High Intensity Trainee Manchester, England
Job description
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust are now recruiting into salaried trainee CBT positions.
We would like to recruit Trainee Cognitive Behavioural Therapist/High Intensity Therapist into salaried 1-year trainee positions, with the offer of future employment in one of our services upon successful completion of the training. We are looking for people with a commitment to scientific practice with a willingness to learn new skills and a desire to improve the health and wellbeing of people with common mental disorders.
Psychological therapies are talking therapies that can be used with people with anxiety disorders and depression. As part of a national IAPT (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies) programme
Services are committed to supporting recovery for people with anxiety and depression-related problems, including people with long term physical health conditions such as diabetes and respiratory problems.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
We are committed to selecting people with excellent potential who have a desire to learn and develop and who have personal characteristics that relate to effective psychological practice. In order to qualify for interview, you will need to demonstrate all the essential criteria in the person specification within your application.
You will benefit from working for an organisation that is part of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, and as such, is able to drive innovation and work collaboratively to improve practice and deliver high quality care. As a partnership, we are proud of our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Greater Manchester and we support each other via network meetings and other events which you may be able to be involved in.
The successful applicants will be be given the opportunity to state for which locality they would like to work, Bolton, Salford, Trafford , Manchester and Wigan. We cannot guarantee the first choice of employer but will endeavour to place you in a team that is mutually acceptable.
Successful completion of the training programme will result in a post-graduate qualification (level 7) and will enable you to work as a HIT within a Talking Therapies service with your own caseload.
