HI CBT Therapist

Blmk Icb; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting CBT therapists and clinical/counselling psychologists for Bedfordshire Talking Therapies. The role involves high intensity CBT for anxiety and depression, with assessments, group work, and potential supervision.

You will work across Bedfordshire with two days on site and three days at home, offering flexible hours and multilingual support where possible. We welcome BABCP or BPS accredited professionals and value experience in diverse communities,

Qualifications

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with BABCP accreditation or eligible for accreditation.
• Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with BPS accreditation and HCPC registration.
• Trained in other therapeutic approaches like EMDR.
• Experience delivering CBT for anxiety and depression.
• Experience in primary care.
• Experience running groups.
• Ability to work with diverse backgrounds and use interpreters.
• Ability to manage caseload and meet targets.
• Experience in treating PTSD.
• Experience delivering clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide high intensity CBT with patients who have anxiety and depression.
• Carry out assessments and offer CBT groups as well as individual CBT treatment.
• Work with people from different cultural backgrounds and use interpreters when necessary.
• Hybrid role: two days on site and three days working from home.
• May provide cover to other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams.

Education

BABCP accreditation

BPS accreditation

HCPC registration

Post-graduate training

EMDR training

Job description

Are you passionate about promoting meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients at Step 3 and wish to expand your skills and knowledge, in a high performing service?

Then we want to hear from you.

'Previous applicants need not apply.'

Main duties of the job

We are looking for CBT Therapists or Clinical / Counselling Psychologists who are BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation to join the service at this interesting time of change and expansion within Bedford.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

East London NHS Foundation Trust also provides Talking Therapies services in Newham, Tower Hamlets and a new Digital Service. The four services work together on joint projects, sharing good practice and opportunities for training.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is moving into a new phase of development and expansion. We pride ourselves on creating an environment with "a leader in every seat" so you would be contributing your ideas and creativity to the ongoing development of an innovative service which meets the needs of our diverse local community.

One of the ways in which we achieve this is by running monthly focus groups organised around different service priorities, such as identifying, exploring and taking steps to address inequities in access, experience and recovery for people with protected characteristics. We also run monthly Equalities Forum, Journal Club and Modality meetings, are very active in terms of formal quality improvement projects and provide regular CPD events to support you in your ongoing development as a CBT therapist.

Job responsibilities

Bedfordshire Talking Therapies (BTT) is an integrated Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) providing a range of Talking Therapies approved interventions.

The successful candidate will provide high intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with patients who have a range of complex Anxiety disorders and Depression related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. As part of their caseload, the post holder will be expected to carry out assessments and offer CBT Groups as well as individual CBT treatment.

The post holder will be required to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and may work in various community settings, including GP surgeries and community venues. We would particularly welcome applications from people who speak another language in addition to English.

This is a hybrid role with our therapists currently working towards two days on site offering face-to-face therapy across a variety of clinical spaces in Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough, and three days working from home offering video therapy.

The service seeks to provide ease of access for service users and to this end there will be a requirement to work flexible hours between 8am and 8 pm based on service requirements. Whilst this post is based in Bedfordshire, you may at times be required to provide cover and assistance to other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams, for example supervision by the medium of Teams, cross service trainings, etc. The post holder will be expected to work constructively and flexibly as part of the Bedfordshire Talking Therapies team and with colleagues in other East London Foundation Trust IAPT teams.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with previous mental health experience and BABCP accreditation or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with BPS accredited doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), HCPC registration and BABCP accreditation or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology and BABCP accreditation
• Trained in other therapeutic approaches like EMDR

Experience

• Experience of delivering CBT interventions to patients with common mental health problems i.e.: depression, anxiety (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc.)
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of running groups
• Ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and use interpreters where necessary
• Ability to manage own caseload and time and meet agreed/specified service targets
• Experience in treating Post traumatic Stress Disorder
• Experience of delivering clinical supervision

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
• Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Other

• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships

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.