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Are you keen to join a supportive, multi-disciplinary team of highly experienced practitioners and leaders, who are passionate about making a difference to people's lives?
About the role
We are looking to recruit a number of Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapists to join With You Talking Therapies in Kent and Medway. This exciting opportunity includes an NHS funded Postgraduate Diploma course which will give you the skills to assess and deliver NICE recommended CBT interventions in community settings, for people suffering with symptoms of anxiety and depression.
This is a permanent full time role for 37.5 hours per week, dependent on successfully obtaining the Post Graduate Diploma. We are committed to your continued development and retention within our organisation.
The position will be home based but travel within Kent will be needed to attend the Post Graduate Diploma training course at Surrey University, in person client work in the community and team training and meetings. As the course starts mid September, successful applicants will need to be available to start employment by 11th September 2023.
If you would like any further information about this position, please contact the HR/People Team on people@wearewithyou.org.uk.
If you're excited by the thought of making tangible differences to the lives of vulnerable individuals, we'd love to apply. To apply for this position or find more information on the application process please visit this link to complete the NHS jobs application form.
We will provide you with the experience you need to develop your clinical practice and equip you with the skills you need to help clients on their journey to recovery. The first step to achieve this is a thorough induction shadowing qualified CBT therapists and CBT therapy groups. Throughout your role you will provide therapy to clients with a range of common mental health problems to develop your clinical skills.
If you would like to know more about what it is like to work in With You Talking Therapies, you can click here to watch a video recorded by three of our Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, about what it is like to work in our services.
Required Skills
Candidates should have a BABCP recognised core professional training and provide qualification and registration documents as proof at interview. Please visit the BABCP website for more details on core professions.
Applicants without a core profession (such as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners or Counsellors without UKCP or BACP accreditation) must be able to demonstrate they have met the KSA criteria by completion of a KSA portfolio prior to interview (see BABCP website for more information).
Applicants from other specified health and social care professional backgrounds, which are not included as ‘Core Professions’, will be entitled to complete a Condensed KSA portfolio. Please see further details of relevant qualifications and requirements here.
Please note that applications from Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners must demonstrate at least two years post-graduate experience within the PWP role.
About the 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.
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also Disability Confident Committed and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
Benefits
- 28 days holiday plus a bank holiday allowance (pro rata for part time staff)
- Enhanced employer pension contribution
- Death in service benefit scheme
- Flexible working patterns to help with work life balance
- Training and development opportunities
- 24/7 access to an employee assistance programme, free counselling and access to the Headspace app
- Cycle to work scheme
- Payment of accreditation fees on completion of qualification
- Salary finance scheme to help improve financial wellbeing
- Paid time off for care and dependent responsibilities, and bereavement leave
Additional information
This is a permanent full time role for 37.5 hours per week working Monday to Friday. The position will be home based but travel within Kent is likely for in-person client work in the community and team training and meetings.
