High Intensity CBT Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join one of the leading NHS organizations as a High Intensity CBT Therapist. This full-time, fixed-term position offers an opportunity to support the psychological wellbeing of staff across Northumbria Healthcare. As part of a supportive team, you will deliver evidence-based interventions and receive continued professional development in a welcoming environment.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension scheme

Access to lease car and home electronics scheme

Extensive staff health and wellbeing programme

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Significant experience working in mental health settings.
• Experience with evidence-based brief focused psychological approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality clinical service to employees.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Contribute to health promotion initiatives.

Skills

Psychological therapy skills

Clinical governance

Team collaboration

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in IAPT compliant psychological therapy

Registered qualification in psychology, nursing, social work or occupational therapy

Job description

Main area High Intensity CBT Therapist Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (mon-fri) Job ref 319-7272529LT

Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2025 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you :

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term Band 7 post within the well-established Staff Psychology and Counselling Service which provides evidence-based and innovative work aimed at improving the psychological wellbeing of staff at Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCFT).

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking practitioner to contribute to the provision of staff support services to approx. 12,000 employees of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust across various settings within Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Applicants must have significant experience working in mental health settings and experience of working with clients using evidence based brief focused psychological approaches.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job are:

· To provide high quality and effective clinical service to all employees of NHFCT and to other external organisations with whom the trust has contractual arrangements.

· To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.

· To contribute to supervision, teaching, audit and service development.

· To contribute to health promotion, wellbeing at work initiatives and stress reduction activities in the organisation.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will join the well-established, well-respected and supportive Staff Psychology and Counselling Service which works closely with Occupational Health. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to provide a wide range of individual and team interventions to improve the mental health, wellbeing and effectiveness of staff. There will also be ample opportunity to be involved in providing training and group-based support to teams. The post holder will also have the opportunity to contribute to new service development projects.

The post holder will receive support, training and supervision from the occupational health psychology team and have close links with the wider occupational health team. They will also be opportunities to access professional support /CPD.

Person specification

Qualifications

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or within a psychological therapy or KSF, plus further post graduate qualification training in an IAPT compliant evidence-based psychological therapy, including CBT, EMDR, IPT to at least equivalent of a Masters level (Post Graduate Diploma); and significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner.
• Accreditation by relevant professional organisation.
• Professional knowledge supplemented by specialist training e.g. training in cognitive – behavioral approaches, stress management, counselling supervision

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant experience of working in relevant settings e.g. Mental health/primary care occupational health settings
• Experience of working with clients within a brief focused therapeutic approach.
• Organisational/occupational health experience
• Experience of critical incident responses and post trauma interventions
• Knowledge and experience of an NHS hospital culture and systems
• Experience of supervising counsellors/psychological therapists /trainee psychologists

Other Requirements.

• HCPC Registered

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Simon Pestell Job title Head of Service Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01670 529213

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