CBT Therapist

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.

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

Main duties include:

• 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.