Join a growing, high performing team in an award-winning healthcare company

Vita launched a new IAPT service in North Kent during 2020; now established and consistently demonstrating impressive patient outcomes, we are looking to grow significantly with a talented team of local IAPT practitioners.

To attract and retain a high quality, engaged, and local Kent workforce, Vita are offering a competitive package which includes:

• Professional development/training, including opportunities for supervision training and EMDR
• Flexible working

Ahead of lockdown restrictions easing and face-to-face delivery recommencing, individuals who can work within the Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale CCG footprint are sought as we expand the local workforce. An element of ongoing remote delivery is envisaged and can be accommodated to varying degrees based on personal circumstance.

We welcome newly qualified practitioners and are keen to speak to therapists who can help us make a real difference to the North Kent community.

The Role

High Intensity CBT Therapists to work within our IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) service.

We provide high quality supervision, a friendly and supportive work environment with an overall culture of energy, solution focus and excellence in both service delivery and support to our team. We have a commitment to staff wellbeing enabled via wellbeing advocates, buddy systems, regular contact with peers and the leadership team and more.

Essential Experience:

• High Intensity IAPT Qualification (Post Graduate Diploma) 
• BABCP accreditation 
• Experience working with people with common mental health problems

Benefits

The role offers comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Online benefits portal, including high street discounts and wellbeing zone
• Benenden health cover
• Life Assurance insurance
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Continued Professional Development opportunities and comprehensive training provided
• Enhanced annual leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Access to internal Equality and Diversity Networks/Groups

The Company

Vita Health Group is passionate about making people better. We are a leading UK healthcare provider with over 30 years’ experience delivering best in class physical and mental health services across corporates, NHS, and private patients. We strongly believe in our company values:

• Leadership: We lead the way through innovation and continuous improvement
• People centred: We support, develop and value each other, so together we can make a difference
• Customer focused: We are passionate about going above and beyond for our customers
• Quality: We hold each other accountable and strive to deliver excellence
• Integrity: We treat each other with respect and honesty

We are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer and value excellence in everything we do. We have a strong focus on supporting and developing our employees and are keen to bring on board candidates who share our vision to be a workplace of choice.

We continually look to attract the very best people from the widest talent pool. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to ensuring all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment that you might need in the applications process, you can do so by visiting our website and clicking on “contact us” button located at the top right of the page. Please dial the number for our head office in Bury St Edmunds and ask to speak to a member of our recruitment team who will be happy to discuss your requirements.

Any data you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.

Vita Health Group is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident Committed Employer.  We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Vita Health Group is actively seeking to increase the diversity of its workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to supporting wellbeing for all employees and are associated with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.

Vita Health Group