Group Therapist

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a qualified Group Therapist on a part time basis who has significant training and clinical experience delivering psychotherapeutic groups, preferably in a higher education setting. The main task of the role will be to co-ordinate, oversee and deliver a specialist group therapy service (involving offering two slow open groups throughout the academic year) which is responsive to the needs of students accessing the Advice and Counselling Service and which meets recognised professional standards for ethics and practice in group analytic work. A core part of the role will be to provide skilled and effective risk management within service guidelines as well as to provide informal support for individual therapists in the team who offer short, focused support groups to Queen Mary students.

Please note the date for the interviews for this post is Friday 16th August –the interviews must be attended in person and we are unable to reschedule this date so please ensure you are free to attend when applying.

About You

Applicants must have an appropriate postgraduate group therapy qualification and significant experience of providing psychoanalytic group therapy within an institutional/HE setting and who are familiar with working with clients from diverse backgrounds and social groups, and preferably with experience of working with young adults. As the only group therapist in the team, you will provide regular updates on your work to your line manager and present to the team in clinical meetings. You will need to be comfortable managing risk and following university service protocols in this regard with due attention to appropriate ethical and boundary concerns.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service is a multidisciplinary student support service offering counselling, mental health and psychological support, psychiatry clinics, sexual assault and harassment advice, welfare advice and immigration advice. The service is one of the constituent departments in the Directorate of Student Experience.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality.

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