Job overview

Wellbeing Suffolk provide high Intensity interventions to adults with a range of Mental Health Disorders.  This is an opportunity for a trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Therapist position. The successful applicant will undertake the Post Graduate Diploma in High Intensity CBT at the University of East Anglia. Training takes place over one academic year and involves spending two days per week at university and the remainder of the week in practice at your workplace, (please see qualification criteria below).

This post will provide high intensity interventions to adults with a range of anxiety disorders, depression and trauma related problems. This is an opportunity to join an established team of Psychological Therapists providing a range of NICE compliant treatments. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, consisting of Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Primary Care Counsellors, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners and Employment Advisors.

Main duties of the job

Therapists will be expected to offer brief time-limited therapy within a team of other CBT therapists and are expected to spend 55% of their time providing treatment interventions to clients.  The Wellbeing Service has a number of Key Performance Indicators (targets) and clinicians are supported to achieve these. Treatment takes place both online via video calls, as well as in person, in venues across the county.  You will also take part in facilitating group session / webinars. Full clinical supervision is provided within the service. 

The post-holder will work to provide formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post–holder to provide a CBT service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Such therapy will be provided within a structured setting, working within a National Talking Therapies framework and service commissioned parameters.

This post will be spilt between two bases: Hospital Road and also Mariner House.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

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