Job requirements
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Establish and maintain effective professional relationships and communications with managers, mental health professionals and other agencies.
- Skills
Ability to develop and maintain effective therapeutic alliances with patients, who may be challenging, highly emotive and distressed.
- Skills
Deliver formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients with highly complex mental health problems.
- Skills
Employing methods based on evidence across a wide range of care settings.
- Skills
Communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS
- Skills
Maintain up to date clinical records, including electronic data entry, text processing, report compiling.
- Knowledge
Ability to make autonomous clinical judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparisons of a range of clinical options.
- Knowledge
Delivery of consultation and advice on matters related to CBT to members of the multi disciplinary team, universal services professionals, and other agencies responsible for Children & Young People’s care.
- Knowledge
Up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, guidelines, and clinical issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
- Knowledge
Utilise theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other teams.
- Knowledge
Maintain clinical supervision and a balance of Continued Professional Development to at least fulfil the BABCP requirements for continued accreditation.
- Experience
Evidence of Post registration experience delivering CBT interventions in line with NICE guidelines in a mental health setting.
- Experience
Experience of working with Children & Young people and families
- Experience
Experience of assessment, formulation and delivery of a wide range of therapeutic CBT interventions for moderate to complex mental health presentations.
- Experience
Ability to assess, contain and manage complex cases in the setting of a multi disciplinary team.
- Experience
Experience in supporting and educating professional staff and partners in care.
- Experience
Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience
Experience of and application of audit and evaluation.
- Experience
Experience of making effective use of regular clinical supervision in CBT from accredited CBT Psychotherapists.
- Experience
Ability to work autonomously and manage a caseload.
- Experience
Experience of multi disciplinary team working.
- Qualifications
Appropriate professional qualification in CBT
- Qualifications
Accredited with BABCP or willingness to work towards accreditation (development post) Core profession or significant equivalent experience
Desirable
14 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Advanced information technology and keyboard skills.
- Knowledge
Developed professional links with other CB Therapists around the country
- Experience
Experience of working with Children & Young people and families.
- Experience
Experience of working within a CAMHS service
- Experience
Experience of working with minority groups.
- Experience
Experience of providing clinical supervision to accredited CB psychotherapists and other mental health professionals as required, e.g. psychiatrists, psychologists, CPNs.
- Experience
Regularly provide and evaluate teaching and training packages.
- Experience
Experience of working in CAMHS.
- Experience
Previous experience of managing cases of deliberate self-harm.
- Experience
Recognised teaching qualification
- Experience
Experience of participation in service development
- Qualifications
Teaching and assessing in clinical practice of equivalent.
- Qualifications
A qualification or have undertaken a program of formal training in Clinical Supervision (e.g. completion of a specialist Clinical Supervision Module).
- Qualifications
Additional training in CBPT associated psychotherapies, e.g. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Behavioural Activation, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy. Eligible for accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor in CBT with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
Job overview
Scunthorpe CAMHS Service have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 CAMHS CBT therapist to join our Getting Help Pathway Team. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team completing assessments and providing evidence-based interventions, advice and support to professionals, parents and young people.
The role holder will work clinically, offering Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy working into specialist CAMHS teams for children and young people (C&YP) and their families. The role holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to mental health roles across CAMHS. The role holder will work in a collaborative and multi-agency way.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This is an excellent opportunity to work as an autonomous clinician within a supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychological care to children, young people and their families.
You will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, case management and CBT interventions for children and young people with a range of complex emotional and psychological needs. Using recognised CBT frameworks, you will develop and deliver personalised treatment plans, adapting interventions in line with clinical presentation and risk.
You will work closely with internal and external partners, adhering to local and multi-agency policies and procedures, and contributing to service transformation projects. The role requires confidence in evaluating clinical outcomes and using feedback from young people, carers and staff to inform ongoing development.
You will promote a positive, reflective culture of risk management and change, working collaboratively with senior clinical and medical colleagues.
If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people, we would welcome your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for CAMHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Cognitive behavioural therapist role. The advertised salary is £49387.00 to £56515.00. The contract type is Permanent: Monday - Friday (9-5/Flexible). The application deadline is 27 Oct 2026.
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