Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 4 sessions per week (Must be able to work Wednesdays face to face in Leeds)
- Job ref
- 260-TP-940-A
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Leeds, Yorkshire(West Riding),
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
This position has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery, in this instance, the assessment component of the MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58), which is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council. The post holder will work flexibly across a range of programmes to provide teaching, supervision and tuition to master’s and where appropriate, doctoral students, as required. The post holder will also be involved in recruitment and assessment processes and will assist flexibly in all aspects of course delivery within the portfolio and other portfolios where relevant.
Portfolio Information
The MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58) is situated within the DET Psychoanalytic Portfolio. Other courses currently within this portfolio are:
- Masters in Psychological Therapy with Children, Young People and Families, (M34) BPC accredited
- Trust Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (M14) BPC accredited
- Trust Certificate in Interdisciplinary Training in Adult Psychotherapy (M1) BPC accredited
- Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (M80) ACP accredited
Main duties of the job
Overview and main duties of the post
The position of Psychodynamic Psychotherapist has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery such as module leadership; assessment; recruitment etc. The postholder will work flexibly across a range of programmes to provide teaching, supervision and tuition to master’s and where appropriate, doctoral students, as required. The postholder will also be involved in recruitment and assessment processes and will assist flexibly in all aspects of course delivery within the portfolio and other portfolios where relevant.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has a national brief for training in the mental health professions, social care, education and forensic services across the age range. In 2020 the Trust was the first NHS body successful in obtaining registration with the Office for Students (OfS). Its academic awards are validated by university partners, mainly the University of Essex.
The Trust develops and delivers training initiatives that meet the needs of a modern health and social care sector and is responsive to policy and initiatives from government and other relevant agencies. The Trust is a welcoming and supportive organisation committed to ensuring its student body is diverse and reflects the populations its trainees will be working with. Its offer, provided through a range of platforms both digital and face to face, includes postgraduate programmes, CPD courses, and bespoke training for organisations.
Beyond this the Trust also provides organisational consultancy through Tavistock Consulting and hosts the National Workforce Skills Development Unit which works closely with Health Education England (HEE) to address key workforce challenges in the wider healthcare workforce.
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Where appropriate contribute to the teaching and supervision on a range of courses including complex clinical and/or research based Masters and where appropriate, Doctoral programmes, within the Psychoanalytic Portfolio and related portfolios as required. If allocated module leadership responsibility, this will involve ensuring all administrative tasks, curriculum, teaching, reading lists, and related activities are managed in line with course expectations under the direction of the Course Leads.
· To deliver asynchronous lectures, face to face or online workshops and seminars across the programmes.
· Where appropriate to provide clinical or research supervision to students across courses in the portfolio and responding to often highly complex issues requiring consideration of a range of possible options and providing expert knowledge and input.
· To act as personal tutor to allocated students on a range of programmes and liaising with the student support and engagement lead as required.
· To attend a mandatory EDI training (a minimum of one day).
· To ensure teaching and supervision integrates an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory framework and takes account of equality, diversity and inclusion.
· To contribute to marketing initiatives when required, including attendance at Trust-wide and course specific open events for prospective students.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- UK recognised qualification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/ Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and registration with the BPC.
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role
- Commitment to and track record in anti- discriminatory, anti-racist practice and teaching
Desirable criteria
- Track record of writing for publication
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rodrigo Sanchez
- Job title
- M58 Course Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you are interested in the post please contact Rodrigo Sanchez ([email protected]) for further information.
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