Senior Adult Psychotherapist

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 registeredwith either the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) or the UKCP cpja college to practice as apsychoanalytic psychotherapistand 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.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate willwork autonomously as a Senior Adult Psychotherapistdelivering specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy to individuals and groups, and to assess for suitability for this treatment,supervisingand support the treatment of patients by other psychological therapists by providing expert advice and clinical supervision and tooffer specialist consultation, supervision and training to other clinicians across the Directorate of Adult Mental Health, as required.

The post holder willsupport teaching and training within the Service at introductory and intermediatelevels 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 supportsenior 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.

Job responsibilities

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

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