Cognitive Behavioural Therapist - EIP

The closing date is 1st Nov 2026

Anticipated Interview date(s) TBC

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join our dedicated Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team on the beautiful Isle of Wight. This role is part time at 22.5 hrs per week.

This rewarding role offers the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis, supporting their recovery through evidence-based psychological interventions within a compassionate and multidisciplinary team environment.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

As a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, you will provide high-quality specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based psychological therapies, both individually and in groups, to service users under the care of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team.

Working within professional guidelines and Trust policies, you will support individuals diagnosed with first episode psychosis and work collaboratively with families, carers and other professionals involved in their care. A strong commitment to recovery-focused practice, co-production and person-centred care is essential.

You will also:

Deliver specialist CBT interventions to individuals experiencing psychosis.

Undertake comprehensive psychological assessments and formulations.

Facilitate individual and group therapy programmes.

Provide consultation, advice and supervision to colleagues within the multidisciplinary team.

Work collaboratively with families, carers and professionals involved in service users' care.

Contribute to service development, audit, research and quality improvement initiatives.

Promote psychologically informed approaches across the team and wider service.

Work effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters where required.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualification as an RMN, Social Worker,

Occupational Therapist, or Clinical

Psychologist with post-qualification training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis.

Applications from qualified psychological therapists without a core professional training will also be considered if they meet the other criteria.

AND

Accredited registration with a relevant psychological professional body (e.g. BABCP, HCPC).

Desirable

Training and qualifications in staff training, other psychological therapies, or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of individuals and their families across a range of care settings (e.g. inpatient, community and primary care settings).

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Experience of working with people with psychosis.

Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Ability to teach and train others.

Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Ability to contain and work with high levels of emotional distress and to 'hold' others' stress.

Ability to prioritise work, focus and manage time effectively, including caseload management and organisation.

A commitment to the needs of individuals and carers of the Trust within a recovery ethos

Computer literacy to be able to use electronic clinical records, email, word processing and spreadsheets.

Ability to travel between sites if required

Desirable

Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapy in specific groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

Anne-Marie Hempstead

[email protected]

01983552555

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time

Reference number

348-IOW-12906

Job locations

44-46 Orchard Street
44-46 Orchard Street
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 1JZ