Wellbeing Practitioner CYP-PT: Therapy Trainee CBT
Job summary
Bromley Y seeks highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health practitioners to work and train within our service. This is an exciting opportunity for a Trainee (CBT) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes.
We are looking for applicants who are knowledgeable and passionate about Bromley. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide evidenced based interventions for children, young people or families (parents/carers) using CBT. The post holder will work with people from various cultural backgrounds, ages and ability, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Main duties of the job
The CYP Psychological Therapies training programme is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to help implement new & expand existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support. This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions, working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families (parents/carers). You will need to balance a demanding course with self-study and clinical work.
This full-time training will begin in January 2026 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and personal study) and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients related to training assignments. Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with Kings College London. Upon completion qualified trainees will receive a KCL Postgraduate Diploma in Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Therapies: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.Please ensure you read the full advert, job description, KCL Programme Brochure, and Application Guidance carefully.
About us
Bromley Y is a long-established charity based in Bromley that values the voices of Children, Young People (CYP), their families (parents) and/or carers as well as partner agencies. We are a Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service based on the principles of IThrive and IAPT and deliver Early Help and Prevention to those in need. We are very proud to offer a range of therapeutic approaches, from 1:1 evidenced based interventions to group work, digital support, webinars, mentoring and social prescribing.
Details
Date posted
08 September 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£39,009.44 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
B0435-25-0007
Job locations
17 Ethelbert Road
Bromley
Kent
BR1 1JA
Denmark Hill Campus of King’s College London
London
SE5 9RS
Job description
Job responsibilities
- With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals
- Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience
- Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach
- Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at Kings College London including practical, academic, and practice-based assessments, alongside private study
- Apply learning from the training programme in practice
- Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g Future in Mind)
Job responsibilities
- With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals
- Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience
- Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach
- Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at Kings College London including practical, academic, and practice-based assessments, alongside private study
- Apply learning from the training programme in practice
- Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g Future in Mind)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of Bromley, its children, young people and families (parents/carers)
- At least two years experience working therapeutically with children/young people in a mental health setting
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Experience of multi-agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
- Ability to balance academic course requirements, self- study and a clinical case load
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Minimum second-class Bachelors Degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc). OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but with relevant professional experience are encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- A core profession as recognised by BABCP (for example, mental health nursing, social work) or a level 6 qualification (typically this would be an undergraduate degree) and meet the eligibility criteria for the BABCP Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route. To be eligible for the KSA route you would need to have a minimum of 2 years relevant full-time equivalent therapeutic experience in a mental health setting.
Experience
Essential
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of Bromley, its children, young people and families (parents/carers)
- At least two years experience working therapeutically with children/young people in a mental health setting
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Experience of multi-agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
- Ability to balance academic course requirements, self- study and a clinical case load
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Minimum second-class Bachelors Degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc). OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but with relevant professional experience are encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- A core profession as recognised by BABCP (for example, mental health nursing, social work) or a level 6 qualification (typically this would be an undergraduate degree) and meet the eligibility criteria for the BABCP Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route. To be eligible for the KSA route you would need to have a minimum of 2 years relevant full-time equivalent therapeutic experience in a mental health setting.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Bromley Y
Address
17 Ethelbert Road
Bromley
Kent
BR1 1JA
Employer's website
https://bromley-y.org (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Bromley Y
Address
17 Ethelbert Road
Bromley
Kent
BR1 1JA