Trainee High Intensity CBT Practitioner

Job overview

This is a training role within one of the well-established NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression (TT) in the Black Country which comprises of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. The post-holder will be embedded within the TT service providing high intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role.

The PG Dip. will be delivered by Coventry University and candidates must also apply directly to the university. University teaching will take place on site and interviews will be held in October 2026

This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients with a range of difficulties for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Therapy will be delivered on video or face to face. The role is locality based where travel will be required between sites where necessary, whilst also delivering telephone or virtual appointments across the Black Country footprint. The working week split will be subject to service need and course requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service and assess clients for suitability for CBT
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
• Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
• Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
• To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and

procedures in relation to Mental Health and Primary Care Services.

• All employees have a duty and responsibility for their own health and safety and

the health of safety of colleagues, patients and the general public.

• All employees have a responsibility and a legal obligation to ensure that information processed for both patients and staff is kept accurate, confidential, secure and in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) and Security and Confidentiality Policies.
• To promote and maintain links with Health and Social Care services and the wider community to help coordinate the provision of an effective psychological therapy service.
• To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality (insert) service.

Applicant requirements

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.