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Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Full time or Part Time, between 22.5 and 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 333-G-HC-1428
Site Beaufort House, Uxbridge Town Uxbridge Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/01/2025 23:59 Interview date 14/01/2025
Job overview
Due to the nature of this role, it is only open to individuals who are not already working in an NHS Talking Therapies service in England. This role is funded by NHS England, and the funding criteria require that applicants are not working within an NHS Talking Therapy Service in England at the time of application.
This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to start their career within the NHS and gain valuable skills and experience. We welcome applications from all candidates who meet the criteria and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our recruitment process.
Applicants must be on the Accredited register of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). This covers Accredited Counsellors / Counselling Psychologists registered with the UKCP, BPC, HCPC or an equivalent professional bodies and/or Accredited with the BACP. Please provide correct details of registration to confirm Accreditation by search of number and not name, on the PSA or BACP 'Find an Accredited Therapist', for shortlisting.
Hillingdon NHS Talking Therapies service is looking to attract experienced, accredited counsellors / psychotherapists who wish to work in the NHS, and have or want to train in one of the brief relational modality therapies: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression, Couple Therapy for Depression or Behavioural Couples Therapy and who may want to train further as modality supervisors.
Main duties of the job
Our counselling service works to a brief model, offering around sessions of generic counselling or around 16 sessions for therapy within one of the specialist relational modalities. Clinicians offer 5 sessions within each working day of 7.5 hours, with adjustments to accommodate service meetings, paid CPD and training and generous paid holiday leave. Our post-holders work between 3 days (22.5hrs) and 5 days (37.5hrs) a week, one day of which must be a Tuesday. Individual supervision is provided fortnightly with additional supervision for modality clinical work.
Staff currently work to a mix of home- and site-working in order to meet the demand for face-to-face work and for team cohesion and wellbeing. Clinicians currently offer a blend of telephone, video and face-to-face sessions, dependent on patient choice and clinical need. Service hours are between 8am and 6pm and clinicians are expected to provide some later working hours within their week. Our primary hub is at Beaufort House in central Uxbridge. CNWL offers flexible working to meet staff wellbeing for a healthy work-life balance.
You will join a friendly, highly experienced and diverse team of clinicians and have opportunities to work in innovative areas of the service including our perinatal and post-Covid provisions.
Working for our organisation
The Hillingdon Talking Therapies Service is an innovative and progressive Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) service working with Healthcare and Perinatal services, as part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. We work in close partnership with our local GP Confederation within North West London, with other mental health services, with CNWL Community physical healthcare teams and with voluntary sector and other specialist services delivering primary care support and treatment, including the primary care eating disorders team STRIDES, services for Young Adults, outreach initiatives supporting those suffering healthcare and economic inequalities and building relationships with community connectors.
We are a supportive, friendly and experienced group of clinicians with core training in psychodynamic or integrative counselling models, working within a busy and creative service.
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 in our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Accredited Counsellors without modality training enter preceptorship positions at band 6 including outer London weighting, to undertake funded training for a further year in one of the relational modality trainings with advancement to band 7. Those qualified as practitioners in an IAPT modality join at band 7 with outer London weighting.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* A Counselling Diploma approved by the BACP or equivalent.
* Accredited with the UKCP, BACP, BPC, HCPC or PSA equivalent professional accreditation
* Critical understanding of the relevance of studies of human development, psychopathology, psychology, social issues and evidence-based practice.
* Supervisor qualification from a substantial Counselling and/or IAPT modality supervision course, as a supervisor for Counselling, CfD, DIT, IPT, Couples Therapy, EMDR or CBT
* Additional training in specialist areas related to primary care mental health eg LTC, Perinatal, CBT principles, clinical risk assessment
* Qualified/Registered Mental Health Professional
Previous Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified counsellor with specialist post-qualification experience in the NHS, including substantial post-qualification experience within primary care.
* Experience of professional management and supervision of qualified and pre-qualified counsellors in the NHS in a primary care setting.
* Experience of working with a wide range of clients over the age of 18 years and including older adults presenting with mild to moderate degrees of severity of mental illness.
* Experience of working in the NHS or an IAPT service or other primary care setting, providing specialist expertise in the field of brief Counselling interventions.
* Experience of assessing clinical risk in the context of common mental health problems.
* Specialist experience acquired through having conducted 450 hours of supervised assessment and Counselling therapy during training.
* Specialist psychotherapeutic working experience.
* Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural and diversity contexts.
* Experience of working within a primary care/community setting
* Experience of managing an independent and specialist caseload.
* Research skills and knowledge and aptitude.
Skills and Knowledge
* Qualification as practitioner in a specialist brief model of psychotherapy a Talking Therapies modality
* Ability to work independently and manage a caseload, with freedom to act and take decisions about patient care, under supervision.
* Skills in providing professional and clinical supervision, management and training to qualified and pre-qualified counsellors.
* Experience of carrying a high patient caseload
Other
* To demonstrate emotional resilience and stability. Ability to establish and maintain working relationships under pressure
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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