Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Others
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Others
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience
Specialist training/experience of CBT demonstrated through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychological therapist or practitioner psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology and psychological therapies.
- Experience
Experience of working within an Talking Therapies service and delivering to agreed service targets (e.g. clinical contact hours, percentage recovery)
- Experience
Experience of supervising cognitive-behavioural therapy interventions.
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in the use of complex methods of cognitive-behavioural assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge & Skills
Well developed skills in the 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 both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge & Skills
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS or relevant professional body.
- Knowledge & Skills
Formal training in supervision of other clinical staff.
- Qualifications - Training
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counseling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, Occupational therapy) plus post graduate diploma or higher degree in CBT.
- Qualifications - Training
Accredited as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist by the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP) or nearing completion of accreditation process.
- Qualifications - Training
Professional registration with the appropriate Health and Care Professions Council, if applicable to core professional training.
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Others
Personal experience of mental health problems.
- Others
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience
Experience of the application of CBT in different cultural contexts.
- Experience
Experience of working with two distinct psychological therapies including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
- Experience
Experience of supervising both low intensity and high intensity workers within a Talking Therapies service.
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities or long-term physical health conditions etc).
- Knowledge & Skills
High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge & Skills
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Qualifications - Training
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Qualifications - Training
Postgraduate CBT Diploma.
Job overview
Are you an experienced high intensity therapist looking for the next step in your career? Or an existing senior therapist who is looking for a move to a friendly and supportive team?
We are looking for a new member of our senior team. We need someone interested in quality improvement with clinical expertise, and the ability to nurture and lead staff effectively. In return we offer an excellent and supportive working environment where your wellbeing is our priority, an excellent induction, and ongoing training and development opportunities.
Here at Hounslow NHS Talking Therapies (previously IAPT) service we are proud to be an innovative and dynamic service that prides itself on excellence.
We also offer:
- A values driven environment - Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we treat each other and our patients
- A generous CPD package and leadership development
- A healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week, where staff work at home on some days and on site other days (typically 3 days at home and 2 days in the office)
- Opportunities to lead on key priority areas for the service
Main duties of the job
You will be integral to supporting the team as a supervisor and line manager, as well as maintaining a small clinical caseload and supporting in the operational running of the service.
You will be passionate about providing a high standard of care for our service users. This is completed through high quality therapy and ensuring all parts of the system and its processes are effective and run efficiently. This includes providing supervision and line management along with supporting innovation and the setting up of new processes and ways or working as and when required.
We would participially like to hear from you if are qualified in a second modality in addition to CBT, such as IPT, EMDR or BCT. We would also value a qualification in NHS Talking Therapies Long Term Conditions.
Of course leadership skills are also essential to help problem solve with your team and motivate and encourage high standards of work in a rapidly changing and demanding Talking Therapies service. However, for those candidates without significant management experience we offer a comprehensive induction and line management training package to provide the support and skills required.
You will lead on specific areas within our service in both the step 2 and step 3 teams, the senior’s role is to develop these areas, improve quality and outcomes, as well as taking part in different projects. We are a forward thinking service and we welcome new ideas and initiatives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed
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.
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This advert is for Senior High Intensity Therapist with West London NHS Trust in Southall, England. It is listed as a Band 8 High intensity therapist role. The advertised salary is £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 07 Sep 2026.
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