Post: Community Psychotherapist
Location: Lilias Gillies House, London
Salary: £46 824 (part-time of 4 days per week/36 hours pro-rata considered)
Reports to: Head of Psychotherapy
We are seeking to recruit a Psychotherapist for our residential therapeutic community in London. This is an exciting time to join us as we seek to expand our psychotherapy provision within the service. We are looking for a fully qualified clinician who can work with adults experiencing high levels of distress, often in highly charged situations, while maintaining the ability to think and support those around them. In return, you’ll receive a warm and friendly welcome into an organisation where your aptitude for formulation, reflection, and creativity can be utilised to their full potential. Your skills will be highly regarded, and you will be offered excellent continuous professional development opportunities.
About us:
We are a dynamic and creative organisation. We work with adults experiencing severe emotional distress, many of whom have diagnoses of psychosis or personality disorder, and often with drug and/or alcohol dependency. Our model is based on housing, community, and psychotherapy, and influenced by Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE’s), Therapeutic Communities, recovery, and neuro-psychodynamic theory. The Community Psychotherapist/Psychologist is the clinical lead for the service, and will work alongside the Service Manager to develop, maintain and lead a psychologically informed environment to the highest clinical standards. This is a busy, varied, and ultimately rewarding position. Some of the daily activities as Community Psychotherapist include (but are not limited to);
* facilitating formal reflective practice groups
* providing one-to-one psychodynamic psychotherapy sessions for residents
* facilitating case formulation meetings with staff and residents
* ensuring clinical practice is centred on a formulation-based approach and in line with the CHT model
* offering advice and consultation to staff members
* ensuring clinical outcomes measures are collated
* assessing potential new residents into the community
About you:
We are looking for a fully qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist/Integrative Psychotherapist with a strong emphasis on psychodynamic thinking, or a Clinical Psychologist with additional psychodynamic or psychoanalytic training. As a Psychotherapist, you will hold registration with either the UKCP, HCPC or the BPC or be accredited by the BACP. As a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, you will hold BPS chartered status.
Working as the Community Psychotherapist, you will be accustomed to working with high levels of distress. You do not necessarily need to have experience of working in a residential setting, but you do need to be a reflective, thoughtful and resilient clinician, who is able to adapt from one task to another, and at times adjust to quickly changing priorities. Ideally, we are looking for a full-time psychotherapist/psychologist to join us, but part-time working of four days a week will be considered for the right candidate. If you think this role may be for you, then please refer to the job description and person specification for more information.
For informal enquires about this position, please contact Andreas Constandinos, Head of Psychotherapy by e-mail at: andreas.c@cht.org.uk
For further information about this vacancy, and details of how to apply, please visit our website www.cht.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us
How to apply:
Please send a copy of your CV, together with a covering letter by e-mail to: andreas.c@cht.org.uk stating why you are applying for the position, and how you meet the person specification.
Closing date: 9th May 2025, although we reserve the right to close the advertisement early should we receive a high number of applications