Senior Therapist - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Would you like the opportunity to use your CBT Therapist and Leadership skills with an Outstanding Trustone of only two Specialist Mental Health Trusts in England rated as Outstanding by the CQC?


We are seeking a Band 8A Senior Therapist to take up this much valued therapy leadership post supporting the warm and welcoming North Staffordshire Community CAMHS Team based at Dragon Square in Newcastle-Under-Lyme.

A mix of remote and office
- based working is available.


This is a new and innovative role bringing with it a fantastic opportunity to be part of a developing, multi-disciplinary adult community mental health service and providing clinical leadership to therapists and multi-disciplinary staff and nurturing the psychological mindedness of the team.


You will be working a varied case load, working with service users and their families with difficulties ranging across, for example, complex trauma, complex emotional and relational needs, depression, psychosis and challenging behaviour, in line with the post holders experience and competencies.

You will have opportunities to provide individual and group psychological intervention.


North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust was established in 1994 and provides mental health and learning disability care to people predominantly living in the city of Stoke-on-Trent and in North Staffordshire.

The Trust is one of the main providers of mental health, social care and learning disability services in the West Midlands.


We currently work from both hospital and community-based premises, operating from approximately 30 sites to approximately 464,000 people of all ages and diverse backgrounds in Stoke-on-Trent and across North Staffordshire.

Our main site is Harplands Hospital, which opened in 2001 and provides the setting for most of our inpatient units.

We provide services to people with a wide range of mental health and learning disability needs.

Sometimes our service users need to spend time in hospital, but much more often we are able to provide care in community settings and in people's own homes.


We also provide specialist mental health services such as child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), substance misuse services and psychological therapies, plus a range of clinical and non-clinical services to support University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM).


Communicates effectively with all professionals involved in the client's care including all members of the multi-disciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc., to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers.


Analyses highly complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the client's care.

Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

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