Job Description

This post is part of NHS funded three-year Talking Therapies High Intensity Psychotherapeutic Counselling training programme in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) de livered by Roehampton University. Trainees will be attending their university course alongside their duties within Islington NHS Talking therapies (TT).



This is a three-year NHS Talking Therapies training role working towards a qualification as a High Intensity Psychotherapeutic Counsellor . Year one is a Band 5 foundation course. Upon successful completion, the candidate progresses to a two-year fixed-term Band 6 position in High-Intensity Psychotherapeutic Counselling.



Training involves 3 days per week with the training organisation (Roehampton University ) and 2 days per week in-service working with clients , initially offering high intensity psychodynamic counselling and later Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) . The course will be a mixture of in person training and online live input via the zoom platform. As this is a Postgraduate level diploma, you will also be required to be able to st udy and write academic material at this level. Applicants must be prepared to study and write assignments outside of protected study time (such as on weekends and after work).



This role will be best suited for applicants that are able to balance a busy work and study schedule.



Successful applicants will need to be in a position to begin their training at the end of September 2025.



North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff networ



In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.



As this is a training position, please be aware that this is a dual application process where you must be employed in a Recruit to Train funded job to also receive a place on the course, and vice-versa . If you are ineligible for the University Course, you will be unable to be offered the role. If you withdraw from an employment offer but you have accepted a university offer, you will be unable to join the course. Trainee selection processes including shortlisting and interviews will be carried out jointly by recruiting IAPT services and Roehampton University. Successful applicants will need to meet both the requirements of the employing service's job description and person specification and Roehampton University's entry requirements.



Please note that when you apply to this role, your name will be shared with Roehampton University. The service will usually be the Course Team's main way of contacting you until you have been sent an Offer, and so the Course Team at Roehampton University may ask for information if it is missing but relevant to deciding eligibility.

Other information that might be shared includes :

Reason behind ineligibility for the course.



Queries regarding application (such as if you claim to have a professional registration without submitting certificates, the course may ask service to pursue more information)



Name change - if you may have registered with a different name than HEI was given, they will confirm with service to ensure that they are reviewing the correct candidate.



If you apply to th is job, you are giving permission for information to be shared between the Course Team at Roehampton University and the Recruitment team at the Service. The only information that is shared will be relevant to establishing eligibility for the job/course . No irrelevant information will be disclosed or discussed in relation to your application .