About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a psychotherapist with a passion for Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and demonstrable experience in delivery to join the Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma (PACT) Specialist Psychotherapies Service.
The role will involve working towards leadership of the MBT programme including supervision. This requires accreditation as an Anna Freud Centre Supervisor or eligibility to enter the supervisor pathway and a commitment to achieve supervisor status within 12 months of commencing the programme.
The post also includes opportunities to become involved in projects with our forensic community service and with our Dissociative Disorders service.
The base for this post is Warwick with an expectation that the appointee would also develop our presence in North Warwickshire. The post may be suitable for hybrid working between home and base(s).
Main duties of the job
Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma (PACT) Specialist Psychotherapies Service delivers MBT, DBT and psychotherapy to service users presenting with complex trauma and who may meet the criteria for personality disorders.
We strongly encourage applications from psychotherapists with an interest in research and quality improvement, and from psychotherapists interested in career progression to Consultant Grade in the future.
About us
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more staff networks and support group We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the main responsibilities of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registration with the HCPC in Clinical or Counselling Psychology Psychotherapy training to master's level (or equivalent) with significant post qualifying experience Formal training in group analysis, or group psychotherapy. Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) Qualifying Course Core Training (Medicine, HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, RMN, Social Work, OT, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy) or demonstrable experience of delivering treatment within statutory services Accredited AFC Mentalization Based Treatment Supervisor or commitment to achieve accreditation. Accredited AFC Mentalization Based Treatment Practitioner. Completed AFC MBT Basic and Practitioner Training. Extensive and Current experience with Treatment of P.D.
Experience Essential
Significant experience in the assessment and treatment of personality disorders. Experience of supervision of Psychotherapists Experience of Research & Development Experience of personal therapy or personal development work and the ability to reflect on practice/ interventions
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Proven Management skills including delegation, management of change, supervision and managing resources Experience of providing clinical Supervision Ability to clinically lead and motivate a team of diverse professionals Ability to work under own initiative and to work under pressure Excellent clinical assessment skills of complex clinical presentations requiring sensitivity to unconscious processes Ability to identify psychodynamic and diagnostic formulations where expert opinions may differ. Significant experience of working with people with personality disorder. Previous experience of group psychotherapy interventions Expertise in assessing and treating patients with personality disorder.
Other Essential
Requirement to travel throughout the area covered by the Trust's services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address The Pines
St Michael's Road, Warwick
Warwick
CV34 5QW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)