High Intensity Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Ealing NHS Talking Therapies was one of the first Talking Therapies services to launch in 2008, and is one of the three services provided by West London NHS Trust. We are a large team of over 70 members of staff and are currently working on further expansion. Our main base is in Ealing where we have access to over 16 clinic rooms and two open plan offices. In addition to this, we run clinics at GP surgeries across the borough, covering areas such as Southall, Acton, and Chiswick. Our service is well-established and many of our staff have been with us since the beginning.

Clinical and line management supervision is part of our success, and as a qualified high intensity therapist you will benefit from weekly clinical supervision, monthly line management supervision, and monthly step 3 clinical skills. In addition to this, we operate a duty system on a daily basis with daily debrief to make sure that all new assessments are discussed promptly

Main duties of the job

As a Band 7 High intensity therapist you would be expected to see 20 attended clinical appointments a week, attend monthly line management, and weekly supervision with a senior therapist. We also have monthly team meetings and reflective practice. We are keen to develop clinicians’ areas of interest and you would be expected to take on a lead champion role within the service.

For more information about our service and what we offer, please visit our website on www.ealingiapt.nhs.uk and our Twitter page on www.twitter.com/EalingIAPT

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an Talking Therapies service
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings. Including outpatient, community, and primary care settings
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, Occupational therapy) plus a post graduate diploma or higher degree in CBT. Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC
• To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, or to be able to achieve provisional practitioner accreditation with the BABCP within six months of starting in post

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Fully accredited with the BABCP

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience at working with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at a specialist level
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
• Knowledge of issues relating to primary and secondary care psychological therapies services

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health

Closing Date: 15 August 2026