Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to increase your clinical experience of working with complex mental health presentations? This full or part-time 10-month secondment will provide a rare opportunity for a High Intensity Therapist or similar to join our Psychological Therapies Service (aka Step 4), providing specialist psychological therapies to clients across Basildon & Brentwood.

Making People Better

As the bridge between Primary and Secondary care, our Step 4 team provides appropriate, evidence-based treatment for patients whose needs have been considered too severe for primary care IAPT services. In this role, you will manage a caseload of patients at different stages of the service, from assessment through to treatment and discharge. You would be required to manage risk where necessary and apply NICE-approved approaches to individual and group therapies. You will develop strong relationships with external health and care services, working in partnership to maintain the dignity and support of your patients.

Through your clinical expertise and passion for patient care, you will contribute valuable insights and recommendations to continuously improve and develop the service. You will be supported by a multidisciplinary team of dedicated clinicians and participate in regular clinical supervision and case management, with a modality-specific supervisor who will work with you to identify opportunities for ongoing training and development.

Getting to Know You

This role is open to internal candidates, who can demonstrate:

• IAPT High Intensity CBT Qualification (PGDip)
• BABCP Accreditation
• Training and accreditation in EMDR, IPT, and/or CfD.
• Experience and training in working with Personality Disorder and Trauma presentations

The role is open to site-based and remote therapists from any team.

Please note, this is a 10-month fixed-term secondment.

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Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.  We work in partnership with the NHS, support the UK’s largest corporate companies to help assist their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of making people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.  To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.

We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

• Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
• Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
• Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
• Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
• Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
• The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.

VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. 

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. 

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

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