CBT Therapist
The closing date is 28 April 2026
The North Stoke Community CAMHS Team are looking to recruit a full‑time Band 7 CBT Therapist. The successful candidate will manage the referral pathway, develop the pathway to meet the four‑week wait target, and ensure fidelity to the CBT model, including timely intervention, treatment and discharge.
Job responsibilities
* Manage the referral pathway and develop it to meet the four‑week wait target.
* Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
* Ensure each referral is allocated to the most appropriate CBT therapist or professional in a timely way.
* Ensure fidelity to the CBT model, ensuring timely intervention, treatment and discharge.
* Support the embedding of CYP‑IAPT principles within practice and within the team.
* Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service's referral protocols, and when appropriate signpost clients to more relevant services or back to the referral source.
* Carry out specialist assessments, complex formulations, treatment plans and interventions with individuals, groups, couples and families across all sectors of care.
* Provide specialist evidence‑based supervision to NHS and partner agency staff in Stoke on Trent, North Staffordshire and the region.
* Provide role model and clinical leadership in relation to the delivery of high‑quality mental health care.
* Maintain and develop knowledge of advances in mental health practice and theory, and act as the catalyst for innovation.
* Promote the use of critical skills analysis and innovative approaches to ensure care is reviewed according to service‑user needs and perspectives.
* Ensure that all providers of care throughout the health community are involved in planning, delivering and evaluating care where indicated.
* Exercise professional accountability and responsibility, taking into account the actions of other professionals who are responsible or accountable to you.
* Ensure carers or significant others are included in the planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation of care.
* Demonstrate the ability to weigh the interests of service users in highly complex situations using professional knowledge, judgment and skills to account for the decisions you make, and the specialist clinical leadership you provide for others.
Qualifications
* Mental‑health related professional (e.g., qualified RMN, social worker, occupational therapist, or a psychological therapist) and professionally registered with the appropriate body with either a Post‑Graduate Diploma in CBT, a Masters degree in CBT or equivalent.
* Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist.
* Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
* PG certificate in supervision of the evidence base qualification or willingness to commence within 12 months of being in post.
Experience
* Post CBT qualifying experience.
Knowledge
* Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Equality and Diversity
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. The Trust is also committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
£49,387 to £56,515 a year – pro rata, per annum
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