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Job overview
We’re looking for enthusiastic, passionate team players to join our dynamic service as High Intensity Therapists / CBT Therapists.
If you’re committed to delivering high-quality care and making a real difference in people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.
Why Join Us?
- Supportive, collaborative team environment
- Opportunities for professional development
- Make a meaningful impact in the Lewisham community
If this sounds like you, apply today and help us transform lives through evidence-based therapy.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients residing in the Lewisham Borough. This includes:
- Conducting specialist assessments to identify psychological needs.
- Developing individualized treatment plans, primarily using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
- Delivering evidence-based interventions and monitoring progress through weekly outcome measures.
- Ensuring high standards of clinical care and adherence to professional guidelines.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological therapy for clients referred to the NHS Talking Therapies service, integrating complex data from multiple sources, including: Psychological assessments Self-report measures and rating scales Structured observations
- Psychological assessments
- Self-report measures and rating scales
- Structured observations
- Deliver at least one NICE-recommended psychological therapy for anxiety disorders and/or depression.
- Formulate and implement individualized treatment plans based on an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based methods.
- Monitor treatment progress and outcomes regularly to ensure interventions remain effective and aligned with best practice.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non -professional groups
- Skills in tailoring therapy to individual clients from diverse backgrounds and with other specific factors such as neurodivergence, socio-economic stressors, D&A issues and character traits.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and where relevant their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience at working with one or more NHS Talking Therapies-recognised psychological therapies at a specialist level
- High -level knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more NHS TALKING THERAPIES-recognised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of effective care pathway navigation across primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
Desirable
- Skills in tailoring therapy to individual clients from diverse backgrounds and with other specific factors such as neurodivergence, socio-economic stressors, D&A issues and character traits.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of adapting specific NHS Talking
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified HI therapist in TT
- Experience of meeting activity and outcomes targets in a TT setting
- Experience of contributing to service improvement, audit, projects etc
Desirable
- PWP role
- SPWP role
- Experience in secondary care mental health services
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate diploma in CBT for anxiety & depression (IAPT)
- BABCP practitioner full or provisional accreditation
Desirable
- Other relevant MSC
- Other TT modality qualification - 1 pt for each
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This advert is for High Intensity CBT Therapist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum incl. of HCAs (inner). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jun 2026.
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