High Intensity CBT Therapist

Essential

• High Intensity NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) Post Graduate Diploma with BABCP accreditation and registration. OR RMN, OT or Social Worker qualification, or an Honours degree level qualification in another mental health field, subject to specific suitability check, and able to meet Core Profession equivalence KSA requirements. AND Post graduate qualification in psychological assessment and psychological therapy appropriate to the NHS Talking Therapies pathway as detailed in the Table below with related registration and accreditation.

Essential

• Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
• Demonstrable experience of working in 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

Desirable

• 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 / other relevant modality
• Completed clinical audits within a service

Essential

• Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007) or equivalent for other modalities appropriate to the NHS Talking Therapies pathway
• 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