About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Stoke on Trent NHS Talking Therapies Service. The Service is a partnership between North Staffs Combined Health Care, the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and third sector providers and is an innovative high performing Talking Therapies team providing effective treatments for a broad range of mental health problems in primary care, focusing on anxiety disorders and depression.
We are looking to recruit several trainee CBT Therapists. The successful applicants should have 1-2 years' experience working in a mental health setting and ideally hold a core mental health professional qualification. Applicants will be supported to apply for the Post Graduate Diploma in CBT via Keele University for the January 2027 intake.
Shortlisted applicants must be available to attend academic screening mid September. Those passing academic screening will then be offered interviews with the locality team.
If successful, applicants will be funded to work as trainee CBT Therapists within the Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire NHS Talking Therapies Service.
Band 7 posts as CBT Therapists will be offered to those passing the PGD with no performance concerns at the end of training. As far as possible these posts will be accommodated in the clinical placement service, though subject to vacancies and service need may be within another Talking Therapies team within North or South Staffs.
Main duties of the job
Under supervision the post holder will provide high intensity cognitive behavioural interventions to clients who have a range of mild to moderate common mental health problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective whilst simultaneously meeting the requirements of the Post Grad CBT training course.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job description Job responsibilities
Assess clients for suitability for psychological interventions within the stepped care model.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the stepped care principles and protocols, and direct/signpost unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
Develop communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
Begin to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients in line with the service and university principles.
Adhere to agreed activity relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to meet the requirements of the Diploma course being undertaken.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service and by the University.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
has entry requirements for post grad diploma
Desirable
holds a core professional qualification
Experience Essential
has experience of working in a mental health setting
Desirable
has experience of working in a Talking Therapies Service
Skills Essential
Skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address The Hope Centre
Upper Huntbach Street
Stoke-on-Trent
ST1 2BX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)