Cognitive Behavioural Therapist / High Intensity Therapist
Location: HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire
Salary: A GBP 43,742 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 19 th December 2025
Are you a dedicated, compassionate therapist whos passionate about delivering high:quality, evidence:based care?
Were looking for a High Intensity Therapist/ Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our dynamic service and make a real impact in the lives of adults from diverse backgrounds.
In this pivotal role, youll work both face:to:face and through therapeutic groups, offering interventions that follow IAPT guidance. Youll be assessing service users for suitability, delivering high:intensity treatments, and ensuring everyone you support receives the right care at the right time.
Youll also play a key role in supporting the wider team. This includes line managing Senior PWPs, providing case management and clinical supervision, and working closely with leadership to help shape and strengthen the service.
What youll be doing:
* Delivering high:intensity, evidence:based psychological interventions
* Assessing suitability for treatment and supporting patient care pathways
* Providing line management, case management, and clinical supervision
* Working collaboratively across locations and partner agencies
* Acting as the senior on:site representative when required
Who were looking for:
* A qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist accredited with the BABCP, or actively working towards accreditation
* A flexible, team:focused professional who adapts to service needs
* Someone committed to equal opportunities and culturally sensitive practice
* A confident clinician able to take on leadership responsibilities
* A collaborator who builds strong, trusted relationships with colleagues and partners
If youre ready to bring your expertise, energy, and compassion to a service that values its people, wed love to hear from you.
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits:
* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro ratad for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme : Employer matched contributions of up to 6 in the first two years service and up to 9 thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Diversity at Forward Trust
The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with Lived Experience of addiction, offending, or homelessness.
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio:economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments f