High Intensity Therapist/CBT Therapist - HMP The Mount

For more than 25 years, Forward have been working with people building positive and productive lives, whatever their past. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

It is an exciting time at Forward with the recent addition of providing mental health IAPT services in prisons across Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk.

In this role, you will work with adults on an individual face-to-face basis or through facilitating therapeutic groups working with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages and committed to equal opportunities making a lasting change to peoples lives.

You will provide a range of high intensity evidence based interventions in line with IAPT guidance. There will also be additional management and leadership duties working in conjunction with the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.

• Carry out interventions relevant to individual client needs including 1:1 sessions and group work. Interventions may include Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, brief dynamic interpersonal therapy, counselling for depression, mindfulness based CBT and Behavioural activation therapy.
• Develop and contribute to the thorough care needs of service users, supporting them in the development of release plans which are appropriate to their needs.
• Make decisions regarding the suitability of new referrals.
• Assess Service Users suitability for high intensity Step 3 interventions.

• Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care.
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive risk assessments, including assessment of risk to self and others.
• Experience of delivering high intensity IAPT interventions.
• A thorough understanding of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and the concept of stepped care
• IAPT High Intensity qualification (post graduate diploma)
• Post graduate level of training in psychology accredited by the BPS

• Training opportunities and career development
• Flexible working
• Season ticket loan scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Simply Health - Health Cashback Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (Pro Rata'd for Part Time Employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (rising to 30 days with length of service)
• Excellent contributory pension scheme. Employer matched contributions of up 6% in the first two years' service and up to 9% thereafter.
• Death in service payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical illness insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Job Description - High Intensity Therapist