CFHD are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced Cognitive Behaviour Therapist to join us as an 8a Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist.

This role offers strong evidence-based CBT into North Devon's multi-disciplinary service as well as developing and sustaining the CBT provision across the county, providing professional leadership for our growing group of CBT Practitioners. The role will be clinically based in North Devon (approximately 2 days per week face-to-face onsite required) with the opportunity for some flexibility of base within the remainder of the role.

Devon has the perfect work-life balance. You will spend your working hours with friendly and supportive colleagues as part of our innovative, integrated children's service, then spend your leisure time in this inspiring part of the country, with North Devon specifically being home to a World Surfing Reserve, the renowned UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, and beautiful Exmoor!

We would love to hear from experienced CBT colleagues who can bring advanced level clinical thinking and formulation, strengths in supervision and consultation, and be a compassionate leader within the service during an exciting time of development.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, you will work closely with the Leads for Psychological Professions to support and sustain the CBT Profession within CFHD, as well as provide lead contributions to service developments across the service.

You will bring advanced clinical skills to offer complex assessment, formulation, intervention, and consultation. You will bring strong clinical supervision skills and leadership capabilities that enable you to support colleagues as well as lead strategic development work. You will have proven experience working positively with inter-agency colleagues. You will have a vision for high-quality clinical services and be able to enhance the skills and practice of those around you.

There will be CPD opportunities specific to your pathway and to further progress your leadership capabilities.

You will work closely with, and be supported by, the Leads for Psychological Professions as well as your peer Professional Leads and Senior Clinical colleagues.

There is an enthusiastic group of CBT Practitioners across the county who will value the developments and cohesion that a professional lead will bring. We have a strong relationship with the local CYP IAPT Training course for CBT and support Trainee roles and Supervisor training across the county.

We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.

About us

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We work closely with other organisations and providers to ensure locality and county-wide based integrated access to all services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School, where we support students in clinical training placements and support our own staff to undertake postgraduate training.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient, and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant partnership that benefits the communities we serve.

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

In the Managing Mood, Emotions, and Relationships Pathway, CBT Practitioners work within a strong multi-disciplinary team, providing assessments and therapy to children with complex and enduring mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety-based disorders, and trauma. The multidisciplinary teams are diverse, including; Systemic Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Mental Health Practitioners from a range of backgrounds including Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Creative Therapies. This offers the opportunity for rich and nourishing shared clinical thinking and support.

You will be an accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist with notable post-qualifying experience, passion, and strengths for working with children, young people, and their families. You will have strong leadership skills, bringing a compassionate framework to your work.

In this role, you would work with children, young people, and families to understand their experiences and presenting concerns to provide appropriate evidence-based interventions. You would provide consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and work closely with inter-agency partners as required.

You would provide supervision to Cognitive Behaviour Therapists and other colleagues as appropriate, as well as further support the development of others through training. There will also be the opportunity to engage with and lead areas of service development and research, as well as wider activities to support developing leadership skills.

You will be committed to service user participation and collaborative working with children, young people, parents, carers, and families. You will have a good understanding of safeguarding across the lifespan.

You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring to a multidisciplinary team. You will have advanced skills and knowledge to support the development of others through supervision, consultation, and training.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity, including maintaining professionalism in highly emotive and distressing situations and verbal abuse.
• Experience undertaking specialist mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with highly complex mental health problems, including risk assessments.
• Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training, and assessing in clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, e.g., recognized qualification as a high-intensity IAPT Therapist.
• Fully accredited member of the BABCP.
• Post-qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people, with evidence of continuing professional development in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy.
• Post-qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision, with formal training and experience in supervising other CBT therapists.
• Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy or equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to child and adolescent mental health.
• High-level knowledge of mental health presentations in children and adolescents and the theory and practice of evidence-based clinical interventions.
• Knowledge of child development.
• Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others, including service users and professionals.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a disclosure check will be required through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 per year, pro-rata (30 hours per week)