High Intensity Therapist

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are recruiting High intensity therapists to join our Talking Therapies (IAPT) service. Specifically, we are looking for those with a CBT qualification enabling them to practice in Talking Therapies services, and must hold accreditation with the BABCP.
This is an exciting time to join our services; we are growing as a team so that we are able to reach more people across the town and engage them in therapeutic support.
High intensity therapists equip people with the tools and techniques they need to overcome complex problems related to anxiety and depression.
You’ll make a difference to people’s quality of life by providing a range of evidence-based interventions. You’ll be based in an NHS Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT), working with those aged 16+ from a variety of backgrounds.
You’ll work with people with depression and anxiety disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The service offers a hybrid approach to working. This means therapy sessions will take place both face to face (either in person or remotely via video platforms) and via telephone where clinically appropriate.
Your role will be to assess a service user’s suitability for evidence-based psychological interventions, formulating and implementing treatment and evaluating progress. Once treatment begins, you’ll meet with service users regularly, usually weekly, to measure and review progress and tailor treatment accordingly. A clinical supervisor will support you in your work to help you engage in self-reflection, seek and respond to feedback, and develop your professional knowledge and skills.
You’ll have undertaken formal training in the therapy or therapies that you deliver in NHS Talking Therapies, and will be accredited by the relevant professional body (BABCP for CBT therapists).
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To work as a qualified high intensity therapist, you will have undertaken training in a one of the high intensity therapies such as:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression
• Couples therapy for depression
• Brief dynamic interpersonal therapy
• Counselling for depression
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• Behavioural couples therapy

Please refer the Job description for details