Assistant Psychotherapist in London inLondon PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

Job Overview

We are looking for an trainee psychotherapist with secondary care mental health experience to work in our small enthusiastic and serious psychological therapy service based in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, to fill our one year fixed term half time Assistant Psychotherapist role at band 5.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

The post involves seeing secondary care mental health patients for assessment and treatment face to face and online.

You will receive supervision in groups and individually from experienced clinicians in the service.

It involves liaising with psychological therapy and community mental hub colleagues from the MDT, as well as third sector partners in the Borough.

You should be interested in offering focussed psychodynamic work to complex patients, contributing to our psychoeducational step 2 programme in the Hubs, as well as seeing a few longer term cases.

Working for our organisation

We are a broad church of psychological therapists, clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, mental health well being practitioners and psychotherapists. The service is busy and well respected within our MDT .

We offer a range of interventions within a mutually respectful service.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post involves seeing secondary care mental health patients for assessment and treatment face to face and online.

You will receive supervision from experienced clinicians in the service.

It involves liaising with psychological therapy and community mental hub colleagues from the MDT, as well as third sector partners in the Borough.

We meet weekly for clinical meetings. You will attend MDT referral meetings and contribute across the board to our work.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A Degree Eligibility to apply for a postgraduate qualification in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working in a healthcare setting
• Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities as an honorary psychotherapist or psychologist
• Experience of using psychological assessments, formulations, risk assessments and care planning
• Experience of working with people who have to potential to become aggressive and being able to respond appropriately
• Experience of MDT working and the voluntary sector
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with secondary care mental health service.
• Experience of working with people who are suicidal
  
  

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• An understanding of complex needs of a person with a diagnosis of Personality Disorders/mental illness/learning disability
• An understanding of psychological therapy applied to healthcare
• Has training and experience of audit, evaluation and research
• Advanced keyboard skills.
  
  

Knowledge/ Understanding

Essential criteria

• Familiarity with psychoanalytic theory
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Participation in a postgrad. Psychotherapy training course