Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

The post holder will be part of NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Talking Therapies. This post will support the service to ensure that national guidelines are adhered to, targets are achieved and that the clinical governance arrangements are in place.

To provide evidence based psychological interventions to patients at step 3, across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non‑psychologist colleagues and to other, non‑professional carers, working under supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

• NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Talking Therapies SPA has been developed to provide a single point of access 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, staffed by clinicians and administration staff with the specialist skills needed to give advice promptly to GPs and other practitioners involved in providing care for people with mental health problems.
• This service provides help to people aged 17 and over who are experiencing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders, including: generalised anxiety disorder (GAD); social anxiety; post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); health anxiety; panic; phobias and obsessive‑compulsive disorder (OCD). The service also works with people with long term physical health conditions (LTCs) including coronary heart disease (CHD), respiratory problems, chronic pain, and diabetes.
  
  The main treatment offered is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), however, a range of different therapy modalities are also used to help treat patients.
• To 'signpost' or guide people to appropriate treatments for their needs, or provide advice, information, and guidance to those referring patients to enable increased self‑management by the patient of common mental health conditions. Support people who make self‑referrals to Mental Health Services and their carers.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Offer a same day triage of referrals.
• Co‑ordinate and lead for shifts as required.
• To provide the initial telephone clinical triage as required of referrals to the Talking Therapies service.
• To gather further information as required from referrer or other providers to help support a clinical outcome decision.
• Identify the appropriate intervention or management required and process to the appropriate CPFT pathway or 3rd sector agency.
• Provide completed outcome reports/letters containing the necessary information of a high standard.
• Have excellent telephone communication skills.
• Be conversant and proactive with Government legislation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, National Service…