CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in Southampton. This role involves delivering high-quality mental health services to children and adolescents. Candidates need a Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and an accredited status with BABCP. The position emphasizes collaboration with families and multidisciplinary teams to promote optimal mental health outcomes. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for engaging with service users and colleagues effectively. The closing date for applications is 14 December 2025.

Qualifications

• Must have HCPC registration and BABCP accreditation.
• Experience in treating a wide range of psychological disorders using CBT.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage complex conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide core and specialist CBT interventions to children and adolescents.
• Engage with service users, colleagues, and stakeholders.
• Help implement new ways of working within the CAMHS team.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Equivalent

Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP)

Job description

CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

The closing date is 14 December 2025

Southampton Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service are excited to invite applications for a Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. This is a great opportunity to join our team in Children & Families Service line to support in the delivery of high quality children's mental health services.

The successful candidate will have a keen interest in working collaboratively with children and families and with partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for children and families in Southampton. You will have a role in offering core interventions as well as specialist CBT interventions to children and adolescents and their families, as well as consultation to the team and professional networks.

This position calls for a professional with HCPC registration and BABCP accreditation. In all cases, you must be able to demonstrate the clinical, consultation and skills needed to offer an outstanding service. First‑class communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills are, of course, essential.

Main duties of the job

You will be working alongside an established CAMHS team at an important time in our development. It really is an exciting time to be joining Southampton CAMHS as we push forward with implementing new ways of working in order to best meet the needs of children and families accessing our service. We are looking for a CBT therapist who can lead by example and truly engage with service users, colleagues and stakeholders.

Appointment to the post will be through application, assessment and competency based interview process to be held on a date to be confirmed.

Please note that should this post attract sufficient interest, we may choose to close at an earlier date. We strongly suggest that you apply at an early stage. If we have not contacted you within four weeks of the closing date of this post, please presume that you have not been selected. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted within 2‑3 weeks; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute‑level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Equivalent
• Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP) (or eligible for)
• Evidence of ongoing Professional Development in CBT

Experience

• Post Registration clinical experience in CBT
• Experience of working within a CAMHS setting
• Experience of treating a wide range of psychological disorders using CBT
• Experience of working autonomously
• Substantial experience of assessing and recording Risk Management plans
• Experience of working with complex conditions as identified through ICD10
• Experience of providing education, teaching and training in relation to CBT
• Experience of collating and recording clinical outcomes
• Engagement in an ongoing CPD CBT programme (including attendance at CBT conferences or training)
• Clinical experience of working within a multi‑disciplinary team

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.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre