# CBT Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cbt-therapist/92be07e9-dd17-4b83-9326-23bf9205e305 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cbt-therapist/92be07e9-dd17-4b83-9326-23bf9205e305.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North View - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Cognitive behavioural therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T14:25:45.314Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Trafford/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/NHS_talking_therapies_CBT/NHS_talking_therapies_CBT-v8364420 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8364420?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Trafford NHS Talking Therapies Service are currently seeking a qualified CBT Therapist, to join our friendly and supportive team. We are looking for someone with CBT experience who is looking to deliver high quality CBT and develop through regular supervision, CPD and a range of training opportunities to support career progression. We are one of the national Talking Therapies services delivering cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based psychological interventions, through a stepped care treatment model to people in the community with common mental health problems. The role will include delivering both face to face and remote appointments. We are a Stepped care service and work closely with other services in the Trafford borough. The role requires the suitable candidate to work a minimum of 1 evening per week until 8pm. BABCP accreditation is essential. ### Main duties of the job The responsibilities within the role include, but are not limited to: - Formulate, deliver and evaluate evidence‑based CBT interventions for clients presenting with a broad range of complex and enduring mental health difficulties, ensuring treatment is tailored, collaborative and outcome‑focused. - Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, formulation and treatment of clients in line with service protocols, NICE guidance and professional standards. - Contribute to the achievement of service KPIs and performance targets, including recovery rates, access standards, waiting times and clinical outcomes, using routine outcome measures to guide treatment and inform service improvement. - Provide high‑quality clinical supervision to colleagues delivering psychological interventions, including day‑to‑day supervision, skills development and adherence to evidence‑based practice. - Maintain accurate, timely and comprehensive clinical records in accordance with service policies, information‑governance requirements and professional guidelines. - Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners, contributing to integrated care planning, risk management and stepped‑care decision‑making. - Participate in service development and quality‑improvement activity, offering clinical insight to pathway redesign, audit, evaluation and innovation projects. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification All staff are required to work a minimum of 1 evening per week until 8pm, and a minimum of 7.5hours face-to-face throughout the week. All CBT therapists are required to maintain BABCP accreditation throughout their employment. Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements: – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. - 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years - Excellent pension - Cycle to work scheme - Salary sacrifice car scheme - Wellbeing programme - Blue Light Card Discounts - fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles) ### 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 ### Education **Essential** - Qualification from High Intensity IAPT/Talking Therapies Course (Post Graduate Diploma)/ Accredited CBT course - Experience working as a CBT therapist and demonstrating the competences as required. **Desirable** - Supervisor Training - Further training i.e. EMDR, IPT, CFT etc. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Have an understanding of the need for, and current limitations of, evidence based psychological therapies - Possess excellent knowledge and understanding of child and adult safeguarding procedures and other relevant legislation - Good understanding of disorder specific therapeutic models - Good understanding of stepped care model **Desirable** - Have knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems - Awareness and understanding of other therapy modalities within a Talking Therapies service ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant experience in Primary Care settings treating anxiety and depression-related problems - Ability to meet agreed/specified activity and service targets - Ability to manage own caseload and time **Desirable** - Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes - Talking Therapies/IAPT specific experience ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Have full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007) - Have well developed communication skills to effectively communicate, often complex and sensitive information, information orally and in writing. - Have received training in assessing risk (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of their expected practice. - Be able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients - Accredited with professional psychological therapy organisation (BABCP) **Desirable** - Good computer skills - Ability to travel across GMMH footprint ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [job description & person spec cbt b7 2026 (pdf, 322.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10691426) ## 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.