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Service: Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies, East London Foundation Trust, NHS

Location: We have both fully remote and in person positions available at 71, Johnson Street, London E1 0AQ

‘PLEASE CLEARLY MARK ON YOUR APPLICATION, IN CAPITALS, WHETHER YOU ARE APPLYING FOR A REMOTE OR IN PERSON PLACEMENT: applications that do not make this clear will not be considered.’

Speciality: Primary Care Adult Mental health

Modality: Integrative

Client work: Brief one-to-one work 6 - 8 sessions

Case Load: 4 patients per week - evenings available [to 7pm]

Supervision: 1 hour per 8 clinical hours, group supervision with a BACP accredited supervisor

Experience: Minimum of 50+ hours supervised counselling experience

Insurance: Insurance is provided by the Service

Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies is one of the leading national IAPT services and offers a range of evidence-based therapies across low and high intensity streams including Brief Psychodynamic, Integrative, CBT, Eating Disorders, Long Term Health Conditions (LTC), Group therapies and psycho-education workshops.

We are looking for trainee counsellors interested in gaining experience working with adults presenting with mild to moderate common mental health problems. Tower Hamlets is a diverse borough and this is therefore an opportunity to learn to work adaptively and flexibly whilst taking into account societal and cultural factors contributing to the development and maintenance of distress.

Main duties of the job

Your placement would be within the Relational Stream which includes various modalities such as Counselling, Brief Psychodynamic Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Group Therapy.

Furthermore, this placement offers the opportunity to engage in a supervisory relationship with a BACP Accredited Counsellor. We aim to embrace and cultivate counselling as a profession and its values and identity and encourage each Counsellor in training to explore and develop their own identity as practitioners.

As a Counsellor on placement with us, you will be assessing, formulating and working with individuals presenting with mainly mild to moderate mood and anxiety and depression. You will offer time-limited individual therapy. In addition, you may offer Group therapy which is co-facilitated with a qualified Counsellor. You will have the opportunity to liaise with GPs, local Community Mental Health Teams and other secondary care psychology services as part of your role.

Working for our organisation

Regular meetings are usually held on Thursdays at 11am which are optional to attend. Meetings provide additional opportunities for involvement with audits, service development, case presentations, attending team-wide and specialism meetings and a 1 hour monthly CPD meeting.

Any further questions can be directed to Wendy Fielding, Relational Lead | Psychodynamic Psychotherapist: [email protected] or [email protected] to contact a Resourcing Officer regarding your online application.