Job summaryWe are seeking a motivated CBT Therapist to join our established, award-winning MHST on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is an exciting opportunity to support children and young people by helping reduce waiting times across the county.
Role Overview
You will deliver evidence-based CBT interventions as part of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team, working closely with schools and partner services to improve timely access to care.
Flexible Working
To support county-wide demand, we are open to negotiating your base location and clinical area, allowing flexibility to suit both service needs and your preferences.
Key Requirements
- Qualified CBT Therapist (or working towards accreditation)
- Experience delivering CBT, ideally with children and young people
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Flexible and adaptable approach
Why Join Us?
- Be part of an innovative, award-winning service
- Supportive team environment
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on access to mental health support
- Flexible working arrangements
Contact Gina Legg on 01205 333531 or gina.legg@nhs.net for further discussion or information.
Main duties of the jobYou will need to be enthusiastic and very well organised and able to travel across Lincolnshire as needed to provide services. You will be expected to work on your own initiative as well as work well within a multi-disciplinary setting. You will need to be an excellent communicator and team player.
About usLincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
DetailsDate posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 274-12046-SP-A
Job locations: Countywide. Base and area of work to be negotiated, Lincoln, LN1 1FS, United Kingdom
Job responsibilitiesPlease view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
- Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
- Competitive annual leave allowance
- Car leasing scheme
- NHS pension scheme
- Free eye tests
- Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
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Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Post graduate diploma in CBP and Accreditation with BABCP
- Professional qualification as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker Occupational Therapist or psychological therapy
Desirable- Clinical Supervision Training or significant supervisory experience.
ExperienceEssential- Experience of working with Children and Young People and their carers
- Experience of offering CBT assessments and interventions - individual and group
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome
Desirable- Experience of working in CYP IAPT informed services
- Experience of working in school and college settings
- Experience of offering clinical and caseload management supervision
SkillsEssential- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
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.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website. 
