High Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT): Sponsorship Available

City Health Care Partnership CIC

Job summary

Working within the Psychological Wellbeing Service, you’ll support people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties through evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), helping them improve their wellbeing and quality of life.

You’ll join a supportive and experienced team focused on delivering high-quality psychological therapies. This role combines direct clinical work with opportunities to contribute to service development, supervision, and continuous improvement. Your work will help people access effective treatment, make informed choices about their care, and achieve meaningful recovery outcomes.

The post- holder will work in the service for 5 days of the week as part of a hybrid working model which is a split of face to face and remote.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll do:

  • Deliver high intensity CBT interventions for people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties
  • Assess referrals, manage a specialist caseload, and develop personalised treatment plans
  • Work collaboratively with service users, carers, colleagues and partner organisations
  • Contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit and evidence-based practice
  • Take part in supervision, training and professional development activities, including working towards full accreditation where required

What we’re looking for:

  • A degree-level qualification and successful completion of an accredited High Intensity CBT training programme
  • Provisional accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
  • Experience delivering CBT-based treatments and managing a caseload
  • Strong communication skills and a person-centred approach to care
  • A commitment to inclusion, continuous learning and collaborative working

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and communities and value the different experiences, perspectives and ideas that help us provide inclusive, compassionate care for everyone.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level qualification
  • Successful completion of IAPT accredited training programme for Diploma in high intensity CBT therapy
  • BABCP accreditation

Desirable

  • IAPT accredited high intensity training in other evidence based practice areas

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates an understanding of patient centred assessments and mental health clustering HONOS.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of mild, moderate mental health issues and how it may present in Primary Care
  • Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
  • A sound knowledge of principles of CBT

Desirable

  • Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health problems
  • Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of delivering effective CBT based treatments with a variety of clinical presentations
  • Evidence or working with people who have experienced a mental health /physical health problem using a CBT based therapeutic approach
  • Experience of delivering psychoeducational group sessions
  • Experience of adapting resources and practice to meet the standards of the accessible information standard
  • Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communication
  • Experience of working in Primary Care Services
  • Ability to manage own caseload and time
  • Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
  • Experience of working with social inclusion
  • Evidence of working in the local community
  • Experience of working with a dialogue translator
  • Experience in providing effective clinical supervision to PWPS including caseload management
  • Experience of working in Primary or secondary care mental health services
  • Experience in developing psychoeducational programmes to support management of issues impacting on the client wellbeing

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: 25 August 2026

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