Psychotherapist

JR United Kingdom; Coulsdon; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Psychotherapist to join their dynamic team in London. This role offers the chance to work with adults facing severe emotional distress, providing one-on-one psychodynamic therapy and facilitating reflective practice groups. The organization values creativity and reflection, offering excellent professional development opportunities. Join a supportive community where your skills will be recognized and utilized to their fullest potential, making a real difference in the lives of those in need. If you are a qualified clinician ready to embrace a rewarding challenge, this position could be your next step.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist or Clinical Psychologist.
• Experience with high levels of distress and reflective practice.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating psychodynamic psychotherapy sessions for residents.
• Leading reflective practice groups and case formulation meetings.
• Consulting with staff on clinical practices.

Skills

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy

Clinical Psychology

Reflective Practice

Case Formulation

Education

Registration with UKCP, HCPC, or BPC

BPS Chartered Status (for Psychologists)

Job description

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Salary: £46,824 (part-time of 4 days per week/36 hours pro-rata considered)

Reports to: Head of Psychotherapy

We are seeking to recruit a Psychotherapist for our residential therapeutic community in London. This is an exciting time to join us as we seek to expand our psychotherapy provision within the service. We are looking for a fully qualified clinician who can work with adults experiencing high levels of distress, often in highly charged situations, while maintaining the ability to think and support those around them. In return, you’ll receive a warm and friendly welcome into an organisation where your aptitude for formulation, reflection, and creativity can be utilised to their full potential. Your skills will be highly regarded, and you will be offered excellent continuous professional development opportunities.

About us:

We are a dynamic and creative organisation working with adults experiencing severe emotional distress, many of whom have diagnoses of psychosis or personality disorder, and often with drug and/or alcohol dependency. Our model is based on housing, community, and psychotherapy, influenced by Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), Therapeutic Communities, recovery, and neuro-psychodynamic theory. The Community Psychotherapist/Psychologist is the clinical lead for the service, working alongside the Service Manager to develop, maintain, and lead a psychologically informed environment to the highest clinical standards. This is a busy, varied, and ultimately rewarding position. Some of the daily activities include:

• Facilitating formal reflective practice groups
• Providing one-to-one psychodynamic psychotherapy sessions for residents
• Facilitating case formulation meetings with staff and residents
• Ensuring clinical practice is centered on a formulation-based approach and aligned with the CHT model
• Offering advice and consultation to staff members
• Ensuring clinical outcomes measures are collated
• Assessing potential new residents into the community

About you:

We are looking for a fully qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist/Integrative Psychotherapist with a strong emphasis on psychodynamic thinking, or a Clinical Psychologist with additional psychodynamic or psychoanalytic training. You will hold registration with UKCP, HCPC, or BPC, or be accredited by BACP. Alternatively, as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, you will hold BPS chartered status.

As the Community Psychotherapist, you should be accustomed to working with high levels of distress. Experience in a residential setting is not mandatory, but you must be a reflective, thoughtful, and resilient clinician, capable of adapting to changing priorities. Ideally, we prefer a full-time psychotherapist/psychologist, but part-time (four days a week) will be considered for the right candidate. If interested, please refer to the job description and person specification for more details.

For informal inquiries, please contact Andreas Constandinos, Head of Psychotherapy, via email at: [emailprotected]

For further information and application details, visit our website: www.cht.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us

How to apply:

Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are applying and how you meet the person specification to: [emailprotected]

Closing date: 9th May 2025. We reserve the right to close the advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications.