CBT Therapist

NHS; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a passionate Cognitive Behaviour Therapist to join a dedicated team making a real impact on the lives of young people. In this dynamic role, you will provide specialist CBT interventions, helping adolescents navigate their mental health challenges. You'll work in a supportive environment, delivering evidence-based therapy while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. This role offers excellent opportunities for professional development and the chance to contribute significantly to the mental health of children and young people in Kent and Medway. If you are ready to take on a rewarding position that truly changes lives, we would love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Graduate qualified health care professional with CBT training required.
• Experience in CAMHS and working with challenging children/young people essential.

Responsibilities

• Undertake CAMHS assessments and provide evidence-based interventions.
• Develop close working relationships with team members and partnership agencies.

Skills

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

Clinical and therapeutic skills

Case management

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Graduate qualified health care professional

Training in CBT

Job description

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Exciting Opportunity for a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist!

Are you a passionate and skilled Cognitive Behaviour Therapist looking to make a real impact in the lives of young people living in Kent and Medway? Join our dedicated multi-disciplinary teams working across a 14-bed adolescent inpatient unit and Intensive Home Treatment team supporting individuals with a range of general mental health and eating disorders, including those requiring Naso-gastric feeding. In this dynamic role, you will provide specialist CBT interventions, helping young people develop coping strategies, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and navigate their recovery journey. Working as part of a compassionate, multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to deliver evidence-based therapy in a supportive and structured environment. If you are ready to take on a rewarding and impactful role where your expertise can truly change lives, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

As a key part of our Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service, the post holder will undertake CAMHS assessments of children and young people up to age 18 to inform formulation, diagnosis and recommendations for treatment within a spectrum of mental health presentations. You will have a caseload, offering evidence based interventions to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs and their families.

You will have the ability to deliver a range of evidence based clinical interventions for children and young people and will be supported to train in other treatment modalities. Develop and maintain close working relationships with members of the team and partnership agencies e.g. Social Services, Education and others is essential.

You must demonstrate an interest in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work and be familiar with evidence-based practice in children's mental health. There are excellent opportunities for CPD, in service teaching and supervision within the team and the Trust.

You must be able to work independently and have good clinical / therapeutic and case management skills to engage this group of young people.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist)
• To be trained in CBT

Experience

• To be eligible for registration as a full member of appropriate professional body (e.g NMC, HCPC)
• To have CAMHS experience

Complex interventions

• Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
• To have a flexible approach to working around the needs of the service

Flexible approach

• To be willing to take on new training opportunities to increase the clinic's skills

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata