Site New Horizons Town Slough Salary £64,337 - £74,415 per annum, pro rata (inc. of HCAS) Salary period Yearly Closing 01/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
This is an exceptional and exciting opportunity for an experienced psychotherapist who would be interested in gaining additional invaluable skills and experience working across mental health services in both accredited Therapeutic Community and Adult Mental Health Psychological Therapies Team.
As the successful postholder, you will be working within the Community Mental Health Team in Slough and wider Berkshire. You will be supervising and managing staff, as well as offering your expertise to a wider multidisciplinary community mental health team.
This post also offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the co-production pathway in Slough and The Royal College of Psychiatrists accredited Therapeutic Community.
This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for career development, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates, keen to progress in their careers.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a valued member of the Slough Mental Health Team, as well as the trust Psychological Therapies wider team, and you will provide a highly specialist psychological service to users presenting with severe/complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions, complex/intensive risk management plans and high levels of multiagency work.
You will initiate, lead, supervise, and contribute to the multidisciplinary teams within the locality and wider Trust services.
You will lead on the management of the Therapeutic Community and all related activities that ensure its continuous accreditation.
You will be reliable and knowledgeable, and you will have great IT skills and be familiar with various systems and software packages.
You will need access to your own car and be able to travel independently across Berkshire.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance
* 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
* Professional accreditation and registration with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).
* Significant experience working as a qualified psychotherapist, including demonstrable post qualification experience within Therapeutic Communities
* An enhanced DBS check
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Natasha Berthollier on 01753690950 or email: natasha.berthollier@berkshire.nhs.uk who will be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Recognised master's level qualification in psychodynamic psychotherapy or equivalent.
* Registered and accredited with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).
* Additional accreditations (or working towards these) to reflect to post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BPS).
* Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision.
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of substantial post-doctoral training, experience and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches with an evidence base within the area of specialism. OR
* Evidence of post qualification or specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological/psychotherapy practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post and clinical supervision.
* Clinical supervision training for psychological therapy trainees and qualified staff or a nationally recognised psychotherapy training (UKCP – PP section or BPC) with supervision training for psychotherapy trainees on placement.
Experience
* Significant experience working as a qualified psychotherapist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the related specialisms.
* Experience of Therapeutic Communities accredited by The Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* Significant experience of working in evidence-based ways with service users (and their carers/ families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances, such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics.
* Experience of teaching and professional/clinical supervision, as well as experience of developing and leading the delivery of training programmes and supervision.
* Experience of service evaluation and implementing change from a national and local health or social care change agenda that impacts across services and professions.
* Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism and equality of access to services.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
* Detailed and advanced knowledge of a range of evidence-based assessments and therapeutic interventions within designated clinical area.
* Exceptional interpersonal and highly effective communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development, and improvement.
* Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office/Teams, and the internet).
Additional requirements
* Demonstrates the ability to respond to people’s needs sensitively, particularly with reference to all aspects of diversity.
* Able to work flexibly as required and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.
Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.
Once you have applied, please check your email regularly for updates. All appointments are subject to NHS Employment Checks, and false information may result in withdrawal of offers. For information on how we store your information, please review our privacy statement.
No agencies, please.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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