Would you like:

• To work for an award-winning specialist healthcare company that is dedicated on improving and delivering services rather than delivering the same for less?
• Outstanding personal development and CPD opportunities?
• Flexibility that enables you to balance your work life and personal commitments?

If you answered yes to the above Vita Health Group is your perfect next employer!

The Role:

We are looking to recruit a dynamic and highly skilled therapist, who strives to innovate and wants to make a real difference through the work they do, to join our newly created Step 4 service treating patients with more complex needs in primary care. Working as part of a motivated, cohesive, and well-supported clinical team, the post holder will be an experienced therapist with a proven record of treating a wide range of mental health presentations.

We are looking for therapists with additional training in modalities such as cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBT-P), psychodynamic approaches such as Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). Experience and training in working with personality disorder and trauma presentations will be essential; EMDR qualifications would be beneficial. Modality-specific clinical supervisors, appropriate for the caseload will be provided as well regular case management supervision and ongoing training.  

Clinicians are well resourced with IT and communications equipment. The service uses the IAPTus patient administration system and operates on a near-paperless basis.

The successful candidate will need to be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, service users and members of the public, respect individual rights to confidentiality, and complete tasks within given deadlines. The candidate will have relevant qualifications, most likely at post-graduate level, have accreditation with an appropriate professional body and be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and experience within the area of adult mental health.

Are you a passionate Psychological Therapist, can you demonstrate?

• Experience of working in mental health
• Additional training in evidence-based psychological approaches
• Experience of treating complex mental health presentations in adults
• Experience of MDT working
• Excellent communication skills
• IT skills - Microsoft Office/Patient record systems

To achieve our ultimate aim of making people better we recognise importance and benefits of investing in our team. We provide:

• Focus of staff wellbeing through, events, staff events, wellbeing champions and initiatives
• Flexible approach to working through remote and homeworking options (subject to service level requirements)
• Day to day clinical support and leadership
• Regular clinical supervision
• Ongoing continual professional development opportunities
• Individual CPD and development plans
• A friendly and supportive work environment with an overall culture of energy, solution focus and excellence in both our service delivery and support to our team

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Mental health background with additional psychological therapy training
• Experience of working with complex mental health presentations which extend beyond the scope of IAPT service provision
• Awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion

Desirable:

• MBT working
• Experience of facilitating group based interventions
• Trained in: Mentalisation-based Therapy (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Trained in Structured Clinical Management (SCM)

The Company:

Vita Health Group is a leading UK healthcare provider with over 30 years’ experience delivering best in class physical and mental health services across corporate, NHS and private patients.

We comprise of three leading UK healthcare providers, each with their own great reputation within the healthcare industry; RehabWorks, Workplace Wellness and Crystal Palace Physio Group.

Why Vita Health Group?

Our company purpose is “to make people better” which is inclusive of everyone we treat. In order to achieve this, we strongly believe in our company values:

• Leadership
• Customer Focussed
• People Centred
• Quality
• Integrity

Our values provide the building blocks for us to achieve the Vita Health Group vision to be the UKs Leading Healthcare Provider of best in class Physical and Mental Health Solutions.

We are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer and value excellence in everything we do. We have a strong focus on supporting and developing our employees and are keen to bring on board candidates that share our vision to be a workplace of choice.

We continually look at attracting the very best people from the widest talent pool. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment that you might need in the applications process, you can do so by visiting our website and clicking on “contact us” button located at the top right of the page. Please dial the number for our head office in Bury St Edmunds and ask to speak to a member of our recruitment team who will be happy to discuss your requirements.

Benefit Package

The role offers a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:

• Enhanced annual leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Ability to work from home when required and where possible (min 5mb download speed required)
• Benenden health cover including access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Online benefits portal, including high street discounts and a wellbeing zone
• Continued Professional Development opportunities and comprehensive training provided
• Life Assurance insurance
• Access to internal Equality and Diversity Networks/Groups
• Length of service awards

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.

Vita Health Group is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident Committed Employer.  We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Vita Health Group is actively seeking to increase the diversity of its workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to supporting wellbeing for all employees and are associated with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.

Vita Health Group