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Job description

The Senior Therapist will conduct standardised psychological assessments, to inform advanced formulation, recommendation for and delivery of time limited counselling interventions and/or psychoeducational groups for adults and children within community based services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct standardised psychological - mini mental health status assessments, advanced collaborative formulation to include safety management and inform recommendation for treatment and agree counselling goals.
• Administer standardized self-report outcome measures (e.g. CORE-OM / PHQ - 9 / GAD-7/AUDIT.
• Deliver individual counselling interventions to service users impacted by substance misuse and self harming behaviours, applying high fidelity, evidence informed therapeutic modalities in line with service specifications.
• Efficiently manage designated caseload, prioritising work to meet service demands.
• Support dual diagnosis clients experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, and trauma related presentations, alongside issues that are co-existing with or attributable to substance misuse and self harming.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• To be flexible as the role may involve travelling and working at various locations and times.
• Possess a full current driving licence and access to a car. Business insurance is also a requirement for this role.
• Consideration will be given to alternative travelling proposals in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a driver’s licence.
• A professional Diploma in Counselling, covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person centred approach.
• Fully accredited membership with a professional registration Body (BACP category B/IACP, BABCP, UKCP, NCPS professional registrant or equivalent).
• 5 years’ post qualifying experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3 years of which should include experience of providing clinical guidance, and direction in the assessment and management of risk and complex case presentations.
• Experience of delivering training to external stakeholders or employees.
• Experience of providing line management and clinical supervision to employed and associate counsellors,
• Ensuring safe and ethical practice, effective caseload management, and ongoing professional development, with the ability to appropriately escalate concerns to the Clinical Manager when required.
• A minimum of 450 hours of supervised clinical practice.
• Experience of assessment, management, and escalation of risk and or serious safeguarding concerns and including liaising with GP’s, multidisciplinary mental health, and allied professionals.
• Experience of undertaking standardised clinical assessments, formulation and delivering evidence-based or specialist treatment.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office and of using a client management system.

Further Information

The role involves working with service users with complex needs affected by substance misuse and/or dysregulated self harming behaviours, attributable to or co-occurring with psychosocial difficulties and mild to moderate emotional and psychological distress. The post holder will work autonomously, manage a designated case load, hold risk, maintain accurate and up to date clinical records, alongside provide routine, formal supervision and act as an escalation point for Band 4-5 practitioners. The post holder will work within, input into existing and develop new integrated care pathways, lead on audit and service improvement activity and altogether contribute to the delivery of a high quality, safe, effective, and compassionate service. Please see employer website for full job details & person specification.