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Are you passionate about delivering meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients and wish to expand your skills and knowledge in a high performing service? Then Bedfordshire Talking Therapies is the service for you!
Bedfordshire Talking Therapies is an expanding Talking Therapies service that offers low and high intensity interventions in individual, couple and group formats. We consistently achieve excellent recovery and reliable improvement rates due to our focus on delivering flexible packages of care, designed to meet patient needs. We have specialist treatment programmes to support accessibility for patients and strive to be flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of our Bedfordshire population.
You will be joining a team who prioritise Quality Improvement, continuous professional development and staff thriving at work. Participation in focus groups, Quality Improvement projects and supporting further development of the service will be a key feature to this role.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is moving into a new phase of development and expansion. Your ideas and creativity would be welcomed in contributing to the delivery of an innovative service, which meets the needs of the local diverse community.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to carry out telephone and face to face assessments, individual and group work as part of their case load. We value experience of delivering therapy in a group format as well as being dual trained in more than one modality.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and work in various community settings (including GP surgeries) and psychological treatment centres or Children’s Centres. At present, the majority of clinical work is delivered remotely, with a small provision of face-to-face contacts being offered from our clinical bases in Bedford and Dunstable and the surrounding communities.
As a Talking Therapies service we seek to provide ease of access for service users and to this end there will be a requirement to work flexible hours between 8am and 8 pm based on service requirements. Whilst this post is based in Bedfordshire you may, at times, be required to provide cover and assistance to other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams, for example supervision by the medium of Teams, cross service trainings, etc.
The post holder will be expected to work constructively and flexibly as part of the Bedfordshire Talking Therapies team and with colleagues in other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
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Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions to patients with common mental health problems
- Experience of running groups
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrate high standards in verbal communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers, clients and other professionals.
- Experience of working in primary care psychological service
Knowledge & skills
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety disorders (Social Phobia, BDD, OCD, GAD, Health Anxiety etc) and depression and how these problems may present in Primary Care
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Understanding of issues surrounding clinical safety
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Educational qualification and training
Essential
- CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS/ Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Or Post-graduate doctoral/masters level training in counselling psychology), trained in or willing to train in an IAPT modality such as PE CFD, IPT or DIT.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
- Qualified in one of the following modalities: Person centred experiential counselling for depression (PCECfD), Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT), Interpersonal therapy (IPT) or couples counselling for depression
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This advert is for Relational Therapist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Jun 2026.
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