Director of BPF Infant Observation Training

Location: Working from home, occasional visits to teaching rooms, and occasional visits to bpf house in London.
Start date: February 8, 2025
Deadline for applications: February 10, 2025
Salary: £60,000 fte £6,000 for half a day a week

Closing Date: Thursday 10th February 2025

Job Title: Director of BPF Infant Observation Training

Working For: British Psychotherapy Foundation

Contract duration: Permanent

Hours of work: 1/2 day a week, including some evenings and weekends (meetings or training days). Hours can be worked flexibly around clinical work although some meetings such as Heads of Trainings meetings and all staff meetings should be attended. The hours could increase if the training courses grow.

Location: Working from home, occasional visits to teaching rooms, and occasional visits to bpf house in London.

Salary: £60,000 fte £6,000 for half a day a week

Annual leave: 30 days plus Bank Holidays

Pension: Employer 3%, employee 5%

Notice period: One month.

Qualifications:

Qualified psychoanalytic, Jungian or psychodynamic psychotherapist who has completed a two-year psychoanalytic infant observation.

Major responsibilities:

Attend line management meetings.
Oversee the running of the Infant Observation course as a whole.
Work closely with the training director of the IPCAPA child and adolescent training and the directors of the Jungian and Psychoanalytic trainings.
Attend the psychodynamic training to talk to trainees about the infant obs course.
Promote the course by presenting on open days/seminars/conferences.
Provide an interface between this course and the bpf Heads of Training meeting.
Manage the team of Seminar Leaders and deal with problem issues as they occur (eg Seminar Leader illness/pregnancy or students in difficulty).
Work closely with the infant obs manager regarding the operational management of the course, eg. Vetting incoming applications & advising re initial enquiries relating to clinical matters or to the route through to Jungian/Psychoanalytic training.
Organise representation by committee members on open day events.
Organise Infant Observation committee meeting bi-annually or termly if needed for the team to think about eg. specific students in difficulty to give progress notes through Association reps to the students’ training association/share best practice ideas/learn about the impact of new technology/grow the course to meet bpf trainings' and the students’ needs.

Contact email: SandraP@bpf-psychotherapy.org.uk

Website: https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/vacancies/

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