Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, accredited CBT Psychotherapist to join Birmingham Healthy Minds as a Locality Clinical Lead within an NHS Talking Therapies service. This senior clinical leadership role offers the opportunity to combine direct clinical work with clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, service development and quality improvement within a large NHS Talking Therapies services in the country.

You will play a pivotal role in strengthening clinical practice across the stepped care model, providing supervision, consultation and support to clinicians, trainees and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure safe, effective and formulation-led care. Working closely with senior clinical and operational leaders, you will contribute to the achievement of key service priorities, including reliable recovery, reliable improvement, access, waiting time standards and clinical governance requirements. The role also provides the opportunity to influence service development, workforce development and integrated care pathways through collaboration with primary care, secondary care and voluntary sector partners.

Main duties of the job
To be a part of the BHM Management Team, to provide specialist assessment and psychological therapy to patients from the BHM NHS Talking Therapies Service. To act as a locality clinical lead by strengthening the clinical delivery of NICE compliant interventions across the stepped care model in their locality, by providing supervision, consultation and support to NHS Talking Therapies clinical staff within the designated locality. Along with operational and senior clinical leads, each locality lead will be responsible for supporting local performance against Service targets within their defined geographical area, with locality leads deputising for other locality leads as required to ensure safe, effective and consistent clinical leadership together with senior service clinical leads across the wider service footprint.

About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Qualifications, Experience, skills & knowledge, personal qualities
Essential

• Post graduate accredited training & qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and fully accredited with the BABCP as a CBT therapist/practitioner
• Completion of the IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies supervision course
• Significant experience of working with a variety of client groups and presenting problems, including co-morbidities, that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of providing supervision to clinical staff, including NHS TT clinical staff.
• Specialism in an area of practice within NHS Talking Therapies, supported by additional education or experience.
• Able to work specified work hours for the service including a specified pattern of evening and/or weekend shifts.

Desirable

• Doctoral level training & qualification in clinical or counselling psychology accredited by the BPS (British Psychological Society) and fully registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• BABCP CBT supervisor accreditation
• Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of patients across a range of mental health care settings relevant to an NHS Talking Therapies service, including outpatients, community and primary care settings
• Qualification in CBT or an NHS TT modality supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address: ALL BHM LOCATION BASES, 15 SHENLEY FIELDS DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B31 1XH, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: CLINICAL SERVICE MANAGER, CAROL SPALDING, carolspalding@nhs.net, 01213012527

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