Psychotherapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Bracknell, RG12 7FR |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7609514/371-MHS873-A |
Summary
Roles available in Bracknell for 30 hours per week & Maidenhead for 22.5 hours per week. Part time roles.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Psychotherapist or CAT therapist interested in gaining additional invaluable skills and experience working in an adult mental health service.
The role involves assessing and treating patients referred for psychotherapy as well as offering your expertise to the wider multidisciplinary team. You will have a thorough understanding of the theory and practice of brief psychotherapies and have skills in psychological assessment and formulation of complex presentations, which may be treated by a range of evidence-based psychological interventions in adult mental health services. You will be part of NHS Trust that is dedicated towards creating a progressive, warm and friendly environment for service users.
This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for a career development, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates, keen to progress in their careers. We will also consider newly qualified psychotherapists providing you have some NHS experience.
• You will work as a valued member of theCMHT inBracknell and/or Maidenheadas well asbeing a part of Berkshire’swiderPsychological Therapiesteam.
• You will provide a highly specialist psychological service to users presenting with severeandcomplex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions,or usersrequiringcomplexorintensive risk management plans andhigh levelsof multiagency work.
• You willinitiatethe safe deliveryof psychotherapy interventions,support other evidence-based interventions, and contribute to the multidisciplinary teams withinone of the twolocalitiesandwithinwider Trust services.
• You will be reliable and knowledgeable,andyou will have great IT skills and be familiar with variousITsystems and software packages.
• You will need access to your owncar andbe able to travel independently across Berkshirewhen needed.The requirement will be for you to be present at base or available to attend,everydayyou are employed.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
• Significant experience working as a qualified Psychotherapist (or accredited CAT therapist), with professional accreditation and registration with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).
• An enhanced DBS check.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We strongly encourage informal approaches and conversations. Please do not hesitate to contact and we will be delighted to help answer any questions you may have. You may contact either Anne Reilly (Lead Consultant Psychotherapist) or Emma Arora (Lead Consultant Psychologist) on 0118 904 7300 or email: Anne.Reilly@Berkshire.nhs.uk.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025
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