Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 pro rata per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7332796/294-MHCA-7332796-JB |
Summary
As a CBT practitioner within our expert team, you will deliver transformative care through both our specialist inpatient programme and intensive home-based therapy, working with patients who have complex needs and have not responded to previous treatments.
Based at our distinguished Seacole Ward—a 14-bed unit within Springfield University Hospital—you'll provide highly specialised psychological services for severe and profound OCD/BDD cases. This unique role offers opportunities to contribute to a nationally commissioned NHS England tier 6 service, work alongside BABCP Accredited therapists, participate in research, and develop advanced specialist skills through robust supervision.
We're looking for qualified mental health professionals who are either BABCP accredited (or working towards accreditation) or HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists. While experience with OCD and BDD is desirable, we primarily seek individuals passionate about developing expertise in this specialist area.
Join us in delivering innovative, evidence-based care at the forefront of OCD and BDD treatment.
As a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist at our nationally-renowned service, you'll provide specialised mental health care at Springfield University Hospital, delivering expert cognitive behavioural therapy to individuals with severe OCD and BDD. Your clinical work will focus on evidence-based treatment approaches within both inpatient and community settings.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
• Collaborate with our multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care through both our specialist inpatient programme and intensive home-based therapy
• Develop treatment approaches for complex cases that haven't responded to previous interventions
• Contribute to service development and research initiatives
Our service combines intensive inpatient care with community outreach, enabling you to work flexibly across different care settings. You'll occasionally travel to support patients across the UK, but your primary base will be our purpose-designed facility at Springfield Hospital.
We're looking for someone who combines clinical expertise with the professional resilience needed to support individuals through challenging periods. If you have experience in specialist mental health care and want to work with a team dedicated to advancing OCD/BDD treatment, we want to hear from you.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Service is due to move to Tolworth Hospital in 2027.
1. To identify the nature, severity and complexity of adult patients’ mental health problems, and to advise both patients and their referrers on appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other highly specialist services and/or non-statutory services where appropriate.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the intensive psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy.
3. To make appropriate use of specialist assessments of patients’ mental health, including structured and semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, rating scales and guided inquiry methods.
4. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other clinicians in Secondary Care on psychological aspects of risk assessment, including the risk of self-harm.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple or family.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the efficiency of all aspects of the service, including assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit.
7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their treatment within the national service.
8. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are within the service remit.
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025