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CYP Psychological Training: Therapy Trainee – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - Supporting Smiles

Location: Norwich Hub (with travel across Norfolk & Waveney and to Anna Freud, London for training)

Salary: £34,467.72 per annum 

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours

Start date: 6th January (university start date is 19th January)

Contract: 1-year fixed-term training post

About the Role

We are excited to invite applications for a Therapeutic Practitioner (CBT) trainee post within our Supporting Smiles service. This is a fully funded training role as part of the NHS England Children and Young People’s Psychological Training (CYP-PT) programme (formerly CYP-IAPT).

As a trainee, you will:

• Work directly with children, young people, and families, delivering CBT interventions under supervision.
• Split your time between practical clinical work (2.5 days per week) and postgraduate study with UCL/Anna Freud (2.5 days per week).
• Gain a UCL Postgraduate Diploma in CBT for Children and Young People upon successful completion.

This is a fantastic opportunity to apply academic learning in practice, make a direct impact on young people’s lives, and develop your therapeutic career.

About Supporting Smiles

Supporting Smiles provides professional mental health support to children and young people across Norfolk and Waveney through our therapeutic pathways and Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner teams. Our holistic approach combines the expertise of our therapeutic practitioners, counsellors, and children’s wellbeing practitioners. We aim to deliver accessible, inclusive, and community-driven mental health support to children, young people, and families.

Our service’s name, Supporting Smiles, was co-created with input from the children and families we support. We are part of Norfolk & Waveney’s Children and Young People’s Alliance, an integrated mental health service network guided by the THRIVE principles – ensuring support is needs-led, accessible, outcome-informed, promotes shared decision-making, partnership working, and proactive prevention.

Within this framework, Supporting Smiles primarily delivers care within the Getting Help quadrant of the THRIVE Framework. This means we provide focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people who need more targeted support with their mental health and emotional wellbeing, but who do not require highly specialist or intensive services.

We also work closely with partners across the other quadrants (Getting Advice, Getting More Help, and Risk Support) to ensure children, young people, and families receive the right level of support at the right time.

(For more information about the THRIVE Framework principles, see: https://implementingthrive.org/principles-of-the-thrive-framework/)

About You

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated candidates who are:

• Passionate about improving children and young people’s mental health.
• Committed to evidence-based practice, accessibility, equity, and inclusion.
• Able to study and write at postgraduate level (degree-level qualification required).
• Flexible and willing to travel across Norfolk & Waveney and to London for training.
• Experienced in working with children/young people in a mental health or related setting (desirable).

Training Details

Training begins 19th January 2026.

Delivered by UCL/Anna Freud (London), with teaching approx. 2.5 days per week.

Supervised clinical practice with Supporting Smiles approx. 2.5 days per week.

Applicants must complete a dual application process: one to Ormiston Families and one to UCL.

For more information on the programme:

https://www.annafreud.org/ucl-postgraduate-study/ucl-postgraduate-programmes/child-and-young-person-iapt-therapy-pg-dip/

To apply please click on the apply online button

Apply separately to UCL for the academic programme.

Direct UCL application link: https://evision.ucl.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login_enc?0qhYzuG1h9udTFM8i9sPhtGiUgIR6D6iP0QBDHq24aUE7Anl4FtDGBDmc3LlBtzaVi6cWmaNYWo=

Application guidance document: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17bbinRzAlIfH8SKe3t18I2m14L7sli5e?usp=drive_link

Please refer to the guidance document “UCL CYP PT Therapy – Application Guidance for Candidates August 2025” for details.

Any queries, please email:   brittanie.collins@ormistonfamilies.org.uk

Closing Date: 9am, Friday 26th September 2025

Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities

Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.

We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.