We are pleased to be recruiting to a 7 Psychodynamic Psychotherapist post (0.6 wte) to join the psychodynamic modality of our multi-modality therapy team in secondary care. The post holder will be clinician practicing individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults with moderate-severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders. The post holder will ideally have experience of NHS secondary care adult mental health work.
The successful applicant will hold a caseload of psychodynamic psychotherapy cases, delivering assessment and individual psychodynamic psychotherapy. The post holder will work as part of the therapies team as well as providing link in work to an identified Neighbourhood multi-disciplinary team providing consultation to other professionals in their work.
The successful applicant will work alongside other Psychodynamic psychotherapists delivering assessment and therapy. They will also work alongside psychotherapists offering Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists offering CBT, tf-CBT, Schema informed therapy and EMDR, as part of this well-established multi-modality team. The post holder may supervise psychodynamic honoraries. The team is based in central Croydon (Jeanette Wallace House) and face-to-face sessions are provided at this base and at other Croydon sites. Wednesdays are an essential team day.
To provide specialist psychological interventions, specifically individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to adults in secondary care with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical psychodynamic supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
- To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
