Job Summary
An exciting opportunity for a Step 3 Team leader with extensive experience of delivering CBT to join our IAPT team in Bexley. If you are an experienced Therapist with a Supervision qualification looking to progress to a Team leader position, this could be the role for you. You will be responsible for providing clinical supervision and case management to Step 3 trainees and other psychological therapists, including clinical, counselling and CBT trainees, ensuring the team work safely and professionally adhering to guidelines and service guidance.
As part of this role you will also be involved in assisting the leadership team and helping the service achieve its required key performance indicators.
You will also be responsible for a caseload of clients providing assessment and treatment for people presenting with common mental health problems within an IAPT framework.
Our treatments are delivered face to face, by telephone, and online via webinars, Teams and computerised CBT. You will provide support to ensure the Step 3 team are able to cover all aspects of the role meeting expectations for clinical activity, keeping up to date with mandatory training and CPD and enabling personal development.
Key Responsibilities;
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the our Service 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 physical health teams involved in the client’s care.
• 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 undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To provide supervision to IAPT Therapists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing
• To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and IAPT compliant Patient Data Management Systems. To be familiar with word processing, database and statistical packages, and to use such packages for complex data analysis as necessary. To use appropriate computer software to develop and create clinical or other service-related reports or documents
• To initiate, implement and contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• All staff should have a personal development plan and in conjunction with their manager, should actively determine and pursue agreed training and development needs and opportunities. All staff are required to attend mandatory training as designated by the charity