Trainee CBT Therapist

at  Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a trainee Psychological therapist to join one of the Crisis resolution / Home Treatment teams (CRHTT) in Suffolk. The successful candidate will be provided two years of CBT training, supervision and support. Upon successful completion of the Post Graduate qualification you will be able to take up a post of CBT therapist. The training will focus on Psychosis and bipolar but will also cover the wider spectrum of difficulties supported by Mental Health services.
This role is a 2-year fixed term appointment during which time the post-holder will complete a postgraduate diploma programme in a specialist form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT for psychosis and bipolar programme). It will lead to a permanent band 7 psychological therapist post at the end of this period if the postgraduate diploma programme is completed successfully.
Applicants will need the academic confidence to work at post graduate level.
Your application can identify if you have a preference of training base as Ipswich, Woodlands.
The post-holder will work to provide formal psychological interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post–holder to provide a CBT service to service users with a range of complex presentations for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post-holder will work in the service for 4 days of the week using the newly developed skills, whilst attending the training programme for the other day. Due to the complexity of the service users in the CRHTT teams it may be that some cases are taken from other services such as wellbeing in the early stages of training.
Responsibilities
As the successful candidates’ skills develop the complexity of the cases will also develop.
Offering assessment and formulations to cases felt to be appropriate for the level of training
Identifying service users who may benefit form Evidence based CBT interventions
Developing formulations for the team
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
NHS England sets the expectation that a person has a ‘Core mental Health profession’. This is MH nursing, social worker and Occupational therapist and CAP’s who are BPS registered (with additional knowledge requirements) if they have been qualified for 2 years. Applicants who have not got a core profession will need to demonstrate sufficient previous training and knowledge to achieve the standard set out by the BABCP KSA route

Please refer the Job description for details