Senior CBT HI Practitioner

To support a team of CBT HI Practitioners and Trainees, providing

clinical guidance, case management, and line management. To provide wellbeing

support in addition to ensuring a high quality of client care and the

achievement of service KPIs.

To contribute to the efficiency and quality of LWC services,

supporting with the allocations process, audits, and monitoring.

To work alongside the Clinical Director, Clinical Lead, Team

Leaders, and other members of the leadership team to ensure continuous service

improvement and effective clinical governance.

Line

manage a team of staff, including CBT HI Practitioners and Trainees, providing

wellbeing support, feedback on performance, and organisational updates.

Conduct

relevant meetings with staff in accordance with the employee cycle including

one-to-one meetings, probation reviews, and annual reviews.

Attend

clinical governance meetings and feedback regarding team performance or any

issues raised by staff.

Provide

effective communication across the service, within teams, to senior managers,

and individual practitioners.

Complete

caseload audits and feedback to practitioners around good practice or areas for

improvement.

Provide

clinical supervision to practitioners delivering within the service.

Ensure

service KPIs are met by regularly reviewing data and providing support to

practitioners.

Have

responsibility for ensuring KPIs are met within relevant teams.

Review

and analyse data, identifying areas for service improvement and making

recommendations to senior management.

Complete

allocations ensuring clients are put forward for the best course of treatment

according to their needs.

Input

all necessary information into agreed databases.

Provide

operational cover and support during absence such as annual leave or sickness.

Assess

and support people with a common mental health problem in the self-management

of their recovery

Undertake

patient-centred interviews to identify areas where the person wishes to see

change and or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and

others.

Maintain

a small caseload of clients.

Offer

shadowing opportunities and peer support to Trainee CBT HI Practitioners.

Support

with clinical queries across LWC, including from referrals teams and qualified

practitioners.

Make

decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services referral

protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to

the referral agent as necessary or step-up the persons treatment to high

intensity.

Work

closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and

step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.

Input

client information into agreed databases, ensuring notes are succinct, clear,

and relevant.

Attend

clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Line Manager.

Providing

feedback regarding policies, processes, and clinical structures to ensure

continuous service development.

Follow

all risk and safeguarding policies and procedures.

Ensure

client confidentiality is protected at all times and GDPR is adhered to.

Participate

in individual performance reviews and follow up on agreed objectives.

Maintain

records around professional development and staff support.

Contribute

to the development of best practice within the service.

Work

within data protection legislation and LWC data policies.

Maintain

up to date knowledge of legislation, national, and local policies and

procedures in relation to mental health and primary care services.

Adapt

and respond to change within the organisation as it grows and develops to

ensure client care and performance targets are achieved.

Attend

relevant meetings and supervision sessions, following up on any agreed actions.

Undertake

training as required by the organisation.

To

work within organisations policies and procedures.

Undertake

such other duties commensurate with the role.

To

understand and work with the ethos, aims and objectives of LWC.

The Living Well Consortium is a network of over 40

third sector organisations working to improve the mental health and wider

wellbeing of the local people. We offer high quality, responsive, specialist

services and initiatives including one-to-one counselling services, culturally

sensitive support, guided self-help, relaxation techniques, telephone

counselling, and other accredited talking therapies.

We have been successful in securing contracts with NHS Birmingham and

Solihull Integrated Care Board to develop and deliver new approaches to

psychological support to people in the community in Birmingham and Solihull,

under the NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) programme.

We aim to position the Consortium to be able to

take a leading role in the design and delivery of mental health and wellbeing

services across the region and wider areas of the West Midlands, and to enable

voluntary sector organisations to work together to respond to the current

funding challenges in the health and charitable sectors.

Experience

Qualifications