Senior Adult Psychotherapist

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 20 May 2024

Job summary

This post in the Dynamic Psychotherapy Service covers the population of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We are part of a Specialist Psychological Therapy Service that includes a Personality Disorder Pathway and a CBT service.

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 South Trent (ST) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training.

We are looking for a forward thinking psychotherapist, with excellent communication skills who can play an active role within the Specialist Psychological Therapies team as we move into service redesign and improvement. The service is based at Gwendolen House Leicester.

The post holder will carry full caseload seeing patients under supervision for individual, brief, group psychoanalytic psychotherapy and assessing new referrals. This means that applicants will need a qualifying level of training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy registered with the CPJA college of the UKCP and have experience of delivering psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the NHS.

Main duties of the job

To work autonomously as a Senior Adult Psychotherapist within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Services policies and procedures.

To deliver under supervision the systematic provision of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy service to patients, taking referrals from all sectors of care.

To supervise and support the treatment of patients by psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy provided by Visiting Therapists and trainees within the Service.

To support and work under supervision to offer specialist consultation, supervision and training to colleagues within Adult Mental Health services

To contribute to policy changes and service development in line with the principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Under supervision undertake research and utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.

To support teaching and training within the Service at introductory and intermediate levels and as competence develops take on greater responsibility for teaching.

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 serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

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 are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

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.

Date posted

20 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-24-0412

Job locations

Dynamic Psychotherapy Service

Gwendolen House, Gwendolen Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

To have undertaken a qualifying training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and be registered with the UKCP (cpja college) or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council)
To have a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, social work, medicine or is able to demonstrate equivalence to a core profession in NHS mental health services

Desirable

Qualification in other psychoanalytically informed models for example Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment
Car driver or suitable alternative
Able to undertake flexible working hours

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field.
Training in and experience of working with a range of other therapeutic models.
Work within a variety of multi-disciplinary team settings, such as inpatient, day patient and outpatient.
Clinical work with patients drawn from a wide range of diagnostic groups.
Clinical supervision of mental health clinicians
Training in specialist dynamic or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, inclusive of theoretical education, and a wide range of clinical work, with supporting in-depth supervision by a trained UKCP CPJA college or BPC registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
An experience of personal therapy research, audit and clinical governance.
Capacity to undertake research and service audit projects under supervision.
Evaluate and research the efficacy and practice of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

Skills

Essential

Capacity to provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a full caseload of patients, including those with severe and complex problems under supervision.
Capacity to organise and manage under supervision a complex caseload of patients who are suffering from severe difficulties and who require specialist Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Capacity to assess new referrals for analytic psychotherapy under supervision following appropriate induction and training.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

To have undertaken a qualifying training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and be registered with the UKCP (cpja college) or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council)
To have a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, social work, medicine or is able to demonstrate equivalence to a core profession in NHS mental health services

Desirable

Qualification in other psychoanalytically informed models for example Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment
Car driver or suitable alternative
Able to undertake flexible working hours

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field.
Training in and experience of working with a range of other therapeutic models.
Work within a variety of multi-disciplinary team settings, such as inpatient, day patient and outpatient.
Clinical work with patients drawn from a wide range of diagnostic groups.
Clinical supervision of mental health clinicians
Training in specialist dynamic or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, inclusive of theoretical education, and a wide range of clinical work, with supporting in-depth supervision by a trained UKCP CPJA college or BPC registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
An experience of personal therapy research, audit and clinical governance.
Capacity to undertake research and service audit projects under supervision.
Evaluate and research the efficacy and practice of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

Skills

Essential

Capacity to provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a full caseload of patients, including those with severe and complex problems under supervision.
Capacity to organise and manage under supervision a complex caseload of patients who are suffering from severe difficulties and who require specialist Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Capacity to assess new referrals for analytic psychotherapy under supervision following appropriate induction and training.

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.