Band 8a Psychological Therapies Trainer

Leadership: With the Psychological Therapy training lead, to participate in the development, organisation and delivery of the programme of training to support the Core Community Transformation Project and the Beyond CPA Transformation work. To act as the link with NHS England to ensure their support for mental health training provision and development supports the care packages project and the NHS 10 year plan. To promote the Trust by developing a specialist profile through publications, and conference presentations and the provision of specialist training to various groups nationally. To participate / lead in emerging trust transformation projects as appropriate. Training and supervision: To develop a training programme to support the provision of NICE recommended interventions for people with Psychosis initially, in particular CBT and Family Interventions. To deliver CBT training to identified practitioners in BSW community mental health teams working with Service Users with complex
mental health problems. To evaluate the effectiveness of training activity, demonstrating response to feedback as appropriate. To produce and present progress reports detailing activity against key project outcome measures and provide high-level commentary and analysis of data. Research: To support, facilitate and supervise R&D activities by Psychological Therapy staff and other colleagues. To support research in topic areas relevant to the work of the Trust and to initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their families. To design, deliver, review and modify training programmes based on best practice and evaluation using a quality improvement methodology. To act as a resource for clinical audit, and to develop and apply measures to monitor and evaluate clinical work among psychological therapists in the area. To focus capacity on
the delivery of effective, evidence-based interventions (e.g. as recommended by NICE). Most challenging part of this role: Design of specialist, complex, mental health specific training, which informs consistent levels of service delivery in evidence based interventions. Delivering & co-ordinating a programme of high-quality training, education and development activity within available resources over a wide geographical area. Please see attached Job Description for full detail of role and responsibilities