Trainee High Intensity Therapist

If you're looking for a career that allows you to use your passion for supporting the mental wellbeing of others, you could be just who we're looking for.

We're a busy service, working to ensure our clients get the best possible support - whether that's through ourselves or another, more appropriate service for them.

**About the job**

Are you an experienced mental health or social care worker with a recognised professional qualification working in a mental health setting? Have you considered training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?

Our mental health support service provides high intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to our clients and as a trainee high-intensity therapist, you will complete a programme of training to support your learning and development in this field of therapy.

You will work with people from a whole range of cultural backgrounds and ages, and your particular focus will be those with complex anxiety and depression related problems where CBT has shown to be a particularly effective treatment.

Applications are invited from qualified clinical or counselling psychological therapists, Mental Health Nurses, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. Applicants without a core profession(such as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners or Counsellors without UKCP or BACP accreditation) must be able to meet the required KSA process criteria (see the BABCP website for more information).

**Essential Skills** To be successful in this role, you will:

- have a degree in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or another psychological therapy with evidence of on-going professional development
- be able to evidence your meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP
- have experience of working in mental health services
- be able to build good working relationships, with clients, colleagues and other mental health services
- have good knowledge of and a particular interest in working in CBT
- be able to demonstrate your understanding of anxiety and depression, how to recognise it and the medication used to treat it
- have experience of carrying our relevent risk assessments
- be able to manage your time and caseload, prioritising and managing conflicting demands in order to meet our service levels
- able to attend and complete the academic course associated with the role (two days per week)
- have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report and letter writing
- offer some flexibility in relation to working hours or location from time to time

This role requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS certificate.
- experience of working with anxiety and depression in a stepped care service
- experience of working in Primary Care Services
- experience of working in a service where there are agreed targets in place to demonstrate clinical outcomes
- the ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
- are fluent in languages other than English
- experience of working with diverse communities within a multicultural setting

**About Company** Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service,community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year. We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.