Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health - Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Core service is 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, with some flexibility to work earlier morning and evening clinics each week)
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2579-MF
- Employer
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Mount
- Town
- Accrington
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata (subject to confirmation)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
Band 7
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and self-motivated individual to work for NHS Talking Therapies Service.
This Talking Therapy service has dedicated teams of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and Counsellors who offer a range of support to help people make positive changes to reduce stress and anxiety and improve their wellbeing.
An opportunity exists for a suitably qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, who is passionate about providing meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences to address common mental health problems, to join the Hyndburn and Rosssendale Talking Therapy (TT) team. Hyndburn and Rossendale are beautiful parts of the UK and has lots to offer in terms of activities, stunning scenery and community.
Main duties of the job
TT CBT Therapists offer accessible screening, assessment and treatment for mild to moderate mental health problems, giving service users a greater degree of choice and flexibility by providing an extensive menu of therapies including psycho-education courses, 1:1 therapy, and group and computerised CBT programs.
You will have a proven track record of delivering high quality service outcomes against robust performance measures and have excellent interpersonal qualities; time management skills; an ability to work autonomously; and an enthusiasm for working in an ever-developing IAPT environment.
TT is an innovative and forward thinking service. We provide rapid accessible mental health screening, assessment and treatment whilst enabling people accessing the service to have a collaborative role in the choice of intervention they receive.
The services are underpinned by a philosophy of mental health promotion, health recovery, choice, empowerment and personal responsibility.
In return, we offer continued professional development, high quality clinical supervision, supportive line management and training opportunities both internal and external.
Applicants who have not completed their training as a CBT therapist will not be considered. Applicants need to be BACP fully accredited.
Working for our organisation
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Formally recognised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Post Graduate Level 7 (Master’s Level) diploma
- Accreditation with BABCP
- Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN or Social Worker OR KSA equivalence
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Extensive theoretical and clinical knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.). and disorder specific models
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Experience
Essential criteria
- A broad range of experience of working with a wide variety of clients that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Significant experience of delivering specialist Cognitive Behaviour Therapy assessment and treatment of clients in Adult Mental Health, and managing own clinical caseload of therapy clients safely and effectively
- Experience of managing risk and safeguarding concerns according to relevant policies
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required
- Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
- Ability to cope and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heather Simpson
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Steph Mokler (CBT lead) on [email protected]
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