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Clinical Lead for CAT, Band 8A - Yeovil

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced accredited CAT Therapist or Psychotherapist to take on the role of Clinical Lead for CAT in Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. We have a thriving community of CAT therapists in our Community Mental Health Services.

As Clinical Lead for CAT, the post holder will lead and facilitate this CAT community, and organise and co-teach the provision of ACAT accredited CAT Practitioner Training, and ensure it continues to develop and thrive. You will be a highly experienced CAT therapist / psychotherapist, and an accredited CAT Supervisor. You will need to demonstrate your aptitude for teaching and training, and be ready and able to take on the organisation of the CAT Practitioner programme, including liaising with ACAT Training Committee and Exam Board to ensure the training programme meets national requirements. We are able to provide mentoring and support for the right candidate to develop these skills, as we recognise that this is a role that not everyone will have had the chance to take on.

Main duties of the job

Carry a clinical caseload for CAT, working directly with people, including those with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, and/or struggling with the effects of trauma, including those who pose multiple challenges to themselves and mental health services, with complex needs and posing high risk, and who may be involved with multiple agencies and services.

Provide clinical leadership and CAT supervision and consultation to ensure the CAT service provided is effective, well led, responsive and compassionate. Through dynamic leadership offer support, encouragement and development opportunities to CAT therapists and psychotherapists and other staff to deliver CAT. To facilitate and lead ACAT accredited CAT Practitioner Training in the Trust; to offer CAT supervision to staff at all levels of CAT experience; to ensure succession planning in the CAT community through facilitating CAT supervision training.

Working for our organisation

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts. 

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centers like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan – there is truly something for everyone!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work with the principals of co-production, inclusion, equality and accessibility at the heart of the programme and leadership.

Contribute to service development through developing, delivering and where appropriate facilitating groups and other interventions based on CAT skills to facilitate appropriate therapeutic input for a wide range of people who use services.

To lead on educating staff and service users in CAT across mental health services helping to integrate this provision within mental health services in Somerset.

To provide specialist training to wider teams to enable staff to work with the concepts of CAT to enable service users to make the best possible use of their therapy.

To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and guidance to a wide range of staff to better enable them to work with service users presenting in challenging and/or risky ways. To work alongside others to drive the transformation of the way we work with people presenting with difficulties associated with trauma.

Person specification

Esssential and Desirable

Essential criteria

• Either Postgraduate doctoral degree, supplemented by short specialist courses, clinical supervision and further specialist, training, or experience, HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist)
• OR A post graduate qualification in CAT with highly specialist experience, professional development and courses / structured self-study
• Accreditation by ACAT and/or UKCP as a CAT Therapist or Psychotherapists

Desirable criteria

• Post-qualification training in CAT clinical supervision
• Experience of teaching CAT

Please note: If you are successful for interview, you will be required to bring the following with you: Proof of any essential qualifications stated on the Job Description, proof of NHS payslip if coming from another NHS Organisation and all ID to prove your identity and Right to Work (More details will follow for successful applicants invited to interview)

Our values are simple: Outstanding Care, Working Together, Listening and Leading. 

We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientious of our staff. With this in mind, we offer a range of staff benefits including:

Excellent annual leave entitlement

Relocation package – up to £8,000 (Subject to eligibility)

Enhanced rates of pay

NHS Pension Scheme

Free parking on most of our sites

NHS discounts

Training and development

Flexible working

Paid registration fees for the 1st year for newly qualified staff

For more information please contact the recruitment team via email: SomersetNHSJobs@SomersetFT.nhs.uk

https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/recruitment/homepage/job-board/#!/job/UK/Somerset/Yeovil/Somerset_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cognitive_Analytic_Therapy/Cognitive_Analytic_Therapy-v3671655?_ts=413322

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