Clinical Lead/CBT Therapist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead/CBT Therapist to support the Children’s Wellbeing and MHST teams in an early intervention setting. The role involves supervising staff, delivering CBT to children and young people, and maintaining high-quality clinical governance.

You will work a senior clinician role across services, holding a clinical caseload and mentoring colleagues, while adhering to safeguarding and statutory requirements.

Qualifications

• Qualified CBT therapist with accreditation.
• Experience in low intensity supervision.
• Additional therapeutic qualification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Hold a clinical caseload for children and young people.
• Provide supervision to junior staff and deputise when needed.
• Deliver evidence-based CBT interventions in schools and community.
• Work within governance processes and maintain professional standards.
• Collaborate with MHST and Children's Wellbeing teams.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Autonomous practice

Team supervision

Risk management

CBT delivery (children/young people)

Communication with MDT

Core outcome measures (SDQs/RCADS)

IT skills (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

Education

Accredited CBT Therapist

Low Intensity Supervisors Training

Additional therapeutic qualification

Tools

Word

Outlook

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead/CBT Therapist

The closing date is 11 November 2026

We have an opportunity for a CBT Therapist to join us on a fixed term basis, covering maternity leave. This is to cover the Children's Wellbeing Service which is linked with the Mental Health Support team offering early intervention for children and young people across Northamptonshire.

Do you have a passion for Early Intervention and CBT Therapy?

Are you interested in working with children and young people at an early intervention stage to support their emotional/mental health and wellbeing?

Do you enjoy working within a team, sharing your knowledge of how to support children and young people with colleagues inside and outside of the NHS? Are you keen to develop your clinical skills and clinically lead with evidence-based interventions?

You will need to have a valid UK driving license and a car to use for work

Our service operates Monday to Friday 9am-5pm with occasional earlier starts and later finish times to accommodate school assemblies and parent's evenings

Main duties of the job

This role is to work as a senior member across both the Mental health Support service and the Children's Wellbeing team.

MHST's are working within schools, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. The Children's Wellbeing service offers the same interventions to children and young people whose school is not linked with the MHST service.

You will be one of the senior clinical members of the team adding to the number of teams in a growing early intervention mental health service. You will be expected to hold a clinical caseload, offer supervision to junior staff and when necessary and appropriate deputise for the MHST Clinical & Team Lead.

In this role you will support and provide a high-quality service to children and young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This will be done through the supervision of junior staff, providing consultations with other teams across children's services and through direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of children and young people referred to the service. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

qualification and training

• oRelevant professional qualification; accredited CBT Therapist
• oLow Intensity Supervisors Training Course
• Additional therapeutic qualification

Experience

• oExperience of working with children and young people with mental health problems/relevant transferable skills
• oExperience of working in a multi- disciplinary team.
• oExperience of clinically supervising team members with their own clinical work, delivering evidence-based interventions to children and young people in groups and/or one to one settings
• oExperience of working with and managing risk
• oAbility to safeguard and protect welfare
• oAbility to deliver workshops to professionals, young people and/or parents/carers.
• oEvidence of CPD
• osignificant experience at Band 6 or equivalent
• oExperience of supporting young people in an community/educational setting and/or experience of working with schools, promoting a whole school approach to mental health
• oExperience delivering training to other professionals regarding mental health and children.
• oExperience of providing CBT supervision

skills and abilities

• oAbility to work autonomously in a community setting, making appropriate decisions
• oAbility to manage distressing and challenging situations
• oGood knowledge of different outcome measures used in Children and Young Peoples settings (SDQs/RCADS etc.)
• oAbility to feedback and discuss cases within the multi-disciplinary team.
• oAbility to communicate information on formulation, risk and intervention to staff from other disciplines.
• oAbility to work flexibly as part of a team.
• oKnowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc.
• oAbility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people & demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
• valid UK driving license and car available to sue for work
• o keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
• oKnowledge and understanding of CYP-IAPT
• oKnowledge and understanding of the Green Paper; Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision
• oIs up-to-date with legislation and current events

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust