Job overview
Applicants must be fully accredited and 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 provide correct details of registration to confirm Accreditation by search of number and not name, on the PSA or BACP 'Find an Accredited Therapist', for shortlisting.
Are you an accredited, experienced counsellor or psychotherapist, looking to work with committed and friendly colleagues in the NHS at Hillingdon Talking Therapies? The entry requirement is for accreditation and a further role requirement is to undertake a further post-qualifying Talking Therapies modality training to become a qualified practitioner in either Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Person-Centred Counselling for Depression or Couple Therapy for Depression.
Applications are welcome from both qualified modality practitioners or those requiring this additional training which is fully funded, subject to availability for course capacity allocated to each service.
Main duties of the job
Our counselling service works to a brief model, offering between 8 and 10 sessions of generic counselling or around 16 sessions for therapy within one of the specialist relational modalities. Clinicians offer 5 sessions within each working day of 7.5 hours, with adjustments to accommodate service meetings, paid CPD and training and generous paid holiday leave. Our post-holders work between 3 days (22.5hrs) and 5 days (37.5hrs) a week, one day of which must be a Tuesday. Individual supervision is provided fortnightly with additional supervision for modality clinical work.
Staff currently work to a mix of home- and site-working in order to meet the demand for face to face work and for team cohesion and wellbeing.
Clinicians currently offer either video or face to face sessions, dependent on patient choice and clinical need. 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. There is no on-site parking. CNWL offers flexible working to meet staff wellbeing for a health work-life balance.
You will join a friendly, highly experienced and diverse team of clinicians and have opportunities to work in innovative areas of the service including our perinatal and Long Term Conditions provisions.
Working for our organisation
The Hillingdon Talking Therapies Service is an innovative and progressive Talking Therapies service provided by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. We work in close partnership with our local GP Confederation within North West London, with other mental health services, with CNWL Community physical healthcare teams and with voluntary sector and other specialist services delivering primary care support and treatment, including the primary care eating disorders team STRIDES, services for Young Adults, outreach initiatives supporting those suffering healthcare and economic inequalities and building relationships with community connectors.
We are a supportive, friendly and experience group of clinicians with core training in psychodynamic or integrative counselling models, working within a busy and creative service.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Accredited Counsellors without modality training enter preceptorship positions at band 6 including outer London weighting, to undertake funded training for a further year in one of the relational modality trainings with advancement to band 7. Those qualified as practitioners in a Talking Therapies modality join at band 7 with outer London weighting.
Vaccination
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.
1. Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
2. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the
3. Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.