Job summary
- Main area
- CBT Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7761643
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wakefield House
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/03/2026
Employer heading
CBT Therapist
Band 7
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The Warrington Recovery Team is a specialist secondary care community mental health Team. We are looking for a caring and committed person who is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to join us and be part of a large team of psychologists, CBT/EMDR therapists, assistant psychologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers, psychiatrists and peer support workers.
You will be joining a hard working and busy team providing holistic care/therapies for people who experience symptoms of psychosis, bipolar, severe anxiety related difficulties, depression and PTSD. Your role would be to provide CBT as per NICE guidance within our Recovery Team.
The Warrington Recovery Team provides high quality intervention-based care in both high and low intensity formats. The service is in the process of developing and implementing pathways for psychosis, bipolar and complex PTSD. The successful candidate will have a role in developing and embedding these pathways.
We have a consistent track record of supporting practitioners to develop their skills with further training opportunities available. In the past the team has been successful in securing training for CBTp&b and EMDR. You will receive regular supervision from a qualified CBT therapist and clinical psychologist and be supported to follow CPD opportunities to further develop your career.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team at the Warrington Recovery Team, providing a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to clients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on client's psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate's and 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.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Masters Level (or equivalent) qualification in CBT or Diploma in CBT
- Accreditation by the BABCP
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems 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
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed and effective communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non - professional groups
- Master’s level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialised psychological therapy
VALUES
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of service governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to self-reflect, use clinical supervision appropriately and consider complex organisational and team dynamics
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries in a timely manner
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
- Dr Rachael Line
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 666660
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