Gordon Moody, a charity treating gambling-related harm, is recruiting a CBT therapist to deliver psychological assessment and structured treatment across individual and group work. The post centres on evidence-based CBT for people with gambling problems who also have anxiety, depression or trauma, alongside managing clinical risk and safeguarding within a multidisciplinary team. It spans residential and remote programmes at 35 hours a week, with EMDR training desirable. BABCP accreditation, or working towards it, and a postgraduate CBT qualification are essential.
What the job involves
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment for people experiencing gambling-related harms
- Deliver evidence-based CBT in individual and group settings
- Develop collaborative treatment and risk management plans
- Facilitate psychoeducational, relapse prevention and therapeutic groups
- Support people with co-occurring anxiety, depression and trauma-related symptoms
- Monitor and manage clinical risk, safeguarding concerns and service user wellbeing
- Keep accurate, timely and confidential clinical records to GDPR standards
- Work with therapists, recovery workers and support staff, including MDT meetings and case discussions
- Liaise with GPs, mental health services, social care and partner agencies for continuity of care
- Support service users to engage with onward recovery and community support
- Take part in clinical supervision, reflective practice and CPD
- Contribute to audit, service evaluation and quality improvement, and promote trauma-informed approaches
What’s required
Qualifications
- BABCP-accredited CBT therapist, or actively working towards accreditation
- Postgraduate qualification in CBT (PG Diploma or equivalent)
- Relevant professional registration or core profession qualification, e.g. mental health nursing, psychology, social work, counselling or psychotherapy
Experience
- Delivering CBT within a mental health or addiction setting
- Undertaking specialist psychological and risk assessments
- Facilitating therapeutic groups
- Treating PTSD and trauma, and supporting complex emotional or psychological difficulties
Skills & knowledge
- Strong knowledge of CBT theory and evidence-based interventions
- Understanding of addiction recovery models
- Understanding of relapse prevention and motivational interviewing
- Strong safeguarding and risk assessment knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Working autonomously while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams
Other
- Managing emotionally distressing situations professionally and sensitively
- Strong organisational and time management
- Maintaining accurate clinical documentation and outcome measures
Nice to have
- Training in motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care or addiction treatment
- Further training in group facilitation or behavioural addictions
- Experience in gambling harms or behavioural addiction services
- Experience supporting co-occurring mental health and addiction needs
- Experience delivering remote or online therapeutic interventions
- EMDR, or other modalities such as CAT, DIT, IPT, DBT, MBCT or ACT
- Awareness of current developments in behavioural addiction treatment
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
