Band 5
FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH NHS
Opportunity for professional growth, The role allows for skill development through supervision from experienced clinicians and the chance to participate in a postgraduate qualification in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Diverse work environment, As part of a broad team that includes various mental health professionals, you can learn from different perspectives and approaches to psychological therapy.
Practical experience, The position offers hands-on experience in assessing and treating secondary care mental health patients, which is invaluable for future career prospects.
Contribution to community health, The role includes collaboration with both internal MDT professionals and external third sector partners, making a real difference in the local mental health services.
Focus on complex cases, Working with complex patients provides a unique challenge and an opportunity to deepen your understanding of psychodynamic therapy.
Structured support, The job includes group and individual supervision, ensuring you receive guidance and support throughout your traineeship.
The Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a trainee psychotherapist for a part-time Assistant Psychotherapist position in Uxbridge, London, on a one-year fixed-term contract. The role, rated at band 5, requires experience in secondary care mental health and involves assessing and treating patients both face-to-face and online. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team, receive supervision from experienced clinicians, and contribute to psychoeducational programs while engaging with complex cases. They will also participate in clinical meetings and liaise with community mental health partners.
Applicants should hold a degree and demonstrate experience in healthcare, specifically with mental health issues, including risk assessments and care planning. Strong communication skills, an understanding of psychological therapy, and familiarity with psychoanalytic theory are essential. Desirable qualifications include further postgraduate training and experience in secondary care settings. The Trust emphasises a supportive environment and encourages vaccination for safety in healthcare settings.
Applicants should hold a degree and demonstrate experience in healthcare, specifically with mental health issues, including risk assessments and care planning. Strong communication skills, an understanding of psychological therapy, and familiarity with psychoanalytic theory are essential. Desirable qualifications include further postgraduate training and experience in secondary care settings. The Trust emphasises a supportive environment and encourages vaccination for safety in healthcare settings.
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
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
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
- Experience of working with secondary care mental health service.
- Experience of working with people who are suicidal
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.
Essential criteria
- Familiarity with psychoanalytic theory
- Participation in a postgrad. Psychotherapy training course
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