Job summary
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has exciting opportunities for psychotherapist’s committed to providing the best care and treatment for our service users. As part of Community Mental Health Transformation, we are pleased to announce several new 8a psychotherapy posts within our growing specialist Psychotherapy Service. We are a professional, relaxed and friendly team, who employ a range of therapists from Band 6 Team Therapist to Consultant Psychotherapist 8c. The service provides high quality psychodynamic and group analytic psychotherapies, and a range of other evidence-based approaches.
We are looking for psychotherapists who embody our trust values and who are thoughtful, passionate, and enthusiastically committed to working with those who have a lived experience of trauma.
There are opportunities to provide individual and group interventions including short and long-term work. We are currently developing MBT services under the supervision of an in-house Anna Freud Centre Supervisor. We are also in the process of establishing a service for Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
There are opportunities to undertake further training and to become involved with research, service evaluation and service improvement as well as to develop and build on clinical and supervision skills.
Full-time, Part time and Job Share proposals will be considered. Interviews week commencing Monday 6th March 2023.
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
About us
There are opportunities to undertake further training and to become involved with research, service evaluation and service improvement as well as to develop and build on clinical and supervision skills.
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Psychotherapy training to master’s level (or equivalent) with significant post qualifying experience.
- Core Training (Medicine, HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, RMN, Social Work, OT, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy) or demonstrable experience of delivering treatment within statutory services.
- UKCP/BACP/HCPC registration
- Formal training in group analysis, or group psychotherapy. IGA Foundation course upwards or willingness to undertake formal training if required
- Accredited Mentalization Based Treatment Practitioner or commitment to achieve accreditation.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Managerial skills to include delegation, management of change, supervision and managing resources.
- Experience of providing clinical Supervision.
- Ability to work under own initiative and to work under pressure
- Excellent clinical assessment skills of complex clinical presentations requiring sensitivity to unconscious processes.
- Ability to identify psychodynamic and diagnostic formulations where expert opinions may differ
- Comprehensive knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses and treatments.
- Expertise in assessing and treating patients with personality disorder
- Sound knowledge base of National Guidelines for PD and understanding of the wider political and strategic issues relating to clients with personality disorder.
- Mental Health Act 1983 and Code of Practice.
- Professional Code of Practice
- Health & Safety at Work.
- Equal Opportunities
- Clinical Governance
Experience
Essential
- Experience of assessing for and delivering individual and/or group psychotherapy.
- Significant experience in the assessment and treatment of personality disorders.
- Experience of supervision of more junior staff.
- Experience of Research & Development
- Experience of personal therapy or personal development work and the ability to reflect on practice/ interventions
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including keyboard skills, to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good presentation skills
Other
Essential
- Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Psychotherapy training to master’s level (or equivalent) with significant post qualifying experience.
- Core Training (Medicine, HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, RMN, Social Work, OT, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy) or demonstrable experience of delivering treatment within statutory services.
- UKCP/BACP/HCPC registration
- Formal training in group analysis, or group psychotherapy. IGA Foundation course upwards or willingness to undertake formal training if required
- Accredited Mentalization Based Treatment Practitioner or commitment to achieve accreditation.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Managerial skills to include delegation, management of change, supervision and managing resources.
- Experience of providing clinical Supervision.
- Ability to work under own initiative and to work under pressure
- Excellent clinical assessment skills of complex clinical presentations requiring sensitivity to unconscious processes.
- Ability to identify psychodynamic and diagnostic formulations where expert opinions may differ
- Comprehensive knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses and treatments.
- Expertise in assessing and treating patients with personality disorder
- Sound knowledge base of National Guidelines for PD and understanding of the wider political and strategic issues relating to clients with personality disorder.
- Mental Health Act 1983 and Code of Practice.
- Professional Code of Practice
- Health & Safety at Work.
- Equal Opportunities
- Clinical Governance
Experience
Essential
- Experience of assessing for and delivering individual and/or group psychotherapy.
- Significant experience in the assessment and treatment of personality disorders.
- Experience of supervision of more junior staff.
- Experience of Research & Development
- Experience of personal therapy or personal development work and the ability to reflect on practice/ interventions
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including keyboard skills, to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good presentation skills
Other
Essential
- Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
