Cbt Therapist/psychological Therapist - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Warrington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Warrington Recovery Team are specialist secondary care community mental health Team.

We are looking for a motivated person who is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to join us and be part of a large team of psychologists, senior CBT/EMDR therapist, assistant psychologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers, psychiatry and soon to be peer workers.

You will be joining a hard working and busy team providing holistic care/therapies with people who experience symptoms of psychosis, bipolar, severe anxiety related difficulties, depression and PTSD.

Your role would be to provide CBT as per NICE guidance within our Recovery Team.

We in Warrington are at the forefront of Mersey Care's Community Mental Health Transformation. We are working in partnership with our Primary Care colleagues to provide a seamless mental health offer. Our Recovery Teams provide high quality intervention-based care in both high and low intensity formats.

We follow an easy in, timed approach to care as we want to ensure people get the right level of care at the right time.

You will receive regular supervision from a qualified CBT therapist and clinical psychologist.

Further training opportunities will be available and you will be supported to follow CPD opportunities to further develop your career.

To work as part of the mulit-disciplinary team at the Warrington Recovery Team, providing a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to clients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on client's psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate's and team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate.

To evaluate and make 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.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plans.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clien