Medical Psychotherapy Tutor

NHFT are currently looking to appoint a Medical Psychotherapy Tutor based at Campbell House, Northampton with work expected across multiple hospital sites within Northamptonshire.

The post is a part time post consisting of 5 sessions (2 Direct Clinical Care and 3 SPA session).

The Medical Psychotherapy Tutor will be responsible for the organisation and educational governance of psychotherapy training in NHFT.

The Medical Psychotherapy Tutor will establish and support excellent communication links to doctors in training to promote a shared vision of the Trusts Commitment to remaining a high quality clinical education provider

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Ensure that all core trainees have the opportunity to complete the psychotherapy requirements of the core curriculum.

Advise and support core and higher trainees in their learning by reviewing progress in psychotherapy.

Oversee the establishment and running of the core trainee Balint or case based discussion group(s.)

Provide and oversee psychotherapy assessments for patients and be responsible for ensuring sufficient cases are provided and assessed as suitable cases for core and higher trainees.

Oversees the waiting list of therapy cases for core trainees and higher trainees.

Monitor the selection of appropriate short and long therapy cases in accordance with the core curriculum.

Select and support appropriate psychotherapy case supervisors to supervise and assess the trainees.

Ensure the psychotherapy case supervisors are aware of the aims of psychotherapy training in psychiatry and are in active practice of the model

of therapy they supervise according to GMC requirements.

Ensure the psychotherapy case supervisors are trained in the Psychotherapy Workplace Based Assessments (WPBAs).

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.