Are you a qualified High Intensity Therapist looking to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives? Join our passionate and dynamic team, where you’ll play a vital role in delivering evidence based psychological therapies to adults from a wide range of backgrounds.
About the Role
As a High Intensity Therapist, you will deliver one to one and group therapy sessions to adult service users, providing tailored support in line with IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) guidance. Your role will be crucial in assessing service users for suitability, delivering high quality interventions, and ensuring outcomes that promote recovery and resilience.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver high intensity, evidence based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT) to adults.
- Assess suitability of clients for IAPT interventions, using robust clinical judgment.
- Facilitate therapeutic groups as well as individual face to face sessions.
- Provide line management to Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs).
- Offer clinical supervision and case management support to other staff.
- Work closely with senior colleagues to fulfil additional leadership and management duties.
- Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external partner agencies.
- Act as the most senior representative on site when required.
- Promote a culture of inclusion, respecting diversity and upholding equal opportunities.
All prison based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take over 3 months . All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.
Checks will require you to provide information on the below:
- Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
- Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
- Co-residents
- Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
- Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
- Credit reference checks
- Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
- Other government and overseas agency or police checks.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone with the following skills knowledge and experience below to come join us for this role.
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care.
- Experience of organising, planning and prioritising own workload
- Knowledge of the criminal justice sector and/or community services
- Experience of Managing and developing staff providing both Clinical and line management supervision.
- Experience in working as a Psychological therapy practitioner with required skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
Please also see the job description attached for more information about the role.