Principal High Intensity CBT Therapist (Step 2 performance Lead)

Croydon Talking Therapies is seeking an experienced and innovative Step 2 Performance Lead to join our senior leadership team. This is a pivotal Band 8b role responsible for driving performance, quality, and clinical excellence across our Step 2 (Low Intensity) service.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based interventions in line with national NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) standards and key performance indicators (KPIs), including access, recovery rates, reliable improvement, and waiting times.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior clinician with both CBT and PWP qualifications who is passionate about service improvement, workforce development, and delivering outstanding patient outcomes.

• Develop the strategy to enable the Step 2 team to meet the nationally set targets around reliable recovery and reliable improvement
• Plan and manage treatment capacity and demand to ensure that the nationally set targets around completed treatments and waiting times are met
• To line manage the Step 2 8a Team Leads, and the Step 2 team, supporting their well-being and development and managing their performance
• Lead with the help of the 8a Step 2 Team Leads the monthly step 2 meetings and LI supervisors meetings
• To work collaboratively with the service lead to plan the future development of the service, and to lead specific service developments and new initiatives
• To work with service users, referrers and other providers to improve existing services to clients and to develop new care pathways and services
• To support the service lead in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team
• To work autonomously as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
• To provide high quality specialist CBT supervision
  
  

The post-holder will work within the Croydon NHS Talking Therapies Service. The service consists of approximately 100 WTE clinical and administration staff providing a service across Croydon. The main service bases are at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Central Croydon. This is a borough of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. The service sees clients with a wide range of common mental health problems and varying levels of severity. Many clients present with multiple problems including social, housing and employment issues. The postholder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

We operate a stepped care service model offering on-line CBT, guided self-help, groups and workshops as well as individual therapy (CBT and a range of other approaches) and offer treatment to Lambeth residents suffering from long term conditions. We offer clinical services on week days from 8am until 7:30pm. We have close links with our sister IAPT services within SLaM, with the IAPT training courses at the Institute of Psychiatry and University College London (UCL) and CADAT. The post holder will be required to work at least one late shift from 11:30 - 19:30.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gabriele Dom Job title: Joint Service Lead Email address: gabriele.dom@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07736461676