Senior Intensity Therapist

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The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

• A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)/ or counselling psychology/ a recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or a psychological therapy - plus further post graduate level diploma qualification training in a psychological therapy which may be CBT or another Talking Therapies appropriate evidence based therapy (i.e. IPT) to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma and/or Qualification from High Intensity Talking Therapies Course (Post Graduate CBT Diploma) or Accredited as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist by the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP) or nearing completion of accreditation process.
  
  Where relevant, professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC). Evidence of CPD as recommended by HPC/BPS/relevant professional regulatory body

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

• Experience of specialist Experience of supervising low- psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care / care psychology and/ or Talking Therapies service
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Formal specialist training in supervision of qualified psychologists/ psychological therapists and trainees
• Experience of training and supervising qualified and prequalification psychologists, and/or high intensity/ CBT therapists.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician, supervisor and team co-ordinator. Experience of work in a multicultural setting, including working with interpreters.

• Experience of supervising low- intensity therapists
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of teaching pre-qualification psychological therapists and other NHS staff. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Well-developed knowledge of evidence base for delivering high-intensity and low intensity interventions
• Knowledge of key NHS policy developments for psychological therapies and services generally and for Talking Therapies high/ low-intensity CBT in particular. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally
• Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT. Knowledge of service development issues including mental health and primary care mental health/ Talking Therapies

• Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of a range of settings within and outside the NHS . Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance

• Skills for facilitating communication in interventions with families and staff teams

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others Ability to effectively manage frequent…