Band 7 High Intensity Counsellor
Posted 1 day 12 hours ago by CNWL
£56,276 - £63,176 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Not Specified, United Kingdom
Job Description
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Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
There's a place for you at CNWL.
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
To help your onboarding go smoothly, it's essential that internal applicants:
Use their NHS.net email address in their TRAC profile
Ensure your application is marked to show that you are a current CNWL staff member
Applications using personal email addresses (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo) will not be recognised, and the process simply won't work. There is also a charge to change new starter personal email addresses to their nhs.net email address.
Before you apply:
Log into TRAC and update your email to your NHS.net address
Check your application details and make sure you are identified as an internal applicant
This small step helps avoid major problems later.
Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
Site St Charles Centre for Health & Wellbeing Town London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum HCAS inclusive (pro rata P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 14/12/:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview Our Service seeks High Intensity IAPT Counsellors (Band 7) with a particular interest, experience and firm commitment to working at pace to deliver effective brief treatments. The service works across diverse patient groups presenting with a wide range of psychological difficulties.
Applicants are likely to have at least two years recent experience of working with adults in an IAPT Service, and to be qualified and experienced in at least one IAPT approved modality. A supervision qualification is desirable.
The posts can be recruited to at two bandings, dependent on experience and qualifications:
Band 7: We seek experienced clinicians who have an interest in applying clinical practice in a variety of other ways to develop the service performance and clinical outcomes.
The post offers a range of developmental opportunities including Screening, Supervision, lead areas, waiting list/pathway management, audit & research. Experience is highly desirable, however training can be provided.
Band 6: Where Band 7 criteria have not yet been fully met, it may possible to consider suitable candidates to join the service at Band 6. The retention of the post will be conditional on achieving qualification in an additional IAPT modality within an agreed time-frame.
You should be an Accredited or Registered Counsellor or Psychotherapist with the BACP, UKCP, BPC or an equivalent professional body. PLEASE ENTER YOUR ACCREDITATION/REGISTRATION STATUS IN YOUR APPLICATION .
Main duties of the job Band 7 Counsellor posts include a range of Service related duties alongside provision of clinical sessions. Duties may include Screening, Triage supervision, clinical supervision, championing lead areas, wait list and pathway management and audit & research. Experience in these areas is highly desirable, however training can be provided.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working for our organisation The Counselling Team is a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians. The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from the senior management team, as well as benefit from support and guidance from colleagues, regular reflective practice, and specialist CPD. Clinicians work collaboratively across the wider Service which has close links with our Community Mental Health Hub and local organisations and charities.
Our Counselling team provides assessment and treatments in brief Counselling and IAPT modalities: DIT, IPT, PCE CfD and CTfD. The team is substantially psychodynamic or integrative in approach.
The Service is open Monday - Thursday 8.00am to 8.00pm and Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm. Posts are offered with a minimum of 3 days (22.5hrs) per week, one day of which must be a Thursday and one evening shift to 8pm is required. The Service offers telephone, video and face to face sessions dependent on patient need. Clinicians currently work with a balance of office and home based practice (subject to review).
CLW Psychological Therapies works across two main Hubs at St Charles Centre for Health & Wellbeing in the north of the borough and Gertrude Street in the south. The Service forms part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Overview of Main Responsibilities
CLINICAL
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
There's a place for you at CNWL.
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
To help your onboarding go smoothly, it's essential that internal applicants:
Use their NHS.net email address in their TRAC profile
Ensure your application is marked to show that you are a current CNWL staff member
Applications using personal email addresses (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo) will not be recognised, and the process simply won't work. There is also a charge to change new starter personal email addresses to their nhs.net email address.
Before you apply:
Log into TRAC and update your email to your NHS.net address
Check your application details and make sure you are identified as an internal applicant
This small step helps avoid major problems later.
Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Site St Charles Centre for Health & Wellbeing Town London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum HCAS inclusive (pro rata P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 14/12/:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview Our Service seeks High Intensity IAPT Counsellors (Band 7) with a particular interest, experience and firm commitment to working at pace to deliver effective brief treatments. The service works across diverse patient groups presenting with a wide range of psychological difficulties.
Applicants are likely to have at least two years recent experience of working with adults in an IAPT Service, and to be qualified and experienced in at least one IAPT approved modality. A supervision qualification is desirable.
The posts can be recruited to at two bandings, dependent on experience and qualifications:
Band 7: We seek experienced clinicians who have an interest in applying clinical practice in a variety of other ways to develop the service performance and clinical outcomes.
The post offers a range of developmental opportunities including Screening, Supervision, lead areas, waiting list/pathway management, audit & research. Experience is highly desirable, however training can be provided.
Band 6: Where Band 7 criteria have not yet been fully met, it may possible to consider suitable candidates to join the service at Band 6. The retention of the post will be conditional on achieving qualification in an additional IAPT modality within an agreed time-frame.
You should be an Accredited or Registered Counsellor or Psychotherapist with the BACP, UKCP, BPC or an equivalent professional body. PLEASE ENTER YOUR ACCREDITATION/REGISTRATION STATUS IN YOUR APPLICATION .
Main duties of the job Band 7 Counsellor posts include a range of Service related duties alongside provision of clinical sessions. Duties may include Screening, Triage supervision, clinical supervision, championing lead areas, wait list and pathway management and audit & research. Experience in these areas is highly desirable, however training can be provided.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working for our organisation The Counselling Team is a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians. The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from the senior management team, as well as benefit from support and guidance from colleagues, regular reflective practice, and specialist CPD. Clinicians work collaboratively across the wider Service which has close links with our Community Mental Health Hub and local organisations and charities.
Our Counselling team provides assessment and treatments in brief Counselling and IAPT modalities: DIT, IPT, PCE CfD and CTfD. The team is substantially psychodynamic or integrative in approach.
The Service is open Monday - Thursday 8.00am to 8.00pm and Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm. Posts are offered with a minimum of 3 days (22.5hrs) per week, one day of which must be a Thursday and one evening shift to 8pm is required. The Service offers telephone, video and face to face sessions dependent on patient need. Clinicians currently work with a balance of office and home based practice (subject to review).
CLW Psychological Therapies works across two main Hubs at St Charles Centre for Health & Wellbeing in the north of the borough and Gertrude Street in the south. The Service forms part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Overview of Main Responsibilities
CLINICAL
- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment of patients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies IAPT Service for High Intensity Counselling, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including self report measures, rating scales, assessing for suitability of the treatment. Ensure the outcome of assessment is communicated to the referring agent and other professionals involved. Determine suitability of the approach and refer on unsuitable individuals to appropriate agencies and/or provide advice, including psycho education, as appropriate.
- Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of counselling, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality. It is expected that the postholder will treat patients across the range of severity.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling, and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples and groups, adjusting and refining psychotherapeutic formulations as practice and experience demand, and drawing upon different explanatory models and objective IAPT modality framework/s to maintain a clinical individualized focus whilst maintaining ethical and legal standards.
- Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates, for a High Intensity post as per IAPT national guidelines and local IAPT implementation board.
- Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload and make it available for supervision and for the patient as required.
- Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress, using objective measures where appropriate, and communicate this to referring agent and other professionals involved as appropriate. . click apply for full job details