High Intensity IAPT (NHS Talking Therapies) Therapist

Are you looking for a new role in a friendly team? Are you passionate about providing a vital service to our community?

What we offer:

• A Golden Hello! The ‘golden hello’ will be paid over 2 years. This post attracts an additional 5% bonus payment for two years; this will be paid into your salary as monthly instalments. (Example: HI therapist with 1 years' experience: Basic salary including 15% HCAS £ 46,836 plus bonus payment £2200 total annual salary £49,036
• Relocation allowance – if you are moving more than 40 miles to join our team you can claim moving expenses up to a maximum of £8,000. For example, removal firms, travel costs, legal fees, rental deposits etc. Please contact us for more detail
• A hybrid working week, with some days in the office and some days working from hom
• Full or part time (min 3 days per week) opportunities available
• Team away days, mentoring, a generous CPD programme (including opportunities to train in IPT/EMDR/BCT/MBCT therapies and IAPT supervision), monthly clinical skills, reflective practice, and weekly clinical supervision and opportunities to lead on specialist interests and contribute to service development
• An interesting and varied caseload covering referred and self-referred patients primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression, with a mix of in-person and virtual appointment
• You’ll provide a specialist and caring CBT service to our clients who are primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. This will include providing specialist CBT therapy, facilitating CBT groups and supporting PWPs to facilitate community and/or in-house workshops
• In addition this role involves providing advice on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers, and supervising other colleagues including trainee therapists and PWPs and trainees from other professional groups as appropriate
• You will be based in the Isleworth Centre team base and Health Centres in the London Borough of Hounslow, as well as home working
• This role will include working with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary, and you will be passionate about providing an equal opportunity for all clients to access our services

Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental and physical health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We are rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.

We think Hounslow IAPT is a great place to work. If you would like to discuss this opportunity in more detail, please contact 0300 123 0739, and ask to speak to one of our Step 3 Leads, or email us onnhsnwl.hounslowiapt@nhs.net. For more information about our service and what we offer, please visit our website onhttps://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/iapt/iapt-hounslow