Specialist Psychotherapist

1 week ago


Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Title: Specialist Psychotherapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Join NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Psychotherapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. Our Trust is CQC rated Good, and we're committed to achieving an Outstanding rating. We have sites across North East London, Essex, Kent, and Medway, providing community and mental healthcare services to adults and children in these areas.

About the Role

We're seeking a vibrant, suitably qualified, BPC registered Specialist Psychodynamic Psychotherapist to join our dynamic Havering secondary care adult mental health psychological service. This post involves carrying out psychological assessments and interventions, offering consultation and supervision to members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

The post holder will join a well-established and well-respected team of psychologists and psychodynamic psychotherapists. We're a friendly, collaborative, and supportive team who deliver individual and group psychotherapy interventions to adults with complex mental health difficulties.

Main Duties
  • Provide a highly skilled psychological service to clients with secondary care (non-psychosis) mental health difficulties.
  • Carry out psychological assessments and interventions, including individual and group psychotherapy.
  • Offer consultation and supervision to members of the multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Work closely with multidisciplinary members of other mental health teams to ensure effective multi-professional communication and decision-making.
  • Contribute to the support of trainee clinical or counselling psychologists or psychotherapy/counselling trainees on accredited training courses.
Requirements
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training to Masters level leading to full registration with UKCP, BPC, or BACP.
  • Core mental health profession or a demonstrable working knowledge of NHS values, clinical structures in secondary mental health care, referral pathways, and how services are funded.
  • Further training in another psychological modality relevant to time-limited psychological interventions, such as MBT or DIT.
  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We're committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here's a snapshot of what's on offer at NELFT:

  • A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff.
  • A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
  • Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations, and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
How to Apply

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.



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