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North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

CBT Therapist

The closing date is 28 April 2026

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Job summary

The North Stoke Community CAMHS Team are looking to recruit a full time Band 7 CBT Therapist.

The successful candidate will:

Manage the referral pathway and develop the pathway to meet the four week wait target.

Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.

Ensure that each referral is allocated to the most appropriate CB therapist or professional in a timely way to meet the waiting time targets.

Ensure fidelity to the CBT model, ensuring timely intervention, treatment and discharge.

Support the embedding of CYP-IAPT principles within practice and within the team.

Main duties of the job

Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service's referral protocols, and when appropriate to signpost clients on to more relevant services or back to the referral source as necessary.

Carry out specialist assessments, and highly complex formulations, treatment plans, and interventions. Clinical work will be with individuals, groups, couples and families across all sectors of care, including clients frequently presenting severe and/or highly complex difficulties.

Provide specialist evidenced based supervision to NHS and partner agency staff in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire and the Region.

Provide role model and clinical leadership in relation to the delivery of high quality mental health care.

Maintain and develop knowledge of advances in mental health practice, or theory in practice and act as the catalyst for innovation.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Date posted

14 April 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

232-CMT-7910432

Job locations

North Stoke CAMHS

Stoke on Trent

ST6 5JJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Promote the use of critical skills analysis and innovative approaches to ensure care is reviewed according to service user needs/perspectives.

Ensure that all providers of care throughout the health community are involved in planning, delivering and evaluating care where indicated.

Exercise professional accountability and responsibility, taking into account the actions of other professionals who are responsible / accountable to you.

Ensure carers/significant others are included in the planning implementation delivery and evaluation of care.

Demonstrate ability to weigh up the interests of service users in highly complex situations using professional knowledge, judgements and skills to enable you to account for the decisions you make, and the specialist clinical leadership you provide for others.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Promote the use of critical skills analysis and innovative approaches to ensure care is reviewed according to service user needs/perspectives.

Ensure that all providers of care throughout the health community are involved in planning, delivering and evaluating care where indicated.

Exercise professional accountability and responsibility, taking into account the actions of other professionals who are responsible / accountable to you.

Ensure carers/significant others are included in the planning implementation delivery and evaluation of care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Mental health related professional (e.g. Qualified RMN, social worker, occupational therapist, or a psychological therapist) and professionally registered with the appropriate body with either a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT, a Masters degree in CBT or equivalent.
Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist
Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required).
PG certificate in supervision of the evidence base qualification or willingness to commence within 12 months of being in post

Experience

Essential

Post CBT qualifying experience

Knowledge

Essential

Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Mental health related professional (e.g. Qualified RMN, social worker, occupational therapist, or a psychological therapist) and professionally registered with the appropriate body with either a Post Graduate Diploma in CBT, a Masters degree in CBT or equivalent.
Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist
Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required).
PG certificate in supervision of the evidence base qualification or willingness to commence within 12 months of being in post

Experience

Essential

Post CBT qualifying experience

Knowledge

Essential

Full range of skills and competencies as laid out in the competence framework for CBT (Roth and Pilling 2007)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

North Stoke CAMHS

Stoke on Trent

ST6 5JJ

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

North Stoke CAMHS

Stoke on Trent

ST6 5JJ

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)