Adult Psychotherapist- part time

The role primarily involves working with individuals with severe mental health issues using psychodynamic psychotherapy.

To provide individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

To provide Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) as part of the outpatient MBT programme

To undertake high quality psychotherapeutic consultations/ assessments for people referred to the Psychotherapy Service.

To work alongside patients, carers, referrers and professionals to provide safe, effective, and accessible psychotherapeutic treatment.

To supervise trainees and honorary therapists attached to the service.

Our friendly and welcoming psychotherapy service is based at Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford and the team has its own clinical space to conduct our therapeutic work. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience working with severe, enduring, and complex mental health presentations and/or those with a core professional training. The post holder will have significant experience working as a psychotherapist in the NHS, assessing and treating complex secondary care patients and offering consultation and supervision to more junior colleagues or colleagues from other teams.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.