Job Overview Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking psychotherapist, with excellent communication skills.
The post holder will carry a full clinical caseload seeing patients under supervision for individual, brief, group psychoanalytic psychotherapy and assessing new referrals.
A major part of the role is the provision of individual once weekly psychotherapy.
This means that applicants should be registered with either the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) or the UKCP cpja college to practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and must have experience of delivering this in NHS secondary care mental health services.
This service has strong ties with the NHS Departments of Psychotherapy in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham, particularly in respect of training NHS psychotherapists through the UKCP accredited collaborative South Trent (ST) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training.
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities) The successful candidate will work autonomously as a Senior Adult Psychotherapist delivering specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy to individuals and groups, and to assess for suitability for this treatment, supervising and support the treatment of patients by other psychological therapists by providing expert advice and clinical supervision and to offer specialist consultation, supervision and training to other clinicians across the Directorate of Adult Mental Health, as required.
The post holder will support teaching and training within the Service at introductory and intermediate levels and as competence develops take on greater responsibility for teaching.
Under the direction of senior staff offer supervision and consultation on therapeutic work undertaken across the Trust, and in Primary Care, Social Services and the Voluntary Sector.
To support senior staff in planning and providing clinical seminars on aspects of psychodynamic psychotherapy to clinicians undertaking training attachments to the Service, planning, organise and lead other teaching and training activities of the Service such as workshops, conferences and lectures under the direction and supervision of senior staff.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages.
Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community.
We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual.
This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.