High Intensity Therapist- CBT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 23.5
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves delivering high-quality Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) interventions within the South Tyneside Talking Therapies service. The post holder will conduct screenings and provide high-intensity CBT to adults with common mental health problems, working with diverse cultural backgrounds. They will manage their own caseload, contribute to group work, and collaborate with partners to address client needs holistically. The service is award-winning and focuses on staff development and wellbeing.
Key responsibilities
- Provide screenings and high intensity CBT interventions as part of the Talking Therapies team.
- Work with adults who have a range of common mental health problems using NICE high intensity treatment interventions of CBT.
- Work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary.
- Meet targets set nationally and locally for access, recovery and waiting times.
- Uphold the Trust vision, values and behavioural compact.
Essential criteria
- Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
- Qualification from High Intensity CBT Course (Post Graduate Diploma or Degree)
- OR
- Equivalent:
- e.g. A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology/ post graduate qualification training in CBT to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma
- AND
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
- Demonstrable experience of working in adult mental health services
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Full range of skills and competencies required to deliver relevant
- Computer literate
- 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
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- High level of enthusiasm and
- Motivation.
- Advanced communication skills
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience in Primary Care treating anxiety and depression.
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT
- Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation
- Completed clinical audits within a service
- Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
- Fluent in languages other than English
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
High Intensity Therapist- CBT
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Do you want to join an
innovative service delivering high quality treatments in primary care to people
with common mental health problems?
Do
you have the ability to both deliver high quality interventions, and develop
the skills and knowledge of other practitioners in South Tyneside Talking
Therapies?
Do
you want to be part of a team described by its current staff as supportive , excellent, andamazing ?
If
the answer to these questions is yes, this post could be for you.
South
Tyneside Talking Therapies is an award-winning service and one of the highest
performing services at both regional and national level.
Main duties of the job
The
post holder will provide screenings and high intensity CBT interventions as
part of the Talking Therapies team which also includes other therapeutic models
such as, IPT, CAT, EMDR, CFD, Couples Counselling and Person Centred Counselling.
The post holder will be expected to have a commitment to a
holistic model of mental health and working with partners to address client
need through 1:1 work and group work.
There
is recognition that staff can realise their potential through effective
clinical and management supervision, managerial support, and through access to
internal and external tr
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