Senior CAMHS CBT Therapist

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a Senior CBT CAMHS service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Generic Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention.

Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychological therapies colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to the wider team colleagues and trainees.

Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, clinical/counselling psychology with appropriate up-to-date registration.
• To have completed a post-graduate accredited qualification in CBT

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including work with children.
• Experience of working with a variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable criteria

• CAMHS experience
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT within a mental health setting.
• Knowledge/skills in the theory and practice of CBT with children and young people.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• 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.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to use CYP IAPT outcome measures and integrate these into therapy

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 296.4KB)
• Important Additional Information For Candidates (please read carefully) (PDF, 160.6KB)
• Privacy Notice for Staff (PDF, 268.6KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.5MB)