Specialist Psychotherapist

Job summary

37.5 Hours Per Week

My Name is Damian Madden and Im the Service Manager for NHS Kirklees Talking Therapies.

We are excited to welcome applications for a new full time Specialist Psychotherapist to work across Kirklees to offer supervision and support to qualified and trainee psychotherapists in the service.

You will liaise with external stakeholders and monitor the effectiveness of internal pathways to ensure compliance with KPIs.

It is essential you hold both a specialist professional psychological qualification and accreditation, you must be able to demonstrate experience of clinical leadership and delivering service improvement within a primary care psychological therapies service and have substantial experience of delivering clinical supervision.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

The team you will provide clinical leadership for provides NICE compliant psychological therapy incorporating CBT, Counselling and Guided Self Help to clients in primary care across Kirklees. This is an 8-8 service Monday to Friday, and we offer sessions either by Microsoft Teams, telephone or face to face.

We hold clinics both in Trust premises and also in primary care settings across the area to ensure that were, as much as possible, nearby for the people that use the service.

We treat clients with common mental health problems such as depression or anxiety disorders like Generalised Anxiety Disorder, OCD, PTSD, social phobia or body dysmorphic disorder.

I would invite you to contact me if you would like to discuss this post Damian Madden, Service Manager, NHS Kirklees Talking Therapies on 07880408451 or you can email me on damian.madden@swyt.nhs.uk

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.