Cbt Therapist - London, United Kingdom - Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large and dynamic IAPT service in a stimulating and unique inner London setting.

We are a well-establish team with particular expertise in health psychology for long-term physical health conditions.

You will be joining a large team of clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners with access to specialist cognitive-behavioural supervision.

Continuing professional development, including service-related research is actively encouraged.

We are part of Homerton Healthcare and have strong links with local GPs, secondary care services and voluntary sector providers as part of the City and Hackney Psychological Therapies Alliance.

Hackney is a particularly diverse borough, even within London, and this is reflected in the range of people we see and the problems that we treat.

The posts are located at St Leonard's Hospital, Nuttall Street, London N1 5LZ and the post holders would be expected to travel to other acute and primary care sites in Hackney.

Main duties include:

To work closely with other psychological therapists working in Primary Care
To develop and maintain good working relationships with staff in the Primary Care Clinical Psychology Team, with the purpose of facilitating client care, planning and dissemination of relevant information
To liaise with relevant others in the City and Hackney Psychological Therapies Alliance and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a client's
To communicate highly sensitive and complex information to clients, relatives, and non

- psychologists in easily understood Requiring empathy, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills as there may be barriers to acceptance and the atmosphere may be highly emotive or hostile, e.g., issues involving child protection, sexual abuse, domestic violence.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients.

In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.