Psychotherapist/Counsellor: Eating Disorders

Job Description

Talking EDs: Glasgow and West Eating Disorders Support Service seek to recruit a suitable candidate to join out team of psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health practitioners and dieticians. We are recruiting for an Affiliate Psychotherapist/Counsellor: Eating Disorders (Adults and Young People) to provide online and face-to-face therapy (when this resumes). Out offices re based in Glasgow city centre for one morning/afternoon per week (although other wrok may be available here and at our other non-eating disorder practices).* Would you like the opportunity to work with adult and young people experiencing eating disorders/disordered eating in private practice * Would you like us to refer clients onto you while we take care of room hire fees, referral fees and advertising/marketing, admin, referrals, setting up initial appointments and still earn £30-£40 (£40 for after 5pm/weekend, £30 for daytime) per appointment * Would you like to receive other benefits, such as discounted supervision, access to room hire discounts (when you hire the room for your own clients), discounted access to therapist peer support groups , free coffee and chat clubs for affiliates and more * Would you like to receive possible additional referrals from our other two practices (non-eating disorders) tooIf this sounds like you, wed like to hear from you. This is a sessional, self-employed role and you will receive clients as, and we, we can refer them/when we have a waiting list. So please note that referrals are not guaranteed and you are joining on a sessional basis. There is also the opportunity to receive clients from our two other non-eating disorder practices.We have a team of 6 psychotherapists and are looking for someone else to join the team to help with clients who are looking for day-time appointments. Evening and weekend appointments can be offered too (these are classed as out-of-hours, and your rate will be higher than daytime work), however, we are looking for someone who can provide day-time appointments in the first instance.You must be able to provide online and face-to-face appointments. We anticipate face-to-face appointments will resume in August.We have been busy with enquiries recently and are looking to recruit someone soon to help with this. Here are some of the requirements we are looking for: * You must be a qualified therapist/counsellor/psychotherapist (preferably integrative CBT or integrative other approach - other modalities considered. If you have some training in DBT, that would be an advantage too) and been qualified for at least 4-5 years; * You must have experience of working with at least 2 different forms of eating disorder/disordered eating (e.g. BED, AN, BN, compulsive overeating, emotional eating, purging disorder, restrictive eating, orthorexia, NES etc.); * We are a specialist service, so you must have significant experience working with individuals experiencing difficult relationships with food/eating disorders; * It is preferable that affiliates have worked with over 30 different clients experiencing eating disorders or problems with food and eating and this must be evidenced/demonstrated. Our clients are looking for therapists who have lots of experience working with eating disorders/disordered eating. * Some additional experience in the fields of eating disorders is desirable (but not essential (e.g. group-work, training, campaigning, support work, research etc.); * You must be willing to work face-to-face and online (Zoom).* You must have current professional indemnity insurance, PVG/Disclosure, be a member of a counselling/health/psychotherapy/psychology professional body and hold a current ICO Data Protection certificate. * As an Affiliate, you will receive free annual membership to The CBTers Club (a support, networking, social, CPD and professional membership for therapists, psychologists, counsellors, mental health practitioners etc. with some interest in CBT or who just want to network with other therapists) and Glasgow and West Eating Disorders Networking Group.You will also have access to discounted clinical supervision (should you wish to work with our supervisor) and access to 3-4 free support and supervision groups for affiliates.* You must be registered as self-employed with HMRC (or be willing to register for this). * You will also have the opportunity to receive referrals from our other practices, Citizen17 Therapy, CBT and Counselling Services and Glasgow Anxiety and Depression Support Service (non-eating disorder clients e.g. depression, anxiety, sexuality, relationships, trauma, etc.) * You will see clients when you have availability. Once we have completed all the admin for referral, you schedule your own bookings with clients, take your own payment, manage your own diary etc. You will, however, use our working agreement, paperwork, booking and other procedures. You are not left alone though - we are here to support all our affiliates and schedule regulat team meetings, supervision groups, send updates and news and more. CLOSING DATE: Friday 3rd July 2020, 5pmContact us for a Role Description and Application Form or if you have any questions or need any further information information. We look forward to hearing from you. Required skills

Clinical Psychology

Counselling

Mental Health

Psychology

Psychotherapy

Keyskills :
Clinical Psychology Counselling Mental Health Psychology Psychotherapy