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Specialist Psychological Therapist: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The closing date is 17 May 2026
This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and forwardthinking Community CAMHS team as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. The Winchester Test Valley CAMHS team have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 CBT therapist, working 30 hours a week, to join our Community CAMHS team across our two offices in Andover and Winchester.
You will deliver highquality, evidencebased CBT interventions to children and young people experiencing a range of mental health difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, OCD and traumarelated presentations. Working collaboratively with families, schools and partner agencies, you will play a key role in helping young people build resilience and move towards recovery.
The role requires strong CBT skills, sound clinical judgement and a genuine passion for working with children and adolescents. You will manage a defined caseload, contribute to assessments and formulations, and engage actively in multidisciplinary discussions. BABCP accreditation (or working towards) is essential, as is a commitment to reflective practice, safeguarding and outcomefocused care.
You’ll be part of a welcoming, experienced CAMHS team that values psychological thinking and invests in its staff. We offer regular highquality supervision, protected CPD time and opportunities to shape service development. If you're looking for a role where your expertise is valued, your development supported and your work truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* To carryout specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources
* To provide clinical placements for trainee psychological therapists, and trainee Psychological Practitioners ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such.
* To contribute psychological knowledge and expertise to policy and service development through participation, where practical, in regional multidisciplinary meetings and special interest groups, working parties etc that may impact on the functioning of the service.
* To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
* To support the team with aspects of generic CAMHS work including contacting parents of young persons to respond to clinically relevant cases and to update care plans and risk accordingly.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A recognised post graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (or equivalent).
* Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP).
* A recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions recognised by BABCP, e.g. psychiatric nursing, practitioner psychology, medicine, social work, occupational therapy or counselling AND current registration with the core professional body, OR evidence of having achieved the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route to BABCP accreditation.
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
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.
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