Senior CAT Therapist - Banbury

Job overview

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Therapist who wishes to make a difference to patients with complex and severe mental health difficulties?

We would be excited to have someone like you join our team as a Senior CAT Therapist. This is a key role within the North & West Adult Mental Health Team (AMHT) and supporting psychological therapies across all Oxfordshire AMHTs.

This is a part time vacancy 18.75 hours per week, alternative arrangements can be discussed for the suitable candidate.

Main duties of the job

We would really like to hear from you if you can demonstrate you have the following skills required for this role:

• Evidence of significant knowledge in your specialist therapy area of working with adults with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
• A good working knowledge of evidence-based treatments.
• Sound clinical risk assessment and management.
• Experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Experience of supervision with therapists and other clinical staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We offer great CPD and training opportunities and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. We also collaborate with Oxford Brookes University, Buckinghamshire New University, and the University of Bath.

We provide excellent opportunities for professional development and accredited supervision by senior therapists to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way, monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups and clinical updates.

The post holder will:

Work as part of the psychological therapies team within the North & West Adult Mental Health Team, seeing patients individually and in groups, providing formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems.

Be responsible for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning the patients mental health difficulties.

Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to the wider Adult Mental Health Team to help develop their patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

Receive and provide professional clinical supervision for yourself and other appropriately trained psychological therapy staff.

Contribute to the development and evaluation of the teams operational practices to ensure high quality, responsive and accessible services are available.