Trainee CBT Therapist (CBT for Psychosis)

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Stratford-upon-Avon seeks a Trainee CBT Therapist to join their Community Mental Health team. This role includes two years of CBT training focused on psychosis and bipolar disorder, leading to a permanent position if qualifications are completed successfully. Responsibilities include providing psychological interventions and developing skills in a supportive environment. Successful candidates should have a relevant degree or core profession and experience in mental health. Travel to training will be required.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee assistance with discounts

In-house counselling services

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with people with severe mental health problems.
• Interest in psychological approaches to psychosis.
• Car driver with willingness to travel to different locations.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological interventions while completing training.
• Offer assessment and therapy to suitable cases.
• Identify service users for CBT interventions.

Skills

Psychological approaches

Teamwork

Assessment and formulation

Ability to travel

Education

Relevant first degree or core profession

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Trainee CBT Therapist (CBT for Psychosis)

The closing date is 01 January 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a trainee psychological therapist to join our newly integrated Community Mental Health team in South Warwickshire (To be confirmed). The successful candidate will be provided two years of CBT training, supervision and support in a welcoming and friendly service. Upon successful completion of the Post Graduate qualification, you will be able to take up a post of CBT therapist. The training will focus on psychosis and bipolar but will also cover the wider spectrum of difficulties supported by Adult Community Mental Health services.

This role is a 2-year fixed term appointment during which time the post-holder will complete a postgraduate diploma programme in CBT for psychosis and bipolar disorder. It will lead to a permanent band 7 psychological therapist post at the end of this period if the postgraduate diploma programme is completed successfully.

Applicants will need the academic confidence to work at post graduate level and to be able to travel to Hull for four study blocks of a week at a time. Training capacity and opportunities may mean the post holder will work in different localities within CWPT during their two-year training.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work to provide formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide a CBT service to service users with a range of complex presentations including psychosis and bipolar for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post-holder will be seconded to NHS Talking Therapies for 2 days a week in their first year and will work in the CMHT for 2 days of the week developing skills and experience in working with complexity. The post holder will work in the CMHT (Psychosis pathway) for 4 days a week in the second year. The post holder will attend the training programme for the other day each week.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

See attached JD and Person Specification.

Responsibilities

• As the successful candidates' skills develop the complexity of the cases will also develop
• Offering assessment, formulations and therapy to cases felt to be appropriate for the level of training
• Identifying service users who may benefit from evidence-based CBT interventions
• Developing formulations for the team.

Applicants who hold a core profession will need to provide evidence of this at the interview. Applicants who do not have a core profession must complete a KSA portfolio by the end of the first module. A partially completed portfolio should be presented prior to interview with statements included for all sections. Supporting evidence and signatures will not be required at interview. The partially completed KSA portfolio should be made available to the university prior to the interview, and the successful applicant will receive feedback to assist with the portfolio completion after interview.

You must meet all the necessary criteria in the checklist attached to this advert and return a completed checklist directly to me by email by midday on the 2nd January 2026 to: [e-mail].

Please note: Interviews will be held on the 15th January 2026 and the course commences in Hull on the 9th March 2026.

Person Specification

oMeets the suitability criteria stipulated by the course and NHSE.

• Has a BABCP core profession at graduate level or holds a relevant first degree and can evidence ability to meet KSA requirements
• Significant experience of working with people with severe mental health problems.
• Demonstrates interest and enthusiasm for psychological approaches to working with individuals with psychosis and related difficulties.
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation

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.

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust