Job overview
Calling all High Intensity CBT Therapists…………..
Our highly regarded Dorset Steps to Wellbeing services are recruiting to our CBT teams in the Rural locality, Mid/West Dorset and Weymouth/Portland.
We are looking for individuals with energy, enthusiasm, and a high level of skill and experience. All staff will work as part of a team and receive regular clinical supervision. The successful candidate will offer a combination of face-to-face, online therapy, and group facilitation. To meet service needs, there will be an expectation to work at least one evening per week until 20:00.
The Steps 2 Wellbeing service prides itself on being innovative and is passionate about development. We promote opportunities for career development and ongoing professional development, including training in Long Term Health Conditions and other treatment modalities.
We are recruiting for permanent qualified High Intensity CBT Therapists for the Mid/West Dorset and Weymouth/Portland areas.
We welcome informal enquiries. Please contact Stuart Mead [email protected] or Rachel Madden [email protected].
Main duties of the job
You will provide one-to-one and group high-intensity CBT within a stepped care model for adults with common mental health problems, including depression and a range of anxiety disorders.
Good administrative, time management, and communication skills are essential. Experience of working within the NHS or a similar organisation is highly desirable.
Working for Dorset Healthcare Trust provides many benefits and opportunities, including:
- Dedicated career pathways and great opportunities for continuing professional development.
- A focus on values and behaviours that aim for all staff members to feel valued and supported in their roles and feel proud to work for Dorset Healthcare.
- NHS Pension Scheme.
- Generous holiday entitlement.
- NHS discount and salary sacrifice schemes.
- Not forgetting our unique selling point-out trust beach huts located along the famous Sandbanks coastline.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.
Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
We understand that using AI can be a useful and supportive tool when completing your application. However, we have also seen an increase in the over-reliance of AI tools which is negatively impacting applications as they remove candidate’s individuality, and it becomes much harder to get a sense of who you are and your authentic experience. If you do use AI, it should be used to enhance your application and not to create your supporting statement in its entirety. If we suspect you have used AI to create your supporting statement and this does not match your experience, we may withdraw your application.
As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [email protected]
Person specification
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Essential
- Ability to drive with access to transport to meet service requirements
Personal Qualities and Aptitudes
Essential
- High level of enthusiasm, motivation, and self-reflection.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and case management positively and effectively
- An ability to work under pressure advocate for individual rights or autonomy and maintain appropriate confidentiality.
- The ability and skills to engage and foster good professional relationships with other healthcare professionals
Desirable
- Experience of working with difference and diverse communities
Skills / Experience / Knowledge base
Essential
- Demonstrated experience of working in mental health services with clients who present with a range of mental health issues and degrees of complexity.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Well developed computer/digital skills and an ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients their families/carers and other professional colleagues.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Demonstrates and understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates and understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
Desirable
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Evidence of commitment to Continued Professional Development
Educational Requirements/Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course [Post Graduate Diploma]
- Accreditation with appropriate professional body (HPC, BABCP).
Desirable
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of– nursing, social work, occupational therapy or a psychological therapy plus further post graduate qualification training in CBT
- A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology
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This advert is for High Intensity CBT Therapist with Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust in Poole, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 p.a.. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Jul 2026.
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