Health in Mind is an IAPT service providing evidence-based treatments for people with depression and/or a range of anxiety-based difficulties within primary care. Please see our website for further information on Health in Mind.
We are seeking to recruit a senior clinician to provide leadership to the counsellors in the service. This is a part-time post (22.5 hrs a week). You must be a registered counselling/clinical psychologist or counsellor/psychological therapist with the equivalent level of experience. All applicants must have an NHS Talking Therapy modality training such as CFD, DIT, IPT, EMDR, or CTFD. The role is to support and develop counselling practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training/education.
Main duties of the job
* To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the counselling team/service and other professionals working with service users.
* To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
About us
The client's experience of our service is very important to us. We work towards supporting clients in their recovery by offering evidence-based therapy with therapists who receive regular and supportive supervision and regular CPD. We promote service user involvement. Health in Mind has a Service User Steering Group which provides valuable input to our service design and delivery. We care about our staff. We have a staff-wellbeing-champions team, and are committed to staff engagement. We know that for our clinicians to do a good job they need to feel supported. There is opportunity for varied and flexible working patterns in addition to working from home for some of your time. We are keen for our clinicians to grow. We aim to offer staff individual appraisals with the opportunity to become involved in a range of activities, such as group-based interventions, teaching, supervision and service development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing line management and clinical supervision to psychotherapeutic counsellors within the team. The role will also play a pivotal part in service development, governance of the team as well as supporting the team's wellbeing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Recognised accredited post-graduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the Appendix.
* Professionally registered as specified in the appendix.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
* Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy/counselling for groups and individuals (assessment, formulation and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* A high level of competence in applying psychological therapy models with groups, and with individuals with complex difficulties within the clinical context served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy/approach.
* Experience of offering, teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
* A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision.
* Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
* Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
* Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
* A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
* Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix.
* Experience of conducting formal research, audit or service evaluation in a healthcare setting.
Employer details
Employer name: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Woodside, The Drive, Hellingly, BN27 4ER
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