Trainee CBT Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for Trainee CBT Therapists within the Stoke on Trent NHS Talking Therapies Service. The role involves providing high-intensity cognitive behavioural interventions to clients with common mental health problems under supervision, while simultaneously completing a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT. Successful applicants will be funded for their training and offered Band 7 CBT Therapist posts upon completion, subject to vacancies and service needs. Candidates should have 1-2 years' experience in a mental health setting and ideally hold a core mental health professional qualification.
Essential criteria
- has entry requirements for post grad diploma
Desirable criteria
- holds a core professional qualification
- has experience of working in a mental health setting
- has experience of working in a Talking Therapies Service
- Skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- has entry requirements for post grad diploma
- holds a core professional qualification
- has experience of working in a mental health setting
- has experience of working in a Talking Therapies Service
- Skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Stoke on Trent NHS Talking Therapies Service. The Service is a partnership between North Staffs Combined Health Care, the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and third sector providers and is an innovative high performing Talking Therapies team providing effective treatments for a broad range of mental health problems in primary care, focusing on anxiety disorders and depression.
We are looking to recruit several trainee CBT Therapists. The successful applicants should have 1-2 years' experience working in a mental health setting and ideally hold a core mental health professional qualification. Applicants will be supported to apply for the Post Graduate Diploma in CBT via Keele University for the January 2027 intake.
Shortlisted applicants must be available to attend academic screening mid September. Those passing academic screening will then be offered interviews with the locality team.
If successful, applicants will be funded to work as trainee CBT Therapists within the Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire NHS Talking Therapies Service.
Band 7 posts as CBT Therapists will be offered to those passing the PGD with no performance concerns at the end of training. As far as possible these posts will be accommodated in the clinical placement service, though subject to vacancies and service need may be within another Talking T
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