Adult Psychotherapist

Job summary

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!

This post offers an opportunity for people who have an intermediate level of training in dynamic psychotherapy to work in an established NHS psychotherapy service. The service is based at Gwendolen house in Leicester and is dedicated to the provision of mainly once weekly individual and group psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The post-holder may be supported to undertake a qualifying training in psychoanalyticpsy/chotherapy. The role involves carrying a clinical caseload under supervision and being both part of the dynamic psychotherapy service and linked to a local community team.

The service has strong links with other psychological therapy services as well as with dynamic psychotherapy services in Derby and Nottingham. To meet the demands of this post, an intermediate level of training in dynamic psychotherapy, and experience of working as a psychotherapist is needed, as well as qualification in one of the core mental health professions, or equivalent mental health experience.

Main duties of the job

To see a caseload of patients for dynamic psychotherapy under supervision To be a member of the dynamic psychotherapy team, including CPD and business meetings To see patients for assessment for dynamic psychotherapy and consider suitability of referrals to the service To be have a linkto a local mental health team

About us

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 cri

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Gwendolen House,Gwendolen Road,Leicester,LE5 4QF

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Gwendolen House,Gwendolen Road,Leicester,LE5 4QF

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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