Talking Therapies High Intensity Therapist

Job summary

North Tyneside Talking Therapies Service is a well established NHS Talking Therapies Service, providing psychological input to the North Tyneside population since 2008. We are a patient focused and pro-active community based primary care service with strong working relationships with GPs and our colleagues in secondary care and specialist services. We are committed to delivering high quality community oriented services, and to working in partnership with service users, carers, health and social care agencies and the voluntary sector.

The team is an integrated mental health service made up of Low Intensity and High Intensity therapists , Counselling, and Employment Support working within steps 2 and 3 of the stepped care model. We work in a blended approach. Mix of working from home completing therapy virtually and working from Northumbria bases.

The service will accept any applications for part time hours/job share arrangements that fit with service need.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated individual to be part of the Step 3 team on fixed term contract, to provide high intensity interventions, in a primary care setting. The post holder will work with clients who have a range of mental health problems for which their Talking Therapies experience has been demonstrated to be clinically effective, and will receive excellent support in their role, including extensive clinical and caseload supervision.

The post holder will work within North Tyneside Talking Therapies Service, providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to clients with a range of moderate to complex mental health problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.