NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is a well established, highly performing service.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as an accredited counsellor.
The post holder will provide Step 3, short term individual counselling interventions, plus one other NHS Talking Therapies counselling modality, to include either PCE-CfD, IPT, DIT or CTfD.
Applicants must be either BACP Accredited or UKCP Registered as a Psychotherapist or Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, ACC Accredited, NCS Accredited Professional Registrant or British Psychoanalytic Council Registered. Applicants must also have appropriate qualifications as detailed in the person specification.
Applicants must hold an additional NHS Talking Therapies qualification, such as IPT, DIT, PCE-CfD or CTfD.
You will also need to demonstrate extensive experience of treating patients within a time limited counselling model, as well as experience of providing triage assessments.
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is nationally recognised as a high performing Talking Therapies service, with a reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working with secondary care and voluntary services. We provide a range of NICE-compliant psychological therapies for people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and achieve excellent recovery outcomes for our patients. We have good staff retention and an amazing supportive culture. We aim to grow inclusive staff teams, where diversity is valued and the workforce reflects the communities served.
We work with a blended working model allowing for a split of home working and working on site. Interventions are offered face to face, digitally and by telephone. While NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies has bases across the whole of West Sussex, you will be based in our North locality.
Our service ethos places patients at the centre of service delivery promoting mental wellbeing. Emotional resilience is central to the team's activity.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate a flexible approach and an enhanced ability to manage risk.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
You will receive support and supervision from the Senior Psychological Therapists and will play an active role in our continued service development.
You will have access to our comprehensive professional development programme.
We provide our patients with a service between Monday - Friday 8am and 8pm, so you must be willing to work flexible hours.
The post holder will need to be willing and able to travel across the locality as required.
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This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025