CBT Therapist in Bognor Regis

Are you a qualified CBT Therapist looking for the next step in your career? Are you looking to work in a team renowned for its patient-centered and supportive culture? Do you want to be part of a well-established service making a difference in the community? If you want to join one of the country's leading NHS Talking Therapies services, then we would love to hear from you!

We are one of the top performing NHS Talking Therapies services in the country, leading the way in the provision of NICE recommended psychological therapies. We are focused on patient care, clinical excellence, innovation, and collaborative working.

We currently have vacancy for a part-time BABCP accredited CBT Therapist to join our Long-Term Conditions Team in West Sussex to help us continue to build on our success. The successful candidate will work with a range of adults with anxiety, depression and trauma-related problems associated with long-term conditions in a primary care setting.

You will be working in a blended working model of base and home supported by your management team and clinical leads and work with a friendly, highly competent workforce.

• Provide Step 3 CBT interventions face to face, digitally and in group settings to patients experiencing moderate to severe mental illness.
• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
• Assess clients for suitability for treatment within West Sussex Talking Therapies and specifically for Step 3 Psychological Therapy.
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service referral protocols, and if required, refer clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary with due regard for assessment and management of risk.
• Undertake risk assessment and take the appropriate action.
• Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.

About us: We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing.
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex.
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement.
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities.
• Cost‑effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton.
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks.
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust.
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast.

Our values: Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence – guide everything we do. We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

The post holder will be a Clinician providing Step 3, individual and group CBT interventions, within NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies Long-Term Conditions. There will be responsibility for ensuring that the service ethos of placing patients at the centre of service delivery, and promoting mental wellbeing and emotional resilience is central to the teams activity.

West Sussex Talking Therapies provides NICE compliant psychological therapies within primary care and community settings to patients with mild, moderate and severe depression, anxiety and psychological illnesses. Talking therapy interventions include psycho‑educational courses, guided self‑help, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling, group CBT (Mood Management course) and Mindfulness Courses.

All staff within NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies are required to use the IAPTus data collection and clinical record management system. Our West Team covers Chichester, Bognor and nearby locations. We are commissioned to provide services Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm with plenty of opportunities to work flexible hours and staff have laptops and mobiles allowing for office and home working flexibility.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details.

• IAPT Step 3 CBT Therapist / Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology with current HCPC registration and / or core profession / completed KSA portfolio plus postgraduate qualification (postgraduate diploma or masters) in Step 3 CBT with current BABCP accreditation.
• Membership of a relevant professional body.
• Relevant professional accreditation (HCPC for Psychologists and BABCP for CBT Therapists).
• Additional qualification in another relevant therapy modality (e.g. Mindfulness, ACT, behavioural couples' therapy, systemic therapy, IPT).

• Experience of using CBT to treat the full range of common mental health problems as well as OCD, phobias and trauma.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team setting and working collaboratively with other disciplines from physical and / or mental health.
• Experience of and ability to meet agreed/specified service targets for clinical work.
• Experience and ability to manage own caseload and time.
• Experience of working within NHS psychological therapy services.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.

• Computer literate and competent with standard software packages - internet/MS Office.
• Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communications with ability to adapt style of communication to different professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to demonstrate use of robust risk assessment and risk management skills using service protocols and guidance.
• Demonstrates high standard of record keeping, with due regard for NHS Confidentiality, Data Protection and Information governance, abiding by codes of ethics and guidance for good practice of professional body.
• Has full understanding of the Ethical Principles and Codes of Practice for own professional body.
• Awareness of how Step 3 CBT and other psychological interventions fit into a mental health and physical health referral pathway.
• Ability to complete clinical audits.
• Has used IAPTus or equivalent computerised health record system for record-keeping.

• Commitment to the ethos of recovery and patient focused care to achieve recovery.
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
• Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with patients & in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
• The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system.
• An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and clients.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.