Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
EMDR and Complex Trauma Specialist Therapist
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EMDR and Complex Trauma Specialist Therapist Opportunity
The Central Shropshire Community Mental Health Team has an opportunity for an EMDR and Complex Trauma Specialist Therapist to join the team working 28 hours per week. In the role, you will be traveling as required within Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, providing clinical services directly face to face and remotely.
About the Role
As an EMDR and Complex Trauma Specialist Therapist, you will:
- Assess, formulate, and deliver high quality, evidence-based psychological therapies for adults experiencing the effects of trauma, including PTSD and Complex PTSD.
- Hold a clinical caseload, providing trauma-focused interventions such as EMDR and other NICE recommended approaches (t-CBT, NET) delivered flexibly through mostly face-to-face and a small number of digital appointments.
- Contribute to assessments, developing collaborative, person-centered formulations and treatment plans informed by a psychological understanding of trauma.
- Accurately use outcome measures, clinical documentation, and electronic records as an important part of your practice.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, offering consultation, advice, and guidance to colleagues.
- Gather outcome data and contribute to ongoing audits within the team around the effectiveness of therapy approaches.
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- Provide specialist EMDR and Complex Trauma therapies within the Central Shropshire CMHT.
- Work with clients face-to-face alone, in Severnfields or other care environments, or at their home as necessary.
- Communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.
- Conduct psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care, interpreting complex data, and giving feedback effectively and sensitively.
- Be skilled in risk assessment and management, maintaining high professional levels of clinical judgment and application of complex skills at all times.
- Provide assessment reports, both written and verbal, to referrers of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics.
- Within consultation sessions and following assessment, provide formulation and treatments for PTSD and C-PTSD to an exceptionally high standard to service users with a range of complex psychological distress and mental health problems.
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