Consultant Psychiatrist Medical Psychotherapy

The recruitment of an additional Consultant Medical Psychotherapist/General Adult Psychiatrist will support the expansion of the PD Case Management Team to cover the Warrington and Halton areas of the Trusts geographical footprint, following merger with the neighbouring Trust. It is in visage that the post-holder will work across all the different services described below and help with the establishment and development of the new PD Case Management service into Warrington and Halton, with the support of the Clinical Lead. This will involve establishing new links with the other inpatient and community services in this area. Duties within the Psychotherapy Service: Expert knowledge in psychological formulation and assessment, and the delivery of specialist psychological interventions. Screen referrals. Psychotherapy assessment and formulation. Psychotherapy interventions, with specialist knowledge/skills in at least two modalities of therapy, including a specialist knowledge of PD
interventions (e.g. MBT, DBT, SCM, TC, CAT, Psychodynamic Therapy). Personal case load of 4-6 cases. Provision of Psychotherapy Training to medical trainees (e.g. Balint Groups + supervision groups) and those from other disciplines (e.g. supervision). Historically, the Trust has had a Psychotherapy Service, delivering a range of both conventional psychotherapies (CBT, CAT, Family Therapy, Psychodynamic Individual and Group Therapy) and specialist interventions for PD (MBT, DBT, Day Therapeutic Community, CFT). There are 7 whole time equivalent psychotherapist working in the psychotherapy service at the moment, including the overall Service Manager. Additionally, there is a CT medical trainee in a shared post with the Homeless Outreach Team and two ST trainees undertaking dual training in General Adult and Psychotherapy over 5 years. The Psychotherapy Service is only open to referrals from within the Trust and operates a quota system of 25 referrals a month, mostly from CMHTs, to
ensure that there is a match between referral rate and the services clinical capacity. Primary Care patients are seen in the local IAPT and Step Forward services.