A vacancy has arisen within the St Helens Childen and Young Persons Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) team for a qualified CBT Therapist. The post holder will provide a specialised role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways for children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
Working in St Helens CYPMHS, you will be responsible for providing highly specialist cognitive behaviour therapy for children and young people experiencing complex psychological and socioenvironmental problems. This is in line with national and local drivers and within the Thrive model framework which is the delivery model for CYPMHS in Mersey Care. You will also support other staff including trainees and be expected to offer supervision where appropriate.
The postholder will provide high-intensity interventions - initially cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in the perinatal period. To accept referrals and agreed protocols within the service and work as part of an MDT.
Adhere to agreed activity contracts relating to the number of client contracts offered and clinical sessions carried out per week, in order to minimise working times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient. I want to work with people of different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary, and I should be committed to equal opportunities.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Clinical:
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the specialist perinatal service.
Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions in line with the specialist perinatal psychological model of care.
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.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for women and birthing people in the perinatal period.
Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties, including bonding and attachment difficulties.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of women and birthing people in line with the service.
Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language, and all the while keeping the baby, couple and family in mind.
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.
Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring stepped formulation driven care is delivered to maintain a matched-care approach.
Assess and integrate issues surrounding the wider context of people's lives into the overall therapy process.
Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.
Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals / individuals / groups / committees across Parent-Infant Mental Health Services, Maternity, Health Visiting, Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and other voluntary agencies regarding service matters related
to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.
Training and Supervision:
Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the Specialist Perinatal Service approved supervision training and whole service training programme in perinatal mental health.
Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service.
After completion of supervision training, supervise staff in the service.
Professional:
Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g., BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g., NHS plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
Be aware of and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other psychological therapies in the perinatal period.
Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager and Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
Attend relevant conferences / workshops relevant to perinatal and parent-infant mental health, in line with identified professional objectives.
Participate in service improvement by highlighting issues and implementing changes in practice.
Advisory / Liaison:
Provide an advisory service on matters related to the practice and delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to individuals/groups/committees across the Mental Health Trust, Primary Care Trust and other voluntary agencies.
Promote and maintain links within the wider system to help co-ordinate the provision of an effective Psychological Therapies Service.
General:
To contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and procedures in relation to Perinatal and Parent-Infant Mental Health, Maternity, Health Visiting and Primary Care Services.
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Oct 2024