CBT Therapist - Stockport talking therapies

Service summary

Stockport Talking Therapies is a successful multi-disciplinary IAPT service and is excited with the opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic Band 7 CBT therapist.Stockport Talking Therapies is high performing service which provides innovative Primary Care Psychological Therapies using a range of evidenced based treatments for people requiring a brief psychological intervention utilising a stepped care model, in accordance with NICE guidelines. Within the core IAPT offer the Step 2 service provides cCBT and Guided Self Help with the Step 3 service providing CBT, EMDR, Counselling and Inter-Personal therapy.Group interventions are offered at all Steps. At Step 3, the current group offers include:"Skills for Life group", (for younger people, 16-25 years, using an emotional skills approach)"Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy group","Living well", (for clients living with a Long Term Condition).The service includes practitioners who specialise in working with Younger People and Peri-natal clients and are accessible for case consultation.The Step 3.5 service provision uses enhanced therapeutic offers including CBT/EMDR/counselling/CBASP for people whose clinical presentation shows more complexity. Alongside this the Step 3.5 service offers Psycho-Dynamic Therapy and Psycho Sexual Therapy.All members of the workforce in each Step have a wealth of skills/knowledge and experience ensuring high quality psychological therapy services can be provided.

Main duties of the job

Working in the Talking Therapies service:

• To provide brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) assessment andtherapy to service users.
• To provide advice, consultation and supervision as required to other mentalhealth professionals.
• To participate in ongoing service developments within the service as andwhen possible

Clinical

• To carry out the assessment, formulation and treatment planning for service usersreferred to the service.
• To provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to service users.
• To attend relevant meetings in relation to service user group and to give advice onreferrals appropriate for CBT.
• To work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning theassessment, formulation, and treatment plans to service users and theirmultidisciplinary professional team.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management of service users

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