Psychotherapeutic Counselling Trainee

Job description

Job responsibilities

These posts are recruit to train positions and so ALL candidates will need to apply for BOTH. You will need to complete an application for the trainee role with an eligible NHS Talking Therapies service FIRST and THEN apply to the PCE-CfD NHS Psychotherapeutic Counselling programme at Metanoia Institute through the Metanoia website link stating your unique Oleeo application number.

Please refer to the attached JD and all the separate attachments in relation to the training programme and timetable.

During their training, trainees are employed by a Talking Therapies service and will be expected to carry out an average of two to three days per week of clinical practice alongside their Metanoia Institute training, once signed off by the Institute as ready to begin practice. The first term of year one of the course will mostly require attendance in person at Metanoia Institute 3-4 days per week in order to support the development of sufficient competence in counselling skills to be signed off to begin practice back at the host service.

During the Foundation level training (first year), following sign off as meeting a Foundation standard of competence in simulation, trainees will work with people with mild to moderate depression in the host service.

Throughout the training programme, trainees must undertake a minimum of 90 minutes of training supervision to every six hours of client work (or the equivalent for group supervision). Supervision must be provided by training providers weekly and may be provided individually or in small groups of up to 3 trainees. The minimum supervision that trainees should receive is 90 minutes per week of training supervision, even if they have completed less than six hours of client work in the week.

Each trainee's service will be responsible for providing PCE-CfD supervision on site, including oversight of case management, clinical governance and management supervision in line with the supervision requirements of the IAPT Manual.

Metanoia Institute will liaise with each service to monitor the supervision that trainees receive and the PCE-CfD training and experience of their supervisors in the services where they are placed.

On qualification, trainees will be required to meet the requirements for individual PCE-CfD registration as set out in the IAPT Manual.

Trainees will be required to complete a minimum of 50 hours of personal therapy over the three years, commencing in Year 1 prior to starting work with service users. Therapy undertaken prior to the commencement of training may not be counted towards this requirement. Personal therapy must be in the theoretical orientation of the training

This training aims to:

a.Develop high intensity psychotherapeutic counsellors with the qualities, skills and competences to develop, engage in and sustain strong therapeutic relationships and work effectively with NHS TT service users with depression, and their families where appropriate.

b.Develop core psychotherapeutic counselling practitioner competency, including integration of practical competency in PCE-CfD, in line with the needs of service users, families and carers.

c.Ensure clinical practice in accordance with local and national IAPT Service policy, including working to create inclusive and effective services for all.

d.Promote personal and professional development and self-awareness essential to successful psychotherapeutic counselling.

Following sign off as meeting a foundation standard of competence through simulation, trainees will assess and support service users with mild to moderate depression in NHS Somerset services in the self-management of their recovery using either a humanistic/ person-centred or psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counselling approach, under close supervision within an NHS TTad stepped care setting and in line with the NHS TTad Manual.

Undertakes patient-centred interviews which identifies areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.

Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service's referral protocols, refers unsuitable clients on to the relevant part of the service or back to the referral agent as necessary or steps-down the person's treatment to low intensity intervention.

Following assessment, identify and negotiate the focus and contract for time limited counselling as per service contract and protocols.

Deliver time limited counselling interventions in accordance with the NHS TTad Manual, the evidence base, and service protocols. This work may be in person, via video consultation or telephone.

Adhere to an agreed level of activity relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.

Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service utilising electronic record and data collection systems as required.

Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making.

Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach within the NHS TTad Service.

Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.

To agree confidentiality boundaries with patients (working within professional codes of ethics and those of the employer).

To undertake risk assessments and take the appropriate action (possibly breaching patient confidentiality in the interests of the client or as dictated by legislation and service policy).

To have a caseload of individual clients with sessions offered in person, via video consultation or telephone.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised degree at 2:2 or above in any relevant subject, or equivalent, or Demonstrates competency via a portfolio of evidence, which meets specified academic equivalence requirements.
• Completed a Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills, (minimum of 10 days or 60 hours of face-to-face tuition at level 2 or level 3). Note: Online courses are not acceptable. L2 Award, Helping Skills and Introductory courses are not acceptable

Experience

Essential

• Show a commitment to working with people with common mental health problems
• Evidence of working with people who have experienced a common mental health problem.
• Previous clinical or professional expertise in mental health
• Worked in a setting where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills and values consistent with providing hopeful, person-centred care within the NHS Somerset stepped model of care
• Evidence of working within a team environment
• Evidence of communicating with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Ability to be self-critical and use both positive and negative feedback
• Awareness of and ability to explore issues of difference and equality and the nature of prejudice and oppression
• Ability to recognise the need for personal and professional support and self-care
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships and maintain professional boundaries

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Potential trainees will be assessed for the following attributes or the potential for developing them:
• Warmth, kindness, compassion, empathy
• Authenticity, self-awareness, maturity and stability
• Ability to listen, be present and attentive
• Ability to come alongside people experiencing emotional and psychological distress
• Capacity for reflexivity
• Ability to be vulnerable and make use of and reflect upon own life experience
• Capacity to cope with the emotional demands of the course
• Ability to cope with the intellectual and academic requirement
• Ability to be self-critical and use both positive and negative feedback
• Awareness of and ability to explore issues of difference and equality and the nature of prejudice and oppression
• Ability to recognise the need for personal and professional support and self-care

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracken House

Crewkerne Road

Chard

Somerset

TA20 1YA

Employer's website

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