Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP Registered)
An exciting and rare opportunity to contribute to a pioneering psychotherapy research project with the potential to influence homelessness services nationally.
No of Positions: 2
Location: Bridge House Mission, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 3AX
Sessional Contract
- Fixed term, until April 2029
- 47 weeks of sessions in a 52-week period
- 10 session per week
- £50 per therapy hour* (50 min sessions)
- Uplift of 3% in each April
- 2 hours of clinical supervision provided and financed
- £500 worth of annual training
- Sessions funded, even in non-attendance
- Therapy room provided
Therapists will be expected to attend project meetings and complete research evaluation activities as part of the contract.
Annual contract value: £23,500
About the Project
Bridge House Mission is a charity, that has provided supported accommodation to people experiencing homelessness and severe multiple disadvantage for 48 years. We have secured funding to establish an innovative Integrative Psychotherapy Day Service. The project recognises that unresolved trauma and developmental needs are often underlying contributors to repeat homelessness.
This project is founded on a simple but significant question: what happens when people experiencing chronic repeat homelessness are given access to long-term, relational psychotherapy?
Working in partnership with Teesside University, the project will undergo independent evaluation using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Throughout the programme we will generate robust evidence exploring the impact of long-term integrative psychotherapy on individuals experiencing homelessness and severe multiple disadvantage. The findings will culminate in a publication-ready research paper and have the potential to influence future commissioning, trauma-informed practice and national conversations about homelessness and recovery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide pre-engagement, initial assessment meetings
- Deliver 10, 50-minute individual psychotherapy sessions per week.
- Provide therapy on the same day and at the same time each week wherever possible, maintaining a consistent therapeutic frame.
- Establish safe, consistent therapeutic relationships with clients who may have experienced significant trauma.
- Work within an integrative relational model, adapting interventions to individual need.
- Maintain clear therapeutic boundaries.
- Hold clients through periods of crisis, rupture and repair where clinically appropriate.
- Maintain accurate clinical records.
- Boundaried follow-up after missed appointments
- Support planned endings whenever possible.
- Attend monthly clinical supervision, project meetings, and research evaluation activities
- Contribute to the collection of agreed outcome data.
- Work collaboratively with Bridge House staff whilst maintaining therapeutic confidentiality
Essential:
- UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist (SCoPEd Column C) with a minimum of three years' post-qualification experience, demonstrating sustained clinical practice during this period. Candidates must be able to evidence their experience through discussion of anonymised case examples at interview.
- Hold current Professional Indemnity Insurance and ICO Registration.
- Experience working with trauma, homelessness, addiction, severe multiple disadvantage, offending behaviour, dissociation, safeguarding.
- Experience working relationally over medium or long-term therapy.
- Excellent understanding of attachment theory and complex trauma.
- Ability to maintain therapeutic boundaries in complex environments.
- Commitment to anti-oppressive practice.
- Excellent written communication.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Enhanced DBS.
We would welcome therapists who are qualified in EMDR.
We are not simply looking for an excellent therapist. We are looking for someone who can tolerate uncertainty, remain emotionally robust and recognise that progress is rarely linear. Someone who values relationship above technique, remains curious rather than rescuing, and understands that engagement often begins long before formal psychotherapy starts. Above all, we are seeking a therapist who can offer consistency, hope and a reliable therapeutic relationship to people who have too often experienced abandonment and exclusion from services.
Please submit your CV together with a covering letter explaining why you are interested in this role. We are looking to understand you (your thinking and motivation) therefore your covering letter must be your own original work, written in your own voice, and not generated by AI.
* Therapists will deliver a 50-minute psychotherapy sessions. The £50 sessional fee is inclusive of reasonable time required for associated clinical administration, record keeping, research data collection and participation in agreed project meetings.
Pay: £50.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Are you a fully qualified Integrative Psychotherapist?
Experience:
- post-qualified psychotherapy: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
