Specialist Counsellor

Whittington Maternity Voices Partnership; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington Health is seeking Specialist Counsellors and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join the Talking Therapies service in Haringey. The role focuses on assessment, high intensity psychological interventions, and CBT for adults with anxiety and depression.

You will work in a hybrid setup with supervision, CPD opportunities, and potential leadership for trainee counsellors. Training in IPT/DIT/EMDR or CBT for LTCCs may be available.

Qualifications

• You will be providing assessment and high intensity psychological interventions.
• As a CBT therapist/Psychologist, you will work with adults with a range of anxiety and depression disorders using CBT.
• Counsellors should have a core training in Counselling and have specialist training in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy/Interpersonal Therapy/Counselling for Depression or short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to provide specialist counselling for clients presenting with depression.
• Band 7 Counsellors will undertake a range of activities alongside providing high quality one-to-one specialist counselling interventions.
• You may also be providing professional/clinical supervision to, act as a professional lead for trainee counsellors.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and high intensity psychological interventions for adults with anxiety and depression.
• Deliver CBT-based therapies and supervise trainees where appropriate.
• Lead in specialist counselling areas and support professional supervision within the team.

Skills

CBT therapy

Supervision experience

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

Job description

Are you passionate about providing evidenced based psychological therapy to people struggling with a range of psychological difficulties including anxiety and depression, that is flexible and personalised to the service user? Do you want to develop personally and professionally, through regular high-quality individual supervision, and a range of team activities and ongoing CPD opportunities including specialist therapy trainings as available (e.g., IPT, DIT, EMDR, training in CBT for Long Term Conditions)?

This role is within the Haringey’s Talking Therapies service offering high quality therapies, in an environment that is supportive for staff. We subscribe to the BABCP Positive Practice guide.

We are committed to staff development and specialist areas of clinical expertise through supervision, training and research opportunities, and reflective spaces.

We have a diverse workforce, so we particularly welcome staff members who can speak and work in languages that reflect the diverse communities in Haringey.

We are mindful that working in a fast-paced service with people experiencing psychological distress can be challenging and we proactively support all our staff. We encourage flexible working and staff are encouraged to negotiate a working pattern that allows for a good work life balance.

This is a hybrid role (office/home working). Staff are required to work part of the week in any of the locations around Haringey with the opportunity to work part of the week at home.

We are looking for a Specialist Counsellors and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists with experience of working with adults with a range of mental health difficulties to join our successful, and supportive team. You will be providing assessment and high intensity psychological interventions.

As a CBT therapist/Psychologist, you will work with adults with a range of anxiety and depression disorders using CBT.

As a counsellor, qualified in a Talking Therapies approved modality to support the provision of high quality evidenced based counselling. Counsellors should have a core training in Counselling and have specialist training in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy/Interpersonal Therapy/Counselling for Depression or short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to provide specialist counselling for clients presenting with depression.

You will have training and experience of providing supervision is also required as Band 7 Counsellors will undertake a range of activities alongside providing high quality one-to-one specialist counselling interventions. You may also be providing professional/clinical supervision to, act as a professional lead for trainee counsellors.

CBT therapists will also offer (or work towards offering) supervision to trainees, and advice, consultation, and training within the service, as well as having the opportunity to contribute towards shaping and developing by taking the lead in a specific area of interest.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben Cowlin Job title: Lead counsellor/ senior clinician Email address: [e-mail]