Trainee CBT Therapist

Job summary

Trainee CBT Therapist - Personality Disorder

Band 6 Trainee CBT Therapist -Personality Disorder (moving to Band 7 on successful completion of the training programme).

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee CBT Therapist to join the South Warwickshire Community Mental health and Wellbeing Service. The South Warwickshire Service works with individuals with complex mental health presentations which includes individuals with complex trauma and personality difficulties.

As part of community mental health services transformation, the Trust is continuing to develop its offer of specialist therapies that is available as part of the Trusts Personality and Complex Trauma Pathway. Therefore this is a newly created post through Health Education England funding to be able to deliver CBT for personality disorder.

Main duties of the job

This is a development post (Band 6) during which you will undertake a 2 year PGDIP in CBT for Personality Disorder provided by the University of Exeter. The training is fully funded, and specialist supervision will be provided by both the training course and service. On successful completion of the course you will move to a band 7 CBT Therapist in the service.

The post holder will join a friendly and well-established team of psychologists, psychotherapists, a CBT therapist an assistant psychologist and mental health and wellbeing practitioners. The team are dedicated to high quality evidence-based service provision including Trauma-focused CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, EMDR, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.