Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7604381/455-NLFT-0494 |
Summary
This is a training role within the Trust’s Talking therapies Services. The post-holder will work within the Talking Therapies service providing high intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of further training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide cognitive behaviour therapy to clients. The post-holder will provide assessment and treatment and offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to referrers, family members and carers.
The post- holder will work in the service for 3 days of the week, whilst attending the CBT training programme for the other two days.
Basic Requirements for High Intensity Trainees:
Suitable applicants for these posts will be clinical and counselling psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers and Psychological Well-being Practitioners. PWPs will need to evidence that they have attained a minimum of 2 years full time post qualification experience in order to meet eligibility criteria. All applicants to training who do not have a BABCP recognised core profession must enter via the KSA route following their guidelines and complete a portfolio of evidence prior to interview. Applicants will need to demonstrate relevant experience in delivering psychological therapies to adult clients. A knowledge of CBT and primary care experience would also be desirable.
As part of the National Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Programme, Camden and Islington Talking Therapies service (our primary care psychological therapies service) is recruiting suitable individuals for the role of Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapists. We have two 12 month training contracts available in Camden Borough and two in Islington Borough. Successful applicants will work in our Talking Therapies service 3 days per week seeing clients for psychological therapy. On the other two days per week trainees will attend the training program that leads to a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT offered by Royal Holloway. The training programme is usually run in central London.
Applicants
Therapists will demonstrate personal qualities that make them suitable for the practice of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies.
Therapists will use Cognitive and/or Behavioural Therapy in line with the available evidence base as their main, or one of their main therapeutic models
The successful applicants will be highly motivated with the ability to organise and prioritise their own workload with experience of working in IAPT services or comparable professional settings. We are committed to providing an out of hours service and so the post holder will be required to work one evening per week (12-8pm).
This post will be fixed term for 1 year.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
- To assess and provide cognitive behaviour therapy to referred clients.
- To work in designated general practices liaising with GPs and other practice staff in the care provided to clients
- To provide advice, guidance and consultation to referrers, family member and carers
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients
- Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post.
- Apply learning from the training programme in practice
- Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.
- To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To participate in clinical audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service, to help evaluate and improve service provision.
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist or psychological therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To participate in an agreed programme of training and continuing professional development and maintain an active engagement with current developments in practice in areas related to the post.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with the Clinical Team Manager.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025