Trainee High Intensity Iapt - London, United Kingdom - West London NHS Trust

West London NHS Trust
West London NHS Trust
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Are you a mental health or social care worker with a recognised professional qualification or equivalent experience, working in a mental health setting? Have you considered training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?

Hounslow IAPT are recruiting for a Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapist:

  • One-year paid fixed-term training contract
  • Starting in March 202
  • Three days working within Hounslow IAPT and two days at university (PGDip
  • Royal Holloway, UoL)
Hounslow IAPT is a well-established, friendly, and diverse service, priding itself on supporting the development and wellbeing of our staff through:

  • Weekly clinical supervision, monthly Reflective Practice and line management supervision; daily duty/debrief system to address risk or safeguarding issues
  • making the service an ideal place for trainees to develop their skills with substantial support around
  • Opportunities for career progression, with staff having progressed from trainees to seniors
  • A dedicated wellbeing team who promote a healthy worklife balance and organise regular team events; a 'Joy at Work' QI project team who have involved the whole team in developing small, but impactful changes to cultivate a little more joy
  • Flexible, agile working policy, with staff combining working from home and on site (our main base is in Isleworth, with community locations from Chiswick to Feltham, many close to lovely independent cafes and businesses we often allocate these considering people's commutes)
- "This is a training role within the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT)

  • This intensive training post will equip the post holder to provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) assessments and NICErecommended CBT treatment to people presenting with moderate to severe depression and anxiety for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. Appointments take place in person, via video, or via telephone.
  • To work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary, being committed to equal opportunities
  • To provide advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to nonpsychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers
  • To work one evening shift a week (128pm) as we are passionate about engaging all groups of our community, we operate evening clinics (up until 8pm) Monday
  • Thursday
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
  • To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service"


West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.


Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.

We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.


We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).


Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.


We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

"Applications are invited from qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. Applicants without a core mental health profession (such as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or counsellors without UKCP or BACP accreditation) must be able to meet the required KSA process criteria (see the IAPT website for more information).

Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification document.
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