trauma-112/

Qualifications

Desirable: - BABCP accredited practitioner, or in process

Experience

Essential: - oExperience of assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature relevant to this post (A/I)

Desirable: - Experience of working from a CBT framework; - Experience of working within IAPT services; - Experience of having initiated service improvements

Knowledge / skills