EMDR and Complex Trauma Specialist Therapist

• To provide specialist EMDR and Complex Trauma therapies within the Central Shropshire CMHT. To work with clients face-to-face alone, in Severnfields or other care environments, or at their home as necessary. Within this to be able to communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.
• To be responsible for conducting 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 with sensitively.
• To be skilled in risk assessment and management. These demands will incorporate frequent intense concentration often in emotionally demanding or unpredictable environments. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times.
• To 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, to 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.

Essential

• Accreditation as an EMDR Europe Practitioner OR EMDR UK approved training compliant with EMDR Europe criteria and standards with well progressed supervised practice and portfolio for accreditation within the next 6 months. Completed a Parts 1-4 and Level 2of EMDR training.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body

Essential

• Experience of working as an autonomous EMDR and trauma therapist with people with significant mental health difficulties including Psychosis, Bipolar and Complex Emotional Needs