Job summary
This exciting role will play a part in ensuring the delivery of
highly specialised psychological interventions to clients undergoing
drug-assisted therapy, working on a sessional basis.
Working within a holistic person-centred approach, you will
provide psychological interventions, within the parameters of the Awakn
treatment approach, to clients with long-stranding difficulties with varying
complexity.
You will be passionate about supporting clients with complex
mental health needs using innovative treatment methodology.
Main duties of the job
Based within a specially designed trauma-informed workspace in the
heart of Bloomsbury, we offer specialised treatment to our private clients,
providing ketamine-assisted therapy for a range of mental health issues
including depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, eating disorders and alcohol
addiction.
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UKs leading provider
of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies.The service is a clinically
managed by Via. Please click here to find
out more about Via.
At Awakn Clinic, we are a diverse, passionate and highly-skilled
clinical team comprising psychologists, therapists, nurses, specialist support
staff and a consultant psychiatrist. We offer evidence-based and innovative
therapies at the cutting-edge of mental-health treatment.
We are committed to providing high-quality, effective care and
interventions, and to remain at the forefront of new developments in the field
through engagement and collaboration with client experience, research and other
centres of excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose
To work as a sessional member of the multidisciplinary clinical team providing
specialist ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to clients attending Awakn clinics.
To be responsible for delivering psychological interventions to adult clients (age 18+)
with a range of long-standing mental health difficulties, including anxiety disorders,
depression, eating disorders, PTSD and substance use problems.
To work autonomously within the parameters of the Awakn treatment approach and
within professional guidelines under the supervision of a Practitioner Psychologist.
Key duties and activities of the role
To work as a therapist within a multidisciplinary team to provide psychotherapeutic
assessment, formulation and interventions for Awakn clients with a range of complex
psychological difficulties, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within
relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines.
To draw on the Awakn conceptual therapeutic framework to formulate and offer a
therapeutic intervention for a range of mental health difficulties using a specific
evidence-based model for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP).
To continue to develop skills and undertake training as appropriate.
To receive regular supervision from a senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and
attend peer supervision.
To work flexibly to enable the delivery of effective services. This may include
undertaking other duties as appropriate to the role, e.g., attending MDT meetings,
contributing to client assessments and participating in service development activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose
To work as a sessional member of the multidisciplinary clinical team providing
specialist ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to clients attending Awakn clinics.
To be responsible for delivering psychological interventions to adult clients (age 18+)
with a range of long-standing mental health difficulties, including anxiety disorders,
depression, eating disorders, PTSD and substance use problems.
To work autonomously within the parameters of the Awakn treatment approach and
within professional guidelines under the supervision of a Practitioner Psychologist.
Key duties and activities of the role
To work as a therapist within a multidisciplinary team to provide psychotherapeutic
assessment, formulation and interventions for Awakn clients with a range of complex
psychological difficulties, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within
relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines.
To draw on the Awakn conceptual therapeutic framework to formulate and offer a
therapeutic intervention for a range of mental health difficulties using a specific
evidence-based model for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP).
To continue to develop skills and undertake training as appropriate.
To receive regular supervision from a senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and
attend peer supervision.
To work flexibly to enable the delivery of effective services. This may include
undertaking other duties as appropriate to the role, e.g., attending MDT meetings,
contributing to client assessments and participating in service development activities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Passion for working with complex and long-standing mental health and/or substance
- misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
- Appropriate training and registration (e.g., Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or UKCP/BACP
- registered therapist with core professional qualification.
- At least 2 years qualified experience in therapeutic practice.
- Desirable experience of working with people in altered states.
- Knowledge and experience of third-wave cognitive-behavioural therapies and their
- clinical application; e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical
- Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Compassion
- Focused Therapy (CFT).
- Experience in the psychological assessment and treatment of people with mental health
- problems, of varying severity, using formulation to inform psychological interventions.
- Experience of managing client distress appropriately, particularly within the context of
- KAP.
- Experience of assessing and responding to risk issues.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Passion for working with complex and long-standing mental health and/or substance
- misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
- Appropriate training and registration (e.g., Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or UKCP/BACP
- registered therapist with core professional qualification.
- At least 2 years qualified experience in therapeutic practice.
- Desirable experience of working with people in altered states.
- Knowledge and experience of third-wave cognitive-behavioural therapies and their
- clinical application; e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical
- Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Compassion
- Focused Therapy (CFT).
- Experience in the psychological assessment and treatment of people with mental health
- problems, of varying severity, using formulation to inform psychological interventions.
- Experience of managing client distress appropriately, particularly within the context of
- KAP.
- Experience of assessing and responding to risk issues.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
