Trainee High Intensity CBT Therapist

We are excited to advertise two new Trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapist posts in our Older Adult CMHTs. We are looking for individuals experienced in mental health services (e.g. RMNs, OTs and Social Workers) to join us for a two-year training scheme. The trainee posts will be split across our borough CMHTs: Croydon; Lewisham; Lambeth and Southwark. This is an exciting opportunity to support the transformation of older adult community mental health services and your training will be fully funded by the NHS., This role will contribute to ensuring older adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.As a Trainee CBT Therapist, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of an Older Adults community mental health team (CMHT) delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems., This is a training post which will have three elements: one day per week to attend training at UCL; approximately two days per week to complete CBT work for the course with the remaining time used to support your team in various ways. It is expected that the role is focused on supporting and promoting psychological approaches in the day to day clinical work of the team so this may include group work, psychoeducation, delivering psychologically informed interventions and undertaking assessments. There will be supervision from the CMHT Psychology & Psychotherapy service to support specialist psychological practice.

The Older Adult service is a dedicated service to meet the mental health needs of people aged over 65, which is highly valued by service users and their support networks. This means we work with a range of presentations from depression, anxiety to trauma and psychosis and sometimes these difficulties present in the context of dementia: our work is fascinating and important as we work with a vulnerable and interesting client group. We are a multi-disciplinary service: our CMHTs work to provide ongoing support to people living at home whilst our HTTs provide short term input to support people in crisis Each borough CMHT is based as follows