The Gloucestershire Mental Health Intermediate Care Service (NHS Talking Therapies) is passionate about providing psychological therapies for the population it serves. We offer NICE compliant treatment to patients experiencing mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
We are a busy and expanding service that has four clinical teams. The NHS Talking Therapies team comprises of Clinical leads, Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees and an assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
The Service provides evidenced based psychological interventions using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and other NHS Talking Therapies approved therapies. We deliver treatment over the telephone, in groups, face to face and using digital therapy options.
We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and skilled individuals who will join our team as a high intensity trainee CBT therapist. The role will require you to undertake an intensive one-year PGDip Psychological Therapies Practice (High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) at the University of Exeter.
You will need to attend university as required, which will include up to nine blocks of teaching of four days per block. Most teaching will be 2 days per week, with the rest of your working week spent providing high intensity CBT Assessment and CBT Interventions in accordance with NICE guidance. You will receive clinical supervision in the workplace and University to develop your clinical skills.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Successful candidates will either have a BABCP recognised core professional training qualification or will be able to provide evidence that that they have practiced within the mental health BABCP career framework of training in mental health and can produce a completed KSA Portfolio at interview which includes evidence of working in mental health. This will need to be shared with the University ahead of the interview.
Information of relevant core professions, KSA documents and guidance can be found on the BABCP site under: Accreditation / CBP.

THE BABCP’S REVISED KSA REQUIREMENTS CAN BE FOUND AT:

https://babcp.com/Accreditation/Provisional-Accreditation/Knowledge-kills-and-Attitudes/Professions-eligible-for-Condensed-KSA-Portfolios
As part of your application, please provide a brief statement in support of your application for the post of IAPT HI trainee with reference to the NHS Values in accordance with The NHS Constitution.
When completing this section, please directly address the service user. For your information, there may be a service user representative on the interview panel or involved in the shortlisting process.
Please note that in accordance with national Guidance. Anyone who has received HEE funded training in the last 2 years. cannot be recruited as an HI IAPT trainee until 2 years post qualification, as a minimum. These 2 years of practice commence only at the date of confirmation of the full HEE funded qualification by the University, not at the end of the teaching timetable. Significant mental health experience prior to taking up a funded role will also be expected.
This standard in monitored nationally by the BABCP. Please also refer to IAPT National recruitment guidance available on the NHS
England website at www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/adults/iapt/workforce/ and the HEE website https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/mental-health/psychological-professions/nhs-funding-psychological-professions-training-programmes
KSA applicants: Please see BABCP website for guidance on how to compete a KSA
The university guidance on completing and submitting a KSA Portfolio will be shared with shortlisted candidates.
KSA applicants need to submit a complete KSA Portfolio at interview and
this needs to be assessed as part of the interview process. The KSA Selector will assess the KSA Portfolio provided by the KSA Candidate following the interview. Any job offer would be subject to the KSA portfolio being assessed as satisfactory.

Please refer the Job description for details