High Intensity Trainee North Tyneside Talking Therapies

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Wallsend; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is offering a training post for three Trainee High Intensity CBT therapists in the North Tyneside Talking Therapies service. The post involves delivering CBT to clients with common mental health disorders and completing a PgD CBT course starting January 2027 at Teeside University.

Applicants may be a registered core profession or a PWP with two years post-qualification experience and must present a completed KSA portfolio at interview.

Qualifications

• Trainee High Intensity CBT therapist
• Attend all taught/self-study days required by education provider
• Maintain KSA portfolio at interview stage or on request

Responsibilities

• Provide CBT to clients with common mental health disorders
• Accurate recording and data processing in line with NHS IG policies
• Participate in High Intensity Training Programme and related education days
• Collaborate with the North Tyneside Talking Therapies team to deliver high-quality care

Skills

CBT therapy

NICE guidelines

Clinical documentation

KSA portfolio

Education

PgD CBT course

Job description

A exciting opportunity has arisen in the North Tyneside Talking Therapies for three Trainee High Intensity CBT therapists, to provide excellent, high quality and time limited CBT in accordance with NICE guidelines.

This training post will equip the post holder to provide a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post holder will attend all taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the national High Intensity curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills., Completion of all requirements as set by the education provider for the High Intensity Training Programme.

Providing clinical intervention in the form of CBT to clients experiencing common mental health disorders.

Accurate recording and processing of patient information and data in line with NHS Information Governance policies and procedures.

The PgD CBT course starts in January 2027 at Teeside University and the applicants must be able to start at agreed date., Applicants who have a registered core profession will be considered for shortlisting along with those who are currently a PWP with two years post qualification experience and can produce a completed KSA portfolio at interview.

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!