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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Contact

Address: Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; Essex; IG3 8XJ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

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Jobs Website

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Ref: 395-PP183-25 Vacancy ID: 7724675

High Intensity Trainee

Accepting applications until: 04-Mar-2026 08:00

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 04-Mar-2026 08:00

Location

Site: Havering talking therapies
Address: Petersfield Centre
Town: Petersfield Avenue
Postcode: RM3 9PB
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 2 years (Fixed term - 2 years)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (3 days placed based and 2 days studying at university in year one and in year 2 placed based full time)

Salary

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: CBT Trainee

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. CLINICAL
1.1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
1.2. Assess clients for suitability for CBT. Where the problems appear to be too
complex or severe to be appropriate for a trainee therapists to refer to
manager/supervisor for advice on how to manage the case.
1.3. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s
referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or
back to the referral agent as necessary.
1.4. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
1.5. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary,
conveying CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
1.6. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts
offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise
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waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and
convenient.
1.7. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment,
where appropriate.
1.8. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
1.9. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
1.10. Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate
step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care
approach.
1.11. Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the
overall therapy process
2. TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
2.1. Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post.
2.2. Apply learning from the training programme in practice
2.3. Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to
meet the required standards.
3. PROFESSIONAL
3.1. Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer
and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP,
BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by
the department of health (e.g NHS plan, National Service Framework,
National Institute for Clinical Excellence).
3.2. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
3.3. Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of CBT
3.4. Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed
with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional
development.
3.5. Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with
Manager.
3.6. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed
objectives.
3.7. Keep up to date all records in relation to Continous Professional
Development and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date
specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery
models/developments.
3.8. Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional
objectives.
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4. GENERAL
4.1. To contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
4.2. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies
and procedures in relation to Mental Health and Primary Care Services.
4.3. All employees have a duty and responsibility for their own health and safety
and the health of safety of colleagues, patients and the general public.
4.4. All employees have a responsibility and a legal obligation to ensure that
information processed for both patients and staff is kept accurate,
confidential, secure and in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) and
Security and Confidentiality Policies.
4.5. It is the responsibility of all staff that they do not abuse their official position
for personal gain, to seek advantage of further private business or other
interests in the course of their official duties.
4.6. This Job Description does not provide an exhaustive list of duties and may
be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder in light of service
development.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP

Desirable criteria

experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression.

Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Demonstrates high standards in written communication Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in Primary Care Services Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

skills and competencies

Essential criteria

Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training Computer literate Excellent verbal and written communication skills Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Karen Merrin
Job title: Senior HI therapist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0300 300 1554
Additional information: This is a two year fixed term post. the successful candidate (subject to completion of the course) will obtain a CBT qualification and also remain within Havering Talking Therapies for a year to consolidate learning and experience.