Consultant Adult Psychotherapist and Service Lead

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!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead our Dynamic Psychotherapy Service across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The service forms part of a wider collaborative network of psychology and psychotherapy services within the Directorate of Mental Health and works in close partnership with Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams through a hub-and-spoke model.

This senior post provides clinical, professional, operational and strategic leadership, alongside a senior clinical role, with opportunities to shape specialist psychotherapy provision and collaborative working.

Applicants must have a core professional qualification and recognised specialist qualification in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy, with current registration with the CPJA College of the UKCP or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), alongside extensive senior NHS experience and significant leadership and management experience.

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative leader committed to clinical excellence, workforce development with commitment to deliver an effective and productive specialist psychotherapy provision.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths. You’ll be joining an organisation with a genuine team culture built on openness, growth, and truly looking after one another.

We Also Offer

A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, rising with length 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

Various Staff Support Networks

Contact Details

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

• To provide senior clinical leadership and line management to a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.
• To work with the Directorate Lead Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies and other clinical and operational senior leaders in the Directorate of Mental Health (DMH) Step Up to Great Mental Health Service development plans to support the design, development and delivery of a high-quality, responsive and accessible psychological service in an integrated way within service delivery teams.
• To manage the delegated budget of a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.
• To be responsible for the day to day management and leadership of the staff working within a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.
• Working within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to actively facilitate psychologically informed ways of working with people requiring clinical psychology and specialist psychological therapies.
• To provide highly advanced clinical leadership and ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and governance of the clinical practice for a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.
• To facilitate training, development and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions as needed within the Trust.
• To ensure robust supervision, and clinical support is available to colleagues within DMH on matters related to the provision of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies.
• To provide clinical leadership on all matters relating to provision and practice of Adult Mental Health Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies.
• To carry a clinical caseload in a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.

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

About Us

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 including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

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.