Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (IAPT High Intensity Training) at Greenwich time to Talk, Oxleas NHS Trust and Royal Holloway University.
A full time clinical training in CBT undertaken as part of a paid position as a High Intensity Trainee Therapist
Greenwich Time to Talk, (Oxleas) have four high intensity CBT training posts available for the March 2026 cohort at Royal Holloway University. These will be 12 month (Band 6) fixed term contracts with Oxleas, (or a secondment if you are an Oxleas employee and your current service agrees the secondment).
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme is a national initiative that aims to support Primary Care Services in implementing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders.
About Us (central-london-cbt.com)
The 12 month training in CBT is based at Royal Holloway University at their Euston Campus. For further details please see the link below:
The Post Graduate Diploma in CBT (IAPT High Intensity Programme) that has been specifically commissioned by the IAPT Programme (Department of Health) to deliver the required clinical training to a proportion of the new workforce, based in a large number of the London and out of London IAPT clinical services. This highly successful and well regarded programme has been running since 2008 and was part of the ‘first wave’ of High Intensity Training.
This fantastic opportunity is for existing mental health professionals to complete their training over 12 months as CBT therapists. The trainee CBT therapists will work within the NHS Greenwich Talking Therapies service, providing CBT to people experiencing anxiety and depression.
The training will take place at Royal Holloway University and will be mainly face to face teaching at their Euston Campus. Trainees will spend 2 days per week at Royal Holloway and 3 days per week working with clients presenting with anxiety and depression at our Eltham Team base, you will be completing University assignments and submitting practical tapes for supervision. Client work will be a mixture of face to face sessions with some remote/video sessions.
We are seeking dynamic and enthusiastic individuals who already have mental health experience and training providing psychological therapies and who are searching for the opportunity to train in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. For example, you may already be working as a psychological wellbeing practitioner, (PWP), with 2 years post qualification experience, mental health nurse, occupational therapist, social worker, counsellor or be a newly qualified psychologist.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
- We’re Kind
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- We Listen
- We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Spicer Job title: Senior CBT Therapist Email address: chris.spicer@nhs.net
