B7 Adult Psychotherapist - part time

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Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a part-time Band 7 Adult Psychotherapist for their North-West Surrey Psychotherapy Service. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in psychotherapy and complex mental health presentations, offering a vital role in a supportive and diverse working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Free parking

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory.
• Experience in specialist assessment and treatment, individual, group and MBT psychotherapy.

Responsibilities

• Undertake psychotherapeutic consultations and provide individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.
• Liaise with professionals, carers and relatives regarding referrals.
• Maintain up-to-date risk assessments on involved patients.

Skills

Psychoanalytic therapy

Mental health

Risk assessment

Education

UKCP accreditation or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Job description

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unither House Town Chertsey Salary £48,270 - £54,931 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 23/06/2025 23:59

B7 Adult Psychotherapist - part time

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a 6 session Band 7 Adult Psychotherapist post to join our dynamic, friendly and welcoming secondary care team in the North-West Surrey Psychotherapy Service at Unither House, Chertsey which is one of three psychotherapy services in the Trust.

We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience of working with severe, enduring, and complex mental health presentations and/or those with a core professional training in mental health.

The post holder will have substantial experience working as an adult psychotherapist in a specialist psychotherapy service, or its equivalent including experience in specialist assessment and treatment, individual, group and MBT psychotherapy, and long-term work with severe and enduring presentations.

We strongly encourage applicants to visit/contact the department prior to interview.Please contact Carol Hunter on 01483 443683 who will direct your call or email [e-mail]

Interviews to be held the morning of Wednesday 16th July at Unither House, Chertsey.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Main duties of the job

To undertake psychotherapeutic consultations and provide individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.

To liaise with professionals, carers and relatives as required about referrals patients to the service.

Maintaining up to date risk assessments on patients that are directly involved in your care.

· To involve patients in their personal care plans taking their individual needs and preferences into account.

· To conduct both group analytic and mentalization based treatments following appropriate training and with ongoing supervision.

· To help advise other professionals and trainees engaged in mental health work about the role and suitability of Psychoanalytically informed interventions.

Please refer to the job description for more information on the requirements for this role.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person specification

Experience

• In depth understanding and training in the delivery of individual psychoanalytic therapy is mandatory.

Qualifications

• UKCP accreditation with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College or BPC accreditation in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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.