SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery

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