SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
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POST:<br />
TRAINER:<br />
EMPLOYING TRUST:<br />
Psychotherapy<br />
Dr C Susan Mizen<br />
Devon Partnership NHS Trust<br />
JOB DESCRIPTION: The Psychotherapy department at Wonford House is a busy outpatient service offering a<br />
range of therapies and with an emphasis on the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental illness.<br />
The population served by the service is 243,000 and it is available to adults between the ages of 18 and 65. The<br />
service receives around 160 referrals per year from Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon. There is a full time<br />
Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy in post, Dr C S Mizen. The service offers long term psychodynamic<br />
psychotherapy and gestalt therapy once weekly, a number of short term intervention, group analytic<br />
psychotherapy and systemic family and couple therapy. A new service for patients with severe personality<br />
disorders offering teams has been developed. A proposal is under discussion for incorporating this service for<br />
people with personality disorder into a therapeutic community day service. The service operates as part of a<br />
co-ordinated psychological therapies service with psychology and creative therapies services locally.<br />
The Specialty Trainee would be offered an opportunity to run a group for patients with Borderline Personality<br />
Disorder with Dr Mizen and to participate in the liaison with psychiatric teams which takes place alongside this<br />
service. This would include offering consultation under supervision to psychiatric wards about management of<br />
PD patients who are frequently admitted to hospital. In addition the trainee would have the opportunity to see<br />
patients under supervision for long term or brief individual psychodynamic therapy, cognitive analytic therapy<br />
or cognitive behaviour therapy. There would also be opportunities to become involved in family therapy and<br />
to gain experience in assessing patients for psychotherapy under supervision. There are regular opportunities<br />
for teaching in the department to SHOs and medical students as well as to trainee therapists. There are<br />
opportunities to participate in the new MSc in Psychotherapy being run in conjunction with Exeter University.<br />
This can lead to UKCP accreditation in systemic, dynamic or cognitive therapies, for interested trainees.<br />
The Psychotherapy department occupies spacious facilities, recently refurbished within the main hospital<br />
building at Wonford House with a number of rooms available for individual and group therapy as well as a<br />
family therapy suite with two way screen and video equipment. The Specialty Trainee would have access to<br />
office pace throughout the week. The service has a full time secretary.<br />
TIMETABLE<br />
A.M.<br />
P.M.<br />
Monday<br />
9.30 Individual Patient<br />
10.30 Psychotherapy Assessment<br />
Audit, Teaching, Supervision,<br />
Clinical Work<br />
12.00 - 1.00 Supervision with<br />
Consultant<br />
Tuesday TBA Special Interest<br />
Wednesday<br />
Thursday<br />
9.30 - 11.00 Group for borderlines<br />
with Dr Mizen<br />
11.00 - 1.00 Patient/Admin<br />
9.30 Patient<br />
11.00 - 1.00 Supervision of PD<br />
Projects, Academic Programme,<br />
Departmental Meeting<br />
Friday TBA Research<br />
On-Call 1: 14 with Consultant Cover<br />
Monthly Specialty Trainee Meeting<br />
2 nd Monday of month<br />
Academic Afternoon<br />
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