<div><h3>High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapist</h3><p><b>The closing date is 29 June 2026</b></p><p><b>Job: High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapist</b></p><p><b>Salary: Band 7 AFC</b></p><p>To provide High Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).</p><h3>Main duties of the job</h3><p>Walsall Talking Therapies Service within the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression service to the local population of Walsall.</p><p>The service offers a number of evidence-based psychological interventions both at step 2 and step 3 as proposed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance.</p><p>The service endeavours to offer the local population a full range of evidence-based psychological interventions, within a stepped care approach, to a high standard and quality.</p><p>We are excited to begin a process of expanding our team in‑line with Talking Therapies expansion targets and we are now seeking two permanent full‑time High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapists to join and contribute to the innovation and success of our well‑established Talking Therapies service.</p><h3>About us</h3><p>Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.</p><p>Across the whole of the region we provide:</p><ul><li>Adult and older adult mental health services</li><li>Specialist learning disability services</li><li>CAMHS</li></ul><p>Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.</p><p>Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.</p><p>We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.</p><h3>Job responsibilities</h3><p>The post holders will work alongside other High Intensity Psychological Therapists (HIPIs), and will be required to assist in providing step 3 interventions and contributing to the development of the step 3 service being offered.</p><p>The step 3 service primarily offers one‑to‑one evidence‑based psychological treatments delivered through a combination of face to face and video consultations.</p><p>The service also delivers group interventions at step 3 and post holders will be key in developing and shaping the content and delivery of step 3 disorder specific groups to sit alongside the aforementioned interventions.</p><p>Our service is keen to hear from applicants who have the motivation and enthusiasm to contribute to the innovation and improvement existing processes both within step 3 and the service as a whole. We would value applicants who not only have our clients wellbeing at heart, but also the wellbeing of our team.</p><h3>Person Specification</h3><h3>Qualification</h3><ul><li>Postgradate Diploma in High Intensity Psychological Interventions - CBT</li><li>Eligible for BABCP accreditation (i.e. training was through a BABCP level two accredited course)</li><li>Completed Training in Long Term Conditions</li><li>Full or provisional accreditation with the BABCP</li></ul><h3>Experience</h3><ul><li>Worked in a Primary Care Mental Health Service as a CBT Therapist</li><li>Ability to meet service targets</li><li>Ability to manage your own caseload and time</li><li>Experience with routine outcome monitoring</li><li>Experience of teaching or liasing with other Health Professionals</li><li>Working with long term physical health conditions</li></ul><h3>Knowledge</h3><ul><li>Demontrates an understanding of the stepped care model and the need to use Evidence Based Treatment</li><li>Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post</li><li>Knowledge in relation to Safeguarding - Adults and Children</li><li>Knowledge of medication used in Anxiety and Depression</li></ul><h3>Skills</h3><ul><li>Full range of skills and competencies in line with the Roth and Pilling Framework</li><li>To be able to supervise other staff</li><li>Completed training in risk management</li><li>Able to develop therapeutic relationships with clients</li><li>To communicate effectively with others - written, verbal</li></ul><h3>Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3><p>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.</p><p>Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust</p></div>