High Intensity CBT Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and passionate High Intensity CBT Therapist to join the Brent Talking Therapies Service (IAPT). You will manage a caseload of anxiety disorders and depression, providing CBT treatment in line with NICE guidance, both digitally and face-to-face. The position involves clinical supervision of Step 2 team members and participation in extended hours clinics. The service offers regular clinical supervision, training opportunities, and flexible working patterns.
Essential criteria
- Substantial specialist knowledge, theory and skills of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy acquired through diploma / degrees with BABCP accreditation
- Must be fully or provisionally accredited with the BABCP or have completed a BABCP accredited high intensity CBT course or diploma programme
- Critical understanding of the relevance of studies of human development, psychopathology, psychology, social issues and evidence-based practice.
Desirable criteria
- Supervisor qualification from a substantial Counselling and/or IAPT modality supervision course, as a supervisor for Counselling, CfD, DIT, IPT, Couples Therapy, EMDR or CBT
- Additional training in specialist areas related to primary care mental health eg LTC, Perinatal, CBT principles, clinical risk assessment
- Other
- Ability to produce highly-quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints
- Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods during patient contact, teaching / supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc
- Ability to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances.
- 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
- To work effectively and compassionately within a large team
- Experience of specialist cognitive- behavioural psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of adult patients in a mental health setting and presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience or knowledge of working with vulnerable people and/or communities and those experiencing loss, bereavement and mental health difficulties
- Experience of working in an IAPT service or other primary care setting.
- Specialist experience acquired through having conducted 200 hours of supervised assessment and therapy during training.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience or knowledge of community liaison and working within diverse communities and groups within the Brent Borough including with people from Black and Ethnic minority backgrounds and with various stakeholders
- Specialist psychotherapeutic working experience
- Experience of the application of psychotherapy in difference cultural contexts.
- Experience of working within a primary care/community setting.
- Research skills and knowledge and aptitude.
- Skills in the use of methods of cognitive behavioural therapy assessment, intervention and management including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base treatment.
- Well-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Knowledge of the psychotherapeutic role
- Highly developed communication skills at overcoming ? barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- Ability to work as a lone practitioner. To plan, organise and prioritise own work and patient caseload
- Ability to record, monitor and report on clinical information as required
- Competence in basic IT systems - keyboard skills.
- Demonstrates an understanding and knowledge of certain barriers the community face in accessing NHS services ,and the health inequalities present in Brent.
- Able to communicate with a wide range of people from different backgrounds and disciplines
- Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi- media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Awareness of potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapy in specific difficult- to-treat groups (e.g. complex needs, personality disorder, somatoform disorders, persons with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the academic literature of the speciality.
- Awareness of other models of Psychotherapy
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
High Intensity CBT Therapist
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and passionate CBT Therapists to join Brent Talking Therapies Service (IAPT) located in thediverse and vibrant community of the London borough of Brent. Our team is keyin the work we do and service provided to the population of Brent.
You will have opportunities for regular clinical supervision from the senior leadership team, specialist supervision for PTSD and training opportunities, such as Behavioural Couples Therapy, MBCT and LTC. You will provide clinical supervision to our Step 2 team, including qualified and trainee psychological wellbeing practitioner and will receive supervision training to equip you in doing this. Our Step 3 team also provide supervision for our trainee clinical psychologists and CBT trainees on placement with our service.
Wellbeing is important within our service, and we are a diverse, collaborative and cohesive team. We offer flexible working patterns including onsite and remote working.
Main duties of the job
You will hold a Step 3 caseload of anxiety disorders, and depression and offer CBT treatment in line with NICE guidance. At Step 3 we offertreatment digitally and face-to-face in order to best meet the needs of our service users. In your role you
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