Trainee (CBT) High Intensity Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

Wellbeing Suffolk provide high Intensity interventions to adults with a range of Mental Health Disorders. This is an opportunity for a trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Therapist position. The successful applicant will undertake the Post Graduate Diploma in High Intensity CBT at the University of East Anglia. Training takes place over one academic year and involves spending two days per week at university and the remainder of the week in practice at your workplace, (please see qualification criteria below).

 

This post will provide high intensity interventions to adults with a range of anxiety disorders, depression and trauma related problems. This is an opportunity to join an established team of Psychological Therapists providing a range of NICE compliant treatments. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, consisting of Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Primary Care Counsellors, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners and Employment Advisors.

Main duties of the job

Therapists will be expected to offer brief time-limited therapy within a team of other CBT therapists and are expected to spend 55% of their time providing treatment interventions to clients. The Wellbeing Service has a number of Key Performance Indicators (targets) and clinicians are supported to achieve these. Treatment takes place both online via video calls, as well as in person, in venues across the county. You will also take part in facilitating group session / webinars. Full clinical supervision is provided within the service.

The post-holder will work to provide formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide a CBT service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Such therapy will be provided within a structured setting, working within a National Talking Therapies framework and service commissioned parameters.

This post will be spilt between two bases: Hospital Road and also Mariner House.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A core mental health practitioner qualification or KSA route
  • Undergraduate degree (or equivalent overseas qualification). Other academic qualifications of an equivalent standard can be taken into account
  • Post qualification experience of working with people with serious mental health problems

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of working in mental health services
  • Ability to manage own caseload and time

Desirable

  • Experience in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Skills

Essential

  • Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice

Knowledge

Essential

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

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).

Closing Date: 25 May 2026

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