Job summary
- Main area
- Wellbeing IAPT services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-WSN7349722
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mariner house
- Town
- Suffolk
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Step 3 Clinical CBT Supervisor - NHS Talking Therapies Suffolk
Band 7
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
Wellbeing Suffolk service is a NHS Talking Therapies programme, providing primary care assessment, advice and psychological interventions to people in Suffolk, who want help with common mental health problems of anxiety and low mood. Interventions are delivered both face to face and remotely through telephone and video call.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Step 3 Clinical Supervisor with extensive experience of delivering CBT, to join our team. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical supervision (including case management) to Step 3 clinicians, ensuring supervisees work safely and professionally, adhering to NICE guidelines and professional/service guidance.
Applicants must hold full accreditation with the BABCP and will have experience of offering clinical supervision to other therapists.
This is a permanent position. The service has sites in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. There will be an expectation of both working from service sites and home working.
Main duties of the job
As part of the role you will be involved in assisting the clinical leadership team in supporting and developing the High Intensity part of the service and helping the service achieve its required key performance indicators.
You will also be responsible for your own, small caseload. Providing assessment and treatment for people presenting with common mental health problems, within the NHS Talking Therapies framework.
This service is delivered via a partnership between Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) and third sector providers. We deliver a bio-psychosocial model which includes psychological, employment and social interventions across the county. Our treatments are delivered face to face, by telephone or MS Teams video call and online via webinars.
Working for our organisation
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:
- 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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview date is to be confirmed. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a date and time slot if you are short listed. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
To find out more about NSFT and Wellbeing please visit our websites: www.nsft.nhs.uk and www.wellbeingnands.co.uk
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of CBT/Therapies and extensive experience in the application of appropriate models of practice, according to client needs
Desirable criteria
- Substantial experience in managerial/clinical supervision of others casework, particularly in an IAPT context
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification and registration in a recognised mental health profession BABCP accreditation as a CBT/Therapist (may have been gained following successful completion of High Intensity Therapist Training)
Desirable criteria
- IAPT Supervision qualification.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, ability to exercise judgement in identifying and assessing complicated events or problems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Helen Piper-Windus
- Job title
- Senior CBT Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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