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    Child and Young People's Therapist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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    We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced CBT therapist to join our Talking Therapies service in Knowsley.

    Our professional and supportive team of CBT therapists, PWPs, counsellors and support staff respond to the needs of adults experiencing common mental health difficulties.

    The team is involved in leading on projects linking with other teams across the trust, in addition to external agencies.

    This provides you with an opportunity to support service users from diverse backgrounds such as with long-term conditions, older adults and young people aged With a robust CPD offering and encouraged access to further training, the role provides a fantastic opportunity to creatively develop both the service and as an individual.

    Provide clinical supervision for staff who are providing High Intensity Therapy at Step 3.

    Provide advice and support for colleagues whose background is not in Step 3 High Intensity Therapy.

    Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.


    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.


    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.

    Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

    To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and any complex factors concerning the clients psychological needs.


    To communicate directly with clients, carers, relatives and other health professionals, complex and potentially emotive information regarding clients condition, treatment, prognosis, subject to ethical boundaries of confidentiality.


    Utilise and provide line management and clinical case management/supervision to ensure that care and treatment are tailored to service users, family and community needs and that learning needs are identified and acted upon to ensure personal development.


    Deliver high quality High Intensity Therapy in the catchment area working with complex Step 3 cases within a stepped care model.

    Undertake direct clinical work for people whose needs are complex, chronic or involve anxiety, OCD, PTSD, depression, or other clinical problems appropriate for Step 3 HIT therapy.

    Participate in multi-disciplinary care planning, risk assessment and risk management.

    Supervise qualified and unqualified HIT therapists.

    Post Graduate Diploma, or equivalent Post Graduate level CBT Training certificate which confers eligibility for BABCP accreditation or other IAPT approved accreditable body
    Has BABCP or other IAPT approved accreditable body accreditation or able to achieve Provisional Accreditation within one year
    Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and can demonstrates the competences as required.

    Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
    Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.
    Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/ benefits & employment systems
    Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems

    Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.

    Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation.
    Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops.
    Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this

    Experience of working in Primary Care Services
    Relevant experience in Primary Care treating anxiety and depression

    Computer literate.

    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.

    Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.

    Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision.

    The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system.


    Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation
    Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation.
    Fluent in languages other than English.

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre


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