Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Adult Psychotherapist -part time

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Job summary

We are looking for applicants who are interested in taking up a 0.6 w.t.e Band 7 adult psychotherapy (BCP/UKCP/CPJAC) post in our friendly and welcoming Psychotherapy Service based at Redhill.

You will be expected to have experience working with people who have severe and enduring mental health presentations and in offering assessment as well as individual and group psychotherapy. Experience in delivering MBT is desirable but for those candidates with no training in this modality training is available as part of career development.

Alongside MBT we offer excellent opportunities for you to develop your skills clinically and offer opportunities to train in CAT and TFP and to actively participate in audit and research.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.

Please contact Sara Daniels on 01372 203456 who can arrange a discussion/meeting with Dr Sean Fernandez about the position.

We positively welcome visits to the service and encourage you to meet with the teams.

Interviews to be on Wednesday 20th March at Unither House, Chertsey.

Main duties of the job

To undertake psychotherapeutic consultations and provide individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.

To conduct both group analytic and mentalization based treatments following appropriate training and with ongoing supervision.

Please check the job description for more information on the requirements for this role.

Must be available to attend face to face team meetings on Monday afternoon at 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead KT22 7AD but will be based at Gatton Place, St Matthews Way, Redhill RH1 1TA for two days a week.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

09 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£45,753 to £52,067 a year PA with HACs, pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-5823157-COMM

Job locations

Gatton Place

St Matthews Way

Redhill

RH1 1TA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and profile document for more information on the requirements for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and profile document for more information on the requirements for this role.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

UKCP accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Experience

Essential

In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory and experience of providing group analytic psychotherapy, experience of mentalization based treatment is not mandatory but desirable and training in modality can be arranged as part of career development.
In depth knowledge and experience of conducting psychotherapy consultations for individual and group analytic therapy.

Desirable

Experience of delivering consultations and therapy remotely

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

UKCP accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Experience

Essential

In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory and experience of providing group analytic psychotherapy, experience of mentalization based treatment is not mandatory but desirable and training in modality can be arranged as part of career development.
In depth knowledge and experience of conducting psychotherapy consultations for individual and group analytic therapy.

Desirable

Experience of delivering consultations and therapy remotely

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.