Intensity CBT Therapist

High Intensity CBT Therapist

The closing date is 21 June 2026

We are looking for a BABCP accredited and qualified CBT therapist to join our wonderful team in Watford, Hertfordshire.

This role will require a mix of office‑base working and remote working. Fully remote working is not permitted, and a minimum of one day a week on site is required, in Watford or Borehamwood. You will be provided with regular clinical and managerial supervision.

You will be part of an APPTS accredited NHS Talking Therapies service that provides consistently good outcomes for our service users, and is integrated within a CQC rated Outstanding NHS Trust.

Whilst observing and following the Trust's Standards, you will organise your working week to provide Assessment and Treatment appointments, amounting to 20 hours of contact per week, and keep these contacts fully recorded in a timely way. These duties will be supported by peer, reflective, clinical and managerial supervisions, 5 days of CPD per year, and a culture of learning, improving, conscientiousness, accountability and compassionate professional support.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 staff members provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g. BPS, UKCP, BABCP) and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the Department of Health (e.g. NHS Plan, National Service Framework, National Institute for Clinical Excellence).

All high intensity CBT therapists are expected to adhere to BABCP codes of conduct.

Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.

Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT and other agreed psychological therapies.

Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.

Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager.

• Post Graduate Diploma in CBT and eligibility for BABCP accreditation.
• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
• Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth & Pilling 2007)
• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at Graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy or an equivalent level of training and experience under the BABCP KSA criteria.
• BABCP Accredited
• Demonstrable experience of working in primary care

• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
• Commitment to developing knowledge of local and wider systems and networks
• Trained in provision of supervision in CBT
• Completed clinical audits within a service
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other mental health problems

• Requirement for regular/daily travel between office base and allocated GP surgeries where service delivered.
• Requirement to carry laptop/files between office base and surgeries in line with all relevant HPFT policies

• Advanced communication skills
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability &…