HI CBT Therapist: Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

HI CBT Therapist (Band 7)

Are you passionate about promoting meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients at Step 3 and wish to expand your skills and knowledge, in a high performing service?

Then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for CBT Therapists or Clinical / Counselling Psychologists who are BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation to join the service at this interesting time of change and expansion within Bedford.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with previous mental health experience and BABCP accreditation or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with BPS accredited doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), HCPC registration and BABCP accreditation or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology and BABCP accreditation

Desirable

  • Trained in other therapeutic approaches like EMDR

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems i.e.: depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc.)
  • Experience of working in primary care
  • Experience of running groups
  • Ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and use interpreters where necessary
  • Ability to manage own caseload and time and meet agreed/specified service targets

Desirable

  • Experience in treating Post traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Experience of delivering clinical supervision

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care
  • Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
  • Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
  • Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Other

Essential

  • Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 15 November 2026

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