# CBT Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cbt-therapist/269c8e80-6457-4ea2-a41c-07d176fb32d4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cbt-therapist/269c8e80-6457-4ea2-a41c-07d176fb32d4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Leonard’s Hospital & acute and primary care sites in Hackney. - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pro rata p.a. inc - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (end date is 12 months from start date) - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Currently staff are expected to work two days a week onsite and three days a week remotely. Full time staff members are expected to do 2 evenings per week (until 7:30pm).) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T13:40:52.566Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Homerton_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Talk_Changes_IAPT_CBT/Talk_Changes_IAPT_CBT-v8207302 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8207302?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.homerton.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to join a large and dynamic Talking Therapy service in a stimulating and unique inner London setting. We are a well-establish team with particular expertise in health psychology for long-term physical health conditions. 2 X Fixed Term Positions Available You will be joining a team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners with access to specialist cognitive-behavioural supervision. We are recruiting a number of Band 7 High Intensity CBT Therapists and are inviting applications from accreditable CBT Therapists as well as Counselling or Clinical Psychologists who are BABCP accreditable. * We are part of Homerton Healthcare and have strong links with local GPs, secondary care services and voluntary sector providers as part of the City and Hackney Psychological Therapies Alliance. Hackney is a particularly diverse borough this is reflected in the range of people we see and the problems that we treat. Some views shared by clinicians: “There is a focus on staff wellbeing and there are opportunities to get involved with this if you have ideas on how to improve the work environment.” “I like that we are able to have variety in our week with taking on other duties and responsibilities. For example attending specialist supervision, supervising others, attending training and teaching.” ### Main duties of the job - To work closely with other psychological therapists working in Primary Care - To develop and maintain good working relationships with staff in the Primary Care Clinical Psychology Team, with the purpose of facilitating client care, planning and dissemination of relevant information - To liaise with relevant others in the City and Hackney Psychological Therapies Alliance and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a client’s - To communicate highly sensitive and complex information to clients, relatives, and non- psychologists in easily understood Requiring empathy, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills as there may be barriers to acceptance and the atmosphere may be highly emotive or hostile, e.g., issues involving child protection, sexual abuse, domestic violence. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page. The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. *BABCP accreditable clinicians are those who have either already obtained BABCP accreditation as CBT therapists, or who have completed the level 2 training and experience (or equivalence), and are ready to submit their application for BABCP accreditation. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues - Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems. - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care. - Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters. **Desirable** - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience of working with older adults - Experience of teaching or training other staff. ### Trust Values **Essential** - Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity, and inclusion - Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during patient contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc & produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints - Ability to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances & manage effectively verbal aggression and abuse from patients, carers - Work creatively, co-operatively, reliably & consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor & supervisor, & in multi-disciplinary & team settings & demonstrably respectful approach to patients, carers, colleagues, other professionals & professional contacts & Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally. ### Skills / Abilities **Essential** - Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment. - Ability to act as a specialist psychological therapist and work autonomously in community and hospital settings. **Desirable** - Skills for facilitating communication in interventions with families and staff teams - Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. - Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology. ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Post graduate qualification in CBT leading to BABCP accreditation OR Post-graduate qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology conferring eligibility for chartership by the British Psychological Society - Registration with Health and Care Professions Council - Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS **Desirable** - BABCP accreditation or strong evidence of interest and further training in CBT - Training in and experience of delivering Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 652.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=938) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 124.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=937) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10514093) - [b7 babcp accreditation notes and guidance (pdf, 200.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10514094) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.