HI CBT Therapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

HI CBT Therapist (Band 7)

Are you passionate about promoting meaningful and effective therapeutic experiences for patients at Step 3 and wish to expand your skills and knowledge, in a high performing service?

Then we want to hear from you.

We are looking for CBT Therapists or Clinical / Counselling Psychologists who are BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation to join the service at this interesting time of change and expansion within Bedford.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

East London NHS Foundation Trust also provides Talking Therapies services in Newham, Tower Hamlets and a new Digital Service. The four services work together on joint projects, sharing good practice and opportunities for training.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is moving into a new phase of development and expansion. We pride ourselves on creating an environment with "a leader in every seat" so you would be contributing your ideas and creativity to the ongoing development of an innovative service which meets the needs of our diverse local community.

One of the ways in which we achieve this is by running monthly focus groups organised around different service priorities, such as identifying, exploring and taking steps to address inequities in access, experience and recovery for people with protected characteristics. We also run monthly Equalities Forum, Journal Club and Modality meetings, are very active in terms of formal quality improvement projects and provide regular CPD events to support you in your ongoing development as a CBT therapist.

Bedfordshire Talking Therapies (BTT) is an integrated Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) providing a range of Talking Therapies approved interventions.

The successful candidate will provide high intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with patients who have a range of complex Anxiety disorders and Depression related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. As part of their caseload, the post holder will be expected to carry out assessments and offer CBT Groups as well as individual CBT treatment.

The post holder will be required to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary andmay work in various community settings, including GP surgeries and community venues. We would particularly welcome applications from people who speak another language in addition to English.

This is a hybrid role with our therapists currently working towards two days on site offering face-to-face therapy across a variety of clinical spaces in Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough, and three days working from home offering video therapy.

The service seeks to provide ease of access for service users and to this end there will be a requirement to work flexible hours between 8am and 8 pm based on service requirements. Whilst this post is based in Bedfordshire, you may at times be required to provide cover and assistance to other East London Foundation Trust Talking Therapies teams, for example supervision by the medium of Teams, cross service trainings, etc. The post holder will be expected to work constructively and flexibly as part of the Bedfordshire Talking Therapies team and with colleagues in other East London Foundation Trust IAPT teams.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026