High Intensity Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT seeks an experienced High Intensity Practitioner (Band 7) to join its NHS Talking Therapies service. You will deliver specialist psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions to adults, while managing a clinical caseload and ensuring safe, person-centred care.

The role provides opportunities to contribute to service development, support colleagues, and deliver supervision, with potential to work across locations and remotely as needed.

Qualifications

• Experienced psychological therapist with Band 7 level
• Ability to deliver NICE-guided high-intensity interventions
• Proven skills in assessment, formulation and clinical supervision

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions tailored to individual needs.
• Manage your own clinical caseload with safe, effective, person-centred care.
• Deliver high intensity interventions in line with NICE and NHS Talking Therapies principles.
• Provide supervision and support to junior colleagues and trainees.
• Contribute to training and professional development within the service.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure coordinated care and positive outcomes for service users.
• Engage in clinical supervision, reflective practice and CPD.
• Support service improvement, audits, and dissemination of good practice.

Job description

High Intensity Practitioner – Band 7

Are you an experienced psychological therapist looking to make a meaningful difference to people's mental health and wellbeing? We are looking for a skilled and motivated High Intensity Practitioner to join our NHS Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT). In this role, you will provide specialist psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions to adults aged 18 and over experiencing common mental health difficulties, including presentations of greater complexity. You will work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, helping people overcome psychological challenges, improve their wellbeing and achieve meaningful recovery. Alongside your clinical work, you will have opportunities to contribute to service development, support the learning and development of colleagues and help shape the delivery of high-quality psychological therapies.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based therapeutic interventions tailored to individual needs.
• Manage your own clinical caseload, ensuring safe, effective and person-centred care.
• Deliver high intensity psychological interventions in line with NICE guidance and NHS Talking Therapies principles.
• Provide clinical supervision, guidance and support to junior colleagues, including Low Intensity Practitioners and trainee psychologists, as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of training, teaching and professional development activities within the service.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and other professionals to ensure coordinated care and positive outcomes for service users.
• Participate in clinical supervision, reflective practice and continuing professional development.
• Support service improvement, clinical audit, research and the sharing of evidence-based good practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will deliver high-quality psychological care while contributing to the ongoing development of the NHS Talking Therapies service. The role requires excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively with colleagues and partner services. You may be required to work across different locations and deliver interventions remotely, depending on service needs.

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust. Use of AI Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.