Talking Therapies High Intensity Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Wallsend; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in North Tyneside is seeking a dynamic High Intensity Therapist on a fixed-term basis to deliver CBT within a primary care setting. You will support clients with moderate to complex mental health issues, with extensive supervision and professional development.

The post sits in the Talking Therapies service, offering a blended model of home-based virtual sessions and on-site work at Northumbria bases, with scope for part-time or job-share arrangements

Qualifications

• Graduate-level qualification in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or psychology with postgraduate training in CBT/EMDR/IPT to at least Masters level.
• Accredited with, or working towards accreditation with BABCP.
• Qualification in clinical supervision.
• Other qualifications to deliver IAPT-compliant high intensity therapies (e.g. IPT/EMDR).

Responsibilities

• Provide high intensity CBT interventions in primary care settings.
• Role model compassionate leadership to shape collective leadership practices.
• Manage caseload and contribute to team learning and quality improvement.
• Engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration and report to referrers as needed.

Skills

Caseload management

Written communication

Leadership

Time management

Education

Masters level postgraduate qualification in psychological therapies

BABCP accreditation (or working towards)

Clinical supervision qualification

IAPT-compliant high intensity therapies qualification (e.g. IPT/EMDR)

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Talking Therapies High Intensity Therapist

The closing date is 12 November 2026

North Tyneside Talking Therapies Service is a well established NHS Talking Therapies Service, providing psychological input to the North Tyneside population since 2008. We are a patient focused and pro-active community based primary care service with strong working relationships with GPs and our colleagues in secondary care and specialist services. We are committed to delivering high quality community oriented services, and to working in partnership with service users, carers, health and social care agencies and the voluntary sector.

The team is an integrated mental health service made up of Low Intensity and High Intensity therapists , Counselling, and Employment Support working within steps 2 and 3 of the stepped care model. We work in a blended approach. Mix of working from home completing therapy virtually and working from Northumbria bases.

The service will accept any applications for part time hours/job share arrangements that fit with service need.

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

We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated individual to be part of the Step 3 team on fixed term contract, to provide high intensity interventions, in a primary care setting. The post holder will work with clients who have a range of mental health problems for which their Talking Therapies experience has been demonstrated to be clinically effective, and will receive excellent support in their role, including extensive clinical and caseload supervision.

The post holder will work within North Tyneside Talking Therapies Service, providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients with a range of moderate to complex mental health problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

About us

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within North Tyneside Talking Therapies service (NHS Talking Therapies), providing high intensity interventions, mainly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients with a range of moderate to complex mental health problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualification

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or within a psychological therapy or KSF, and further post graduate qualification training in evidence-based psychological therapies, including CBT, EMDR and/or IPT to at least equivalent of a Masters level (Post Graduate Diploma); and significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner.
• Accredited with, or working towards accreditation with the BABCP (where CBT trained)
• Qualification in clinical supervision.
• Other qualifications to deliver IAPT compliant high intensity therapies. E.g. IPT/EMDR

Experiece and Knowledge

• Demonstrates experience of working in mental health/Talking Therapies services
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Talking Therapies/Primary Care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on both physical and mental health
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Experience of attending multi-disciplinary and/or patient interface meetings

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearpro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours