Job Title: Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapist
Agency: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 46,419 – 55,046 £ / Year

Job Summary

This is a training role within the Trust’s Talking Therapies Services. The post-holder will work within the Talking Therapies service, providing high-intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of further training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide cognitive behaviour therapy to clients.

The post-holder will provide assessment and treatment and offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to referrers, family members, and carers. The post-holder will work in the service for 3 days of the week, whilst attending the CBT training programme for the other two days.

Basic Requirements for High Intensity Trainees:

Suitable applicants for these posts will be clinical and counselling psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, and Psychological Well-being Practitioners. PWPs will need to evidence that they have attained a minimum of 2 years full-time post-qualification experience to meet eligibility criteria.

All applicants to training who do not have a BABCP-recognised core profession must enter via the KSA route, following their guidelines, and complete a portfolio of evidence before interview. Applicants will need to demonstrate relevant experience in delivering psychological therapies to adult clients. A knowledge of CBT and primary care experience would also be desirable.

Main duties of the job

As part of the National Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Programme, Camden and Islington Talking Therapies service (our primary care psychological therapies service) is recruiting suitable individuals for the role of Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapists. We have two 12-month training contracts available in Camden Borough and two in Islington Borough.

Successful applicants will work in our Talking Therapies service 3 days per week, seeing clients for psychological therapy. On the other two days per week, trainees will attend the training program that leads to a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT offered by Royal Holloway. The training programme is usually run in central London.

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