Adult Psychotherapist/Psychotherapy Practitioner

Job Overview

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

Band 7 - Adult Psychotherapist/Psychotherapy Practitioner

This post offers an opportunity for people who have an intermediate level of training in dynamic psychotherapy and either a core profession or equivalent NHS mental health experience to work in an established NHS psychotherapy service. The service is based at Gwendolen house in Leicester and is dedicated to the provision of mainly once weekly individual and group psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The post-holder may be supported to undertake a qualifying training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The role involves carrying a clinical caseload under supervision and being both part of the dynamic psychotherapy service and linked to a local community team. The service has strong links with other psychological therapy services as well as with dynamic psychotherapy services in Derby and Nottingham.

To meet the demands of this post, an intermediate level of training in dynamic psychotherapy, and experience of working as a psychotherapist is needed, as well as qualification in one of the core mental health professions, or equivalent mental health experience.

We Also Offer

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Staff Support Networks

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications

Base Location: Gwendolen House, Gwendolen road, Leicester, LE5 9QF

Please contact for more details to: Caroline Philips (Sign in to view email)

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

• To demonstrate the Trust’s values in everything you do in the work environment and live up the LPT Pledge
• To be responsible in the use and expenditure of the Trust’s resources that you utilise
• Delivery of Effective Healthcare within the organisation

3.1 Be responsible for the management and treatment, by psychotherapy, of patients with severe and complex problems, and manage difficult emotional situations with sensitivity, skill and understanding. These patients will include those with severe and intractable difficulties including patients with personality disorders.

3.2 Manage, under supervision, the organisation of a complex clinical caseload (including arranging weekly consultations and a diary) in line with targets agreed with the Consultant Adult Psychotherapist.

3.3 Following the appropriate induction and training undertake specialised risk assessments and risk management with individual patients in line with the principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy and provide advice on aspects of risk to other clinicians and services, as necessary and based on psychoanalytic understanding.

4 Following the appropriate induction and training undertake specialist assessments of referrals for psychodynamic psychotherapy, under regular supervision, based upon knowledge, understanding, and the integration of psychoanalytic concepts and evidence-based practice, and awareness of the range of treatments available.

Please refer to the JD for more information.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.