Cognitive Behavioural Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is recruiting a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join a Psychology service within a Community Mental Health Team. You will provide specialist CBT to clients with complex mental health issues, working in a multidisciplinary team and contributing to both 1:1 and group therapy sessions.

Appointed applicants will have BABCP accreditation and a recognised CBT qualification, with opportunities to participate in training, consultations and reflective

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in CBT with BABCP accreditation.
• Experience delivering 1:1 and group CBT interventions.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and CBT treatment to clients with complex mental health difficulties.
• Deliver 1:1 and group CBT interventions within a MDT setting.
• Participate in weekly MDT, Psychology and business meetings and multidisciplinary activities.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies.
• Contribute to referrals, risk assessment and treatment planning within the service.

Skills

CBT therapy

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

BABCP accreditation

Job description

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join a Psychology service based within a Community Mental Health Team in Liverpool. You will be joining a CMHT where nursing and OT colleagues are psychological minded who also offer psychological interventions as part of their work with service users.

We are looking for a caring, compassionate, enthusiastic and committed person who is trained and accredited in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to join us and be part of a team of psychologists, psychotherapists, CBT/EMDR therapists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers and psychiatrists. You would be joining a small, Psychology team who support one another and have regular contact with one another during their working day.

A stepped care model is used to provide service users with a range of psychological interventions, appropriate to the level of need. You would be joining a service that includes a Principal Clinical Psychologist, a Specialist Psychotherapist, a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist.

It is a varied role, suited to those who enjoy the challenge of engaging service users in a secondary care setting and who enjoy working in a Multi-disciplinary team. As well as opportunities to do 1:1 and group clinical work, there are also opportunities for consultation, training and reflective practice.

Applicants must have a recognised qualification and BABCP accreditation.

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary teams based at Moss House in Garston, providing a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to clients with complex mental health difficulties.

You will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy. You will be able to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate's and team's policies and procedures.

You will be able to work with individuals from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when required.

You will provide attendance at weekly MDT clinical, Psychology and business meetings.

You will be able to work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a Cognitive Behavioural interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plans.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both unidiscplinary and multidisciplinary care.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

This advert closes on Thursday 15 Oct 2026