About Nightingale Hospital
Nightingale Hospital is the only private mental health hospital in Central London, with over 30 years of experience in delivering specialised, evidence-based treatments in outpatient, day patient, and inpatient settings.
Our dedicated team of specialists is committed to diagnosing and treating all types of mental health conditions, including eating disorders and addictions. Conveniently located, we are a two-minute walk from Marylebone mainline and Underground stations, and within a ten-minute walk of Baker Street and Edgware Road Underground stations.
We are owned by the international medical group emeis, delivering the full spectrum of psychiatric care, and high-quality care home and rehabilitation services across the globe.
The main purpose of the job
Reporting to the Head of Therapies and having full responsibility for their relevant specialism (OCD/BDD) within Nightingale Hospital, we are looking for a compassionate, approachable and enthusiastic OCD/BDD Lead Therapist to join our team.
The postholder’s main responsibilities include:
- Through positive leadership maintain a well-motivated and highly skilled team, able to provide high standards of care and demonstrate best and innovative practice
- To lead the strategic development of the OCD/BDD group therapy programme and to implement new therapy modalities and new modes of delivery
- To manage caseload of patients including formulating, planning, delivering and evaluating interventions
- To liaise with other lead therapists regarding the functional areas under the Therapy Services umbrella
- To promote a positive image of the Company values
- Assisting the Head of Therapies in the recruitment and selection of highly skilled staff within the service
- To ensure that the teams’ resources are managed appropriately to maximise care and efficient work patterns. This will include tasks such as management of attendance, annual leave and the use of extra resources
- To provide clinical supervision as appropriate
- To provide managerial supervision as appropriate, including monitoring and appraising the performance of staff
- Take responsibility for updating weekly programmes and checking all advertised programmes for accuracy on a regular basis
Salary: From £59,000 to £64,200 per annum depending on experience, plus a London Allowance of £4,000 per annum added to all permanent posts. (pro-rata for part-time roles)
Job type: Part-time (22.5 hours / 3 days per week)
Requirements
The following skills and qualifications are essential:
- Completion of postgraduate training in cognitive behaviour therapy
- Full accreditation with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
- Core professional registration (e.g. psychology, nursing, social work) or equivalent recognition through Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes route to accreditation through BABCP
- Clinical supervision skills to work with psychology assistants/students and/or therapists on placement
- Knowledge and experience of assessment, formulating and providing cognitive behaviour therapy to clients with OCD and related disorders
- Knowledge of assessment tools and their psychometrics
- Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience delivering therapy in an inpatient setting
- Group therapy experience
- Demonstrable experience supervising/mentoring health professionals
- Experience managing HR processes such as performance management
- Previous management of a team
- Ability to prioritise
- Well-developed aptitude for self-awareness and demonstrable self-reflective practice
- Ability to deal with challenging presentations in a positive manner
- Ability to identify and manage stressful situations
- Proficient in all forms of communication
- Ability to deliver presentations/promotions to other professionals/media communication including verbal and written
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage the competing demands of a varied workload
- Ability to balance team working with independent initiative
- Good interpersonal skills to work collaboratively within the wider hospital teams
- Readiness to accept direction
- Awareness of different cultural backgrounds of clients and diversity at work
- Fully IT literate (e.g. electronic databases/file systems; email and other electronic communication)
- High level of self-confidence
- Motivational leadership style
- Good time-keeping skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business
Strongly desirable qualities include:
- Prior experience within a private healthcare environment
- Previous research experience/publications
Main benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of benefits, including:
- Competitive salaries + an additional London allowance of £4,000 per annum added to all permanent posts (pro-rata for part-time roles).
- 25 days’ annual leave pro-rata (increasing up to 30 with long service), plus bank holidays
- A ‘refer a nurse scheme’ paying £2,000 per successful recruit
- Opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) and training
- Generous company pension scheme with The People’s Pension
- Generous company sick pay*
- Annual staff bonus (discretionary)
- Interest-free travel loan scheme
- On-site restaurant with subsidised staff meals at breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free life assurance cover (4x salary)
- Free eye tests and contribution towards the cost of glasses (if required)
- Long service recognition*
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay*
- Long-term disability insurance*
*Subject to T&Cs
