Trainee CBT Therapist - Strides Eating Disorder Service

• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals
• Assess clients for suitability for CBT.
• 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.
• To be responsible for implementing interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.
• 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.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
• To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient's care.
• Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from senior clinician.
• Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards for accreditation.
• Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post
• Apply learning from the training programme in practice
• To attend Staff Group with other colleagues in the service when possible .
• To undertake all mandatory training that is relevant to the post, including updates.

• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in work
• To undertake appropriate research/audit and provide research.
• To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation.
• To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with, the Trust's requirements on research governance.

Essential

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry / general practice), psychological therapy (UKCP registered), Psychology (clinical, counselling, forensic or health). Please see the BABCP website for more detail of accepted qualifications. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers

Essential

• Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
• Computer literate
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients

Essential

• Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post