Job summary
- Main area
- High Intensity Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-EAL-008
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Bernard's
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
High Intensity Therapist
Band 7
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
Ealing NHS Talking Therapies was one of the first Talking Therapies services to launch in 2008, and is one of the three services provided by West London NHS Trust. We are a large team of over 70 members of staff and are currently working on further expansion. Our main base is in Ealing where we have access to over 16 clinic rooms and two open plan offices. In addition to this, we run clinics at GP surgeries across the borough, covering areas such as Southall, Acton, and Chiswick. Our service is well-established and many of our staff have been with us since the beginning.
Clinical and line management supervision is part of our success, and as a qualified high intensity therapist you will benefit from weekly clinical supervision, monthly line management supervision, and monthly step 3 clinical skills. In addition to this, we operate a duty system on a daily basis with daily debrief to make sure that all new assessments are discussed promptly.
Main duties of the job
Ø To provide a qualified specialist CBT service to clients from Ealing NHS Talking Therapies service. These clients are primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. This involves providing specialist CBT assessment and therapy.
Ø To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. It will involve supervision of other colleagues including trainee HI therapists and PWPs, as well as trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.
Ø The post involves being able to work flexibly and to be able to work at least one evening session (i.e. 12am – 8pm one day). The sessions would be based within the borough of Ealing; this could be either at one of our two main sites either in Southall or Ealing and other Health centres / GP surgeries
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, Occupational therapy) plus a post graduate diploma or higher degree in CBT. Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC)
- To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, or to be able to achieve provisional practitioner accreditation with the BABCP within six months of starting in post.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Fully accredited with the BABCP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an Talking Therapies service
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings. Including outpatient, community, and primary care settings.
Knowledge/skills
Essential criteria
- Experience at working with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at a specialist level
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
- Knowledge of issues relating to primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Lawrence
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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