High Intensity Counsellor / Psychotherapist / Counselling Psychologist

Are you an Accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist or Counselling Psychologist who wants to join experienced, supportive colleagues delivering brief, relational therapies for adults in the NHS? We are looking for experienced therapists committed to brief therapy, who have or want to train in oneof the relational Talking Therapies (IAPT) modalities: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), Person Centred ExistentialCounselling for Depression, Couple Therapy for Depression or Behavioural Couples Therapy. We offer opportunities to train and run short therapy groups or work in a specialist area in our service, in our perinatal, long term conditions, young adult and older adult provisions and in management development, according to your skills and interests.

Applicants should be a fully Accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist or Counselling Psychologist, on the Accredited register of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). This covers Accredited Counsellors / Counselling Psychologists registered with the UKCP, BPC, HCPC or an equivalent professional bodies and/or Accredited with the BACP. Please ensure your application provides correct details of your registration to confirm Accreditation by search of number and not name, on the PSA or BACP 'Find an Accredited Therapist', in order to be shortlisted.

For appointment to band 7, candidates should have extensive experience of delivering brief therapy to adults, preferably in an NHS IAPT service, over the past two years, and be qualified in an IAPT modality and/or have supervisor training.

We are an innovative and progressive service delivered for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Service hours are between 8am and 6pm and clinicians are expected to provide some later working hours within their week. Our primary hub is at Beaufort House in central Uxbridge.We encourage applicants who may not have worked in the NHS but would like to do so.

We also hope to attract therapists with supervisor training and experience who have a substantial supervision qualification or are qualified supervisors for one of the modalities. Additional support and training will be provided for clinicians to gain supervision experience and qualification within the Talking Therapies framework and commissioned funding.

Posts are offered part- or full-time, with a minimum of 3 days (22.5hrs) per week, one day of which should be a Tuesday. Clinicians are currently working a blend of telephone, video and face to face sessions, dependent on patient need and with a balance of office- and home-based working.

You will join a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians, with opportunities to work in innovative areas of the service including our perinatal and post-Covid provisions.

You will work in a well-integrated team with qualified CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, assistant psychologists and trainee counsellors. As part of the NHS Talking Therapies (previously called IAPT) national programme, we are well led, have excellent CPD opportunities, work in additional areas such as Perinatal, Long-Term Conditions / Covid, Young Adults, provide community outreach and engagement and promote compassionate leadership and staff wellbeing.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Hillingdon Talking Therapies is committed to providing choice within a range of free NHS psychotherapies that include relational approaches alongside a strong CBT provision. This commitment is reflected in the banding of the post at band 7 for psychotherapists and counsellors who meet the entry requirement to be fully Accredited (details in the Person Specification) and on completion of one of the modality practitioner trainings, which is fully funded. Accredited therapists joining our service without one of these relational therapy qualifications, will join at band 6 until qualification in the additional modality.

The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from experienced, qualified counselling supervisors, as well as benefit from support and guidance from other Hillingdon Talking Therapies Service team members and will work collaboratively with other senior staff within the overall team and we have close links with our Hillingdon Community and Mental Health Services. There are also wider links with other IAPT services within CNWL Foundation Trust and the Trust-wide clinical psychology services.