Job summary
- Main area
- Psychotherapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3125
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Crouch End Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum including HCAs (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

CBT Therapist/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
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Job overview
Are you passionate about providing evidenced based psychological therapy to people struggling with a range of psychological difficulties including anxiety and depression, that is flexible and personalised to the service user? Do you want to develop personally and professionally, through regular high-quality individual supervision, and a range of team activities and ongoing CPD opportunities including specialist therapy trainings as available (e.g., IPT, DIT, EMDR, training in CBT for Long Term Conditions)?
This role is within the Haringey’s Talking Therapies service offering high quality therapies, in an environment that is supportive for staff. We subscribe to the BABCP Positive Practice guide.
We are committed to staff development and specialist areas of clinical expertise through supervision, training and research opportunities, and reflective spaces. We have a diverse workforce, so we particularly welcome staff members who can speak and work in languages that reflect the diverse communities in Haringey.
We are mindful that working in a fast-paced service with people experiencing psychological distress can be challenging and we proactively support all our staff. We encourage flexible working and staff are encouraged to negotiate a working pattern that allows for a good work life balance.
This is a hybrid role (office/home working). Staff are required to work part of the week in any of the locations around Haringey with the opportunity to work part of the week at home.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists with experience of working with adults with a range of mental health difficulties to join our successful, and supportive team. You will be providing assessment and high intensity psychological interventions.
As a CBT therapist/Psychologist, you will work with adults with a range of anxiety and depression disorders using CBT.
CBT therapists will offer (or work towards offering) supervision to trainees, and advice, consultation, and training within the service, as well as having the opportunity to contribute towards shaping and developing by taking the lead in a specific area of interest.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
- Assess clients for suitability for CBT. Where the problems appear to be too complex or severe to be appropriate for the Talking Therapies service, to refer to manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
- Contribute to diagnostic decisions and advise on the suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients using CBT.
- To make an assessment of risk for patient and others and take appropriate action when necessary.
- Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed a PG Diploma in CBT or in High Intensity (IAPT Pathway) and be accredited with the BABCP or a registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, with PG level training in CBT with BABCP accreditation
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has received training in, and carried out, risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Desirable criteria
- Experience supervising other CBT clinicians.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 of providing evidence based psychological interventions (in particular CBT)
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Demonstrates an understanding (and formal training) of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience in teaching and liaising with other professionals
- Experience in establishing diagnoses
- Experience in using IAPTUS
- Experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in languages other than English, in particular common languages in Haringey such as Turkish and Spanish
- Able to integrate training into practice
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Ellard
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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