# High Intensity Therapist CBT - Fixed Term Maternity cover

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Unither House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** High intensity therapist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
- **Contract type:** 1 year (This fixed term vacancy is to cover a period of maternity leave)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (one evening clinic is expected, as well as two in person clinics per week)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T06:40:32.902Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Chertsey/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/NHS_Talking_TherapiesIAPT/NHS_Talking_TherapiesIAPT-v8342552
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8342552?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Mind Matters Surrey NHS are a NHS Talking Therapies service looking for an enthusiastic and motivated therapist for a fixed term maternity cover.

Your role will be delivering evidence-based interventions, one to one and in group settings, to adults (aged 17yrs+) who have a range of Anxiety and Depression related problems.

You’ll be joining a strong, supportive team which is part of the Surrey and Borders NHS Partnership. We offer all the NHS benefits, including the agenda for change salary, NHS pension and the 5% outer London Fringe. We are a forward thinking and progressive service offering plenty of opportunities for further training and career development.

We’d like to hear from you if you are a CBT Therapist that can meet the requirements below:

- IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies Post Graduate Diploma in Psychological therapies
- BABCP Provisional/Full Accreditation
- Recent evidence of working as a CBT Therapist within IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies
- Good IT skills and excellent communication skills and demonstrable ability to work in a collaborative way with colleagues and other services.
- There is a requirement to work a minimum of 1 late nights ( Mon-Thurs, 8pm) per week and to offer 2 in person clinics
- In person clinics will be based across Surrey according to service need

### Main duties of the job

- Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Provide treatment as necessary, conveying CBT and other psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of attended clinical hours per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
- Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
- Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
- Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies in the care provided clients.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Working within an IAPT service at High Intensity level

**Desirable**

- Working within an IAPT service at High Intensity level post qualification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- IAPT post graduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies
- BABCP membership/accreditation

**Desirable**

- Trained in another NHS Talking Therapies appropriate HI modality

## Documents

- [vacancy links (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2727)
- [job description (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10669193)
- [carers information (pdf, 604.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2716)
- [pension scheme booklet (pdf, 5.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3102)
- [conflict of interest - esr (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3101)
- [sabp competency profile map (pdf, 672.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2714)
- [mindful employer information (pdf, 195.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2715)
- [benefits of nhs pension scheme (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2717)

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