Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Therapist

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Therapist for the Canopi Service

Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences

Cardiff University School of Medicine

College of Biomedical and Life Sciences

We are looking for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) therapists to join the Canopi team in School of Medicine, based at the Hadyn Ellis Building, Cathays campus.

In This Role, You Will

• Provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Canopi clients, delivered via telephone, online and in person
• Able to demonstrate expert professional knowledge around CBT best practices and be recognised as an authority in the field.
• Participate and support supervision within the CBT team.

We’d Like To Hear From You If You

• Are a British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) accredited therapist or clinical Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) with an experience of working as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) practitioner with a wide variety of clinical presentations
• Have substantial experience of managing patients within statutory services and mental health pathways and experience of supporting patients from the NHS and voluntary sector.
• Have experience of contributing to best practice within a mental health service

We can offer you the chance to work in a vibrant organisation, with great benefits and opportunities for progression.

For an informal, confidential discussion about the role, please contact Naomi Marfell (Canopi Manager): marfelln@cardiff.ac.uk

This post is full time (35 hours per week), available immediately and fixed-term until 31 March 2027.

Part-time working will be considered. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Salary: £51,039 – £55,755 per annum (Grade 7). Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale unless in exceptional circumstances.

This role is eligible to be offered on a blended working basis, meaning that as well as spending time working on campus you may spend some time working from another location, e.g. your home. The University is committed to offering this flexibility, wherever the role and business need allows, supporting work-life balance.

Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 45 days annual leave (incl bank holidays), local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments within the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

How we will support you in performing in this role –

Role

There are some things that you must have before you can start this role (see ‘Essential Criteria’), but other things can be developed either through training, or just by general on-the-job experience. We want to support and develop you once you have started in the role using a combination of the following to get the best out of you:

• Regular one-to-ones with your manager
• An experienced and supportive team around you
• Supporting you through job-relevant training and development that you may require
• A mentoring scheme

Date advert posted: Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Closing date: Friday, 8 August 2025

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Job Description

Job Purpose

Support the University within the Canopi service to deliver 1:1 individual CBT interventions to Canopi clients, providing advice, guidance and support, and leading projects within this area

Duties And Responsibilities

Key Duties

• Provide time-limited (maximum 8 sessions) CBT therapy to Canopi clients. Sessions are delivered via telephone, online and in person according to client preference.
• Ensure that Canopi policies and procedures are followed, specifically in relation to data protection and safeguarding, responding in a timely manner to issues that arise.
• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to ensure that client records and data are kept up to date and ensuring that outcome measures are completed for clients and used to support the client’s CBT sessions.
• Ensure the maintenance of excellent standards of practice, observing BABCP ethical framework and/or other guidance, and keeping up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Heath
• Take responsibility for resolving issues independently within client CBT sessions, where they fall within set role objectives, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action and ensuring complex and conceptual issues and solutions are understood by clients
• Contribute to the development of best practice within the service creating recommendation and supporting advances within the Canopi service.
• Establish relationships with key contacts to ensure role objectives are meet, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required
• To actively engage in ongoing personal and professional development, making full use of

supervision, appraisal, and learning opportunities. Participate and support supervision within the Canopi CBT team.

• Instruct and guide other employees within the Canopi service as required.
• Develop and deliver training around CBT to the wider Canopi team

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
• Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Qualifications And Education

• BABCP accredited CBT qualification or Postgraduate doctorate in clinical psychology or equivalent with ability to deliver CBT therapy. Registered with the BABCP as a CBT therapist or HCPC to practice as a clinical psychologist in the UK.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Substantial experience of managing patients within statutory services, mental health pathways and supporting patients from the NHS and voluntary sector.
• Able to demonstrate expert professional knowledge around CBT practices, to be recognised as an authority in the field
• Proven experience of conducting assessments for service, including initial assessments and comprehensive risk and safeguarding assessments

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working

• Able to influence senior decisions and contribute to the development of best practice within the Canopi service
• Evidence of ability to explore patient/clients’ needs, adapt the service, and set patient/client expectations
• Proven ability to develop networks in order to contribute to long term developments

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving

• Evidence of ability to effectively manage a case load and ensure all client records are kept up to date
• Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within specialist discipline, ensuring you are following current evidence-based practices
• Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams’

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
• Fluency in Welsh, written and oral
• Substantial experience of working as a CBT practitioner with a wide variety of clinical presentations

Additional Information

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria

It is the School of Medicine\’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.

Please ensure when submitting this document / attaching it to your application profile you name it with the vacancy reference number, in this instance for this post, 20306BR

If candidates do not provide written evidence of meeting all of the essential criteria then their application will not be progressed. The School of Medicine welcome the submission of CVs to accompany evidence of the job-based criteria.

Salary Range Min.

51,039

Salary Range Max.

55,755

Job Category

Health, Management & Executive, Medical & Dental

Grade

Grade 7 #J-18808-Ljbffr