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Cognitive Behaviour Therapist

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Spalding, PE11 3DTView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

6 October 2026

7 days left

Job description

LOOKING FOR A NEW, VARIED AND EXCITING ROLE IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our mult...

You will provide assessment and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a range of presenting difficulties for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

We have various teams across the MHST, all in various stages of training. This role will therefore give you a great opportunity to work with both qualified staff and trainees. The role also offers a flexible style of working, as the team use a hybrid model, offering support both face-to-face and virtually to education staff, children, young people and their families.

You will need to be enthusiastic and very well organised and able to travel across Lincolnshire as needed to provide services. The post holder will be expected to be able to work on their own initiative as well as work well within a multi-disciplinary setting. They will need to be an excellent communicator and team player.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Post graduate diploma in CBP and Accreditation with BABCP
  • Professional qualification as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker Occupational Therapist or psychological therapy

Desirable: - Clinical Supervision Training

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with Children and Young People and their carers
  • Experience of offering CBT assessments and interventions - individual and group
  • Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome

Desirable

  • Experience of working in CYP IAPT informed services
  • Experience of working in school and college settings
  • Experience of offering clinical and caseload management supervision

Skills

Essential

  • 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.
  • Computer literate.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
  • Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
  • Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
  • Completed clinical audits within a service
  • High level of enthusiasm and motivation
  • 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

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

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First seen

24 September 2026

Last checked

28 September 2026

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About the employer

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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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