East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
BAND 7 – IAPT High Intensity CBT Therapist – Permanent role
Newham Talking Therapies – Who are we?
At Newham Talking Therapies we aim to ensure that we deliver the care and treatment that we would want for our loved ones. To meet this aim we are looking for practitioners who are passionate about delivering effective and responsive therapies.
We can only provide residents the tools to change their lives by having effective staff! Newham Talking Therapies can offer help you develop and cultivate your clinical therapy approaches. Newham is a wonderfully diverse borough that offers practitioners so much wealth in terms of learning from our residents. If you are looking to widen your therapy experience, gain expertise or to have opportunities to progress clinically or within management areas, NTT could be the place for you!
Main duties of the job
Who are we looking for?
We are aiming to recruit several High Intensity CBT Therapist to join our creative and high performing team!
You will work alongside professionals from various clinical approaches trained in modalities such as guided self-help, EMDR, IPT, DIT, CfD, BCT and more! We also have a dedicated team working with physical health related problems and long-term conditions; this offers many opportunities to work within other internal teams.
You would also hold a small caseload of face-to-face clients and offer the majority of your clinical work via online video call. Currently our staff are attending our clinical buildings one day a week and then working the rest of the week at home, this would be continually reviewed in line with our clinical demands.
We welcome therapists who are looking to develop their expertise working with PTSD, groups and cross service collaborations.
We fully welcome applications from those wishing to do flexible hours. Our service runs Monday to Thursday (8 am to 8 pm) and Friday (8 am to 5 pm) and you could choose your hours to suit your personal life however we would ask you to still work a minimal of one evening week.
We welcome applications from CBT therapists in training, provided that you are shortly due to complete a BABCP Level 2 accreted training course.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- HCPC registered Counselling or Clinical Psychologist (eligible for BABCP accreditation) OR
- Psychological Therapist/High Intensity therapist (CBT) with a core mental health training e.g. nursing, social work, accredited and registered by BABCP, UKCP and HPC
- All applicants must be BABCP accredited or eligible to apply for accreditation within 6 months. CBT trainee therapists must complete their training with 3 months of our offer and a band 6 position would be offered initially.On confirmation of passing the relevant CBT training course a band 7 position would be offered. If the completion of the course does not occur within 3 months of the offer, we would close the contract.
Desirable
- Relevant specialist trainings or qualifications in other High Intensity Therapies and accreditation with professional body
- Training or qualification in providing CBT in group formats.
- Training or qualification in providing LTC treatment.
- 2 years post qualification experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience in treating long term conditions.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrate high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
Desirable
- Experience in treating Post traumatic Stress Disorder
- Experience of delivering therapy in a group format
- Experience of delivering therapy through interpreters
Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Essential
- Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates a knowledge of working with individuals with long term conditions.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders 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
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Desirable
- Completed clinical audits within a service
- Experience of using IAPT clinical systems, e.g., IAPTus
Training
Essential
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
Other
Essential
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skills
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and case management positively and effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
Desirable
- Fluent in languages other than English
Closing Date: 23 August 2026
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