Trainee High Intensity Therapist

Executive Mandate Specification

Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 6**

Salary range £35,392 – £42,618 per annum**

Full-time 37.5 hours per week

Offer of permanent post once qualified (AfC Band 7, starting salary £43,742)**

Job locations – various

This is a training role with a Talking Therapies service in Cheshire & Merseyside leading to a postgraduate diploma in High Intensity Psychological Interventions (HIPI) Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. Successful applicants will enrol with the allocated training provider.

Applications are invited from individuals who can demonstrate a high level of skill and substantial experience of working successfully with people experiencing common mental health disorders such as depression or anxiety. You may already be working in an approved BABCP | British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies core profession such as a nurse, occupational therapist, social worker, counsellor or psychological wellbeing practitioner (P

Please note where relevant a completed Knowledge Skills & Attitudes (KSA) MUST be submitted no later than midnight on the day before interview toKSA@chester.ac.uk quoting your application ID & job reference.

The role of a High Intensity Therapist involves the delivery of high intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) whilst undertaking a programme of intensive training. The training will equip the postholder to provide CBT to clients with a range of common mental health difficulties for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

You must be able to demonstrate the ability to work within a high volume, performance managed service, manage your own caseload and time and be an effective communicator.

Trainees will have access to regular clinical and caseload management supervision and the opportunity to provide the full range of interventions to meet the requirements of the course. There will be some self-directed study outside of the working hours.

Successful completion of the training programme will lead to the offer of a permanent position within a Cheshire & Merseyside Talking Therapies service.

Talking Therapies Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Warrington, Wirral, Western Cheshire, South Cheshire & Vale Royal are service providers delivering psychological therapies as part of the national Talking Therapies initiative and are working in a collaborative approach to the recruitment of the trainee IAPT workforce across Cheshire and Merseyside. Please note: these services are delivered by different organisations.

Within the application form you will be asked for your service preferences (first and second choices). Please take time to read the supporting documentation including the Talking Therapies service descriptions.

You should have a real interest in helping people with anxiety and depression and be able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients to achieve a level of recovery to improve their overall wellbeing and day to day life.

Please take time to read the full job advert and job description/person specification for this role and in your application demonstrate how you meet the person specification criteria you will be shortlisted against at the application stage.

Please read the Service Descriptions document describing both NHS organisations and not-for-profit organisations providing Talking Therapies services. Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is hosting the centralised recruitment on behalf of all the services listed. All services listed are recruiting for the training course to start in Autumn 2023.

Important note: if you have previously attracted Health Education England (HEE) funding for a PWP role there must be two years between the date of successful completion of the PWP training and applying for a trainee HIT role

Statutory Executive Benefits & Governance

• Executive Health, Vision & Dental Coverage with Global Provider Options
• Corporate Pension Auto-Enrolment / 401(k) Retirement Plan with Fiduciary Matching
• Annual Discretionary Performance Incentive & Long-Term Equity Participation
• Executive Leave Allotment, Statutory Holidays & Dedicated Health Care Reserves
• US Department of Labor & E-Verify Work Authorization Sponsorship