High Intensity Therapist - Hertfordshire

High Intensity Therapist – Hertfordshire

Permanent£43,742

Are you a qualified High Intensity Therapist looking to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives? Join our passionate and dynamic team, where you’ll play a vital role in delivering evidence based psychological therapies to adults from a wide range of backgrounds.

About the Role

As a High Intensity Therapist, you will deliver one to one and group therapy sessions to adult service users, providing tailored support in line with IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) guidance. Your role will be crucial in assessing service users for suitability, delivering high quality interventions, and ensuring outcomes that promote recovery and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high intensity, evidence based psychological therapies (e.g., CBT) to adults.
• Assess suitability of clients for IAPT interventions, using robust clinical judgment.
• Facilitate therapeutic groups as well as individual face to face sessions.
• Provide line management to Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs).
• Offer clinical supervision and case management support to other staff.
• Work closely with senior colleagues to fulfil additional leadership and management duties.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external partner agencies.
• Act as the most senior representative on site when required.
• Promote a culture of inclusion, respecting diversity and upholding equal opportunities.

All prison based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take over 3 months . All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that\’s publicly available on the internet to ensure there\’s nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone with the following skills knowledge and experience below to come join us for this role.

• Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care.
• Experience of organising, planning and prioritising own workload
• Knowledge of the criminal justice sector and/or community services
• Experience of Managing and developing staff providing both Clinical and line management supervision.
• Experience in working as a Psychological therapy practitioner with required skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)

Please also see the job description attached for more information about the role.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits –

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata\’d for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here .

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.