High Intensity Therapist Newcastle or Remote

The Role: What you will do?
**Bring your skills, passion, and energy to a team that champions patient care, clinical excellence, and inclusivity Here at VitaMinds, we are looking for dedicated, solution-focused CBT Therapists, who share our commitment to socially inclusive practice and our passion for making people better.**

**If this speaks to you, then we could be the team for you**

**Getting to know Us**
- Hello_ We are VitaMinds Newcastle - the newest NHS Talking Therapies team here at Vita Health Group. We are the lead provider of NHS Talking Therapies services in the Newcastle Gateshead CCG footprint, providing vital mental health support to clients aged 16+. We are super proud of the work we do at Step 3 and see the life-changing impact of our practice every single day

We really do practise what we preach here at Vita, with a company-wide focus on staff wellbeing, a flexible and creative approach to work and a real culture of openness and support. We love to see our colleagues thrive and achieve their personal goals, so we place a real emphasis on quality supervision, rich CPD and encouraging our CBT Therapists to embrace specialist training and leadership opportunities.

**Making People Better**

As a High Intensity Therapist, you will be at the forefront of service delivery here at Vita.

Using your clinical expertise, you will formulate, implement, and evaluate evidence-based therapy programmes for your clients, through individual sessions and group work. Where needed, you will work closely with colleagues at Steps 2 and 4, and external services to manage appropriate step up or step down, at all times maintaining and advocating for patient dignity, confidentiality and inclusivity. You will carry out clinical audits of service performance and user experience and contribute valuable insights to support continuous service improvement.

**Getting to know You**

Every CBT Therapist brings their own unique skills, experiences, and flare to their practice. Alongside this, we are also looking for:

- Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in High Intensity CBT (IAPT)
- BABCP accreditation
- Experience working with people with common mental health problems
- An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion

If this sounds like the right fit for you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team

**Why Vita Health Group?**:
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
- Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
- Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.