Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Duties

Training the CDS UK Workforce (Core staff & Associates)

To review and refine an induction training programme for new staff and associates.

To develop, lead, coordinate and deliver a continuing professional development programme for all staff and associate, in conjunction with the senior team. This will include a training needs audit, developing and sourcing training materials, identifying the best methods of delivery, setting up training, securing attendees and evaluating the programme.

To identify, with the core team, topics that should be covered in a regular in-service training programme. This will include mandatory training such health and safety, information governance and other policy areas.

To work the Chief Executive and Chair of the Board of Trustees to identify the training needs of the Board of Trustees.

Training external professionals

To develop a training strategy for staff in the NHS, criminal justice system, local authorities, decision makers and policy leads (e.g. mental health commissioners, NHS England) and other charities, in conjunction with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations and Business. This will involve crystallising the ambition but also identifying priorities and realistic goals.

To agree the funding model underpinning the strategy

To deliver training that is appropriate for your skillset

To develop a training workforce to support with training delivery, i.e. identify staff, associates and others who have an interest in training and support them to develop their training skills.

To develop a simple marketing plan and business development process, e.g. standard ways of tracking marketing and of responding to training requests.

To develop training courses and materials (in conjunction with others) and to ensure experts with experience are involved.

To organise the delivery of training, with some administrative support from the administrative team.

To identify other partners (those with expertise in severe dissociative disorders) who CDS UK could potentially partner with to deliver the strategy and to work with the Chief Executive, Clinical Director and Director of Operations and Business to develop relationships and agreements with partners.

To develop evaluation materials and undertake end of training evaluation.

Job responsibilities

Key Duties

Training the CDS UK Workforce (Core staff & Associates)

To review and refine an induction training programme for new staff and associates.

To develop, lead, coordinate and deliver a continuing professional development programme for all staff and associate, in conjunction with the senior team. This will include a training needs audit, developing and sourcing training materials, identifying the best methods of delivery, setting up training, securing attendees and evaluating the programme.

To identify, with the core team, topics that should be covered in a regular in-service training programme. This will include mandatory training such health and safety, information governance and other policy areas.

To work the Chief Executive and Chair of the Board of Trustees to identify the training needs of the Board of Trustees.

Training external professionals

To develop a training strategy for staff in the NHS, criminal justice system, local authorities, decision makers and policy leads (e.g. mental health commissioners, NHS England) and other charities, in conjunction with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations and Business. This will involve crystallising the ambition but also identifying priorities and realistic goals.

To agree the funding model underpinning the strategy

To deliver training that is appropriate for your skillset

To develop a training workforce to support with training delivery, i.e. identify staff, associates and others who have an interest in training and support them to develop their training skills.

To develop a simple marketing plan and business development process, e.g. standard ways of tracking marketing and of responding to training requests.

To develop training courses and materials (in conjunction with others) and to ensure experts with experience are involved.

To organise the delivery of training, with some administrative support from the administrative team.

To identify other partners (those with expertise in severe dissociative disorders) who CDS UK could potentially partner with to deliver the strategy and to work with the Chief Executive, Clinical Director and Director of Operations and Business to develop relationships and agreements with partners.

To develop evaluation materials and undertake end of training evaluation.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Post-qualification psychotherapeutic or clinical practice experience.
• Registration with a recognised psychotherapeutic national body
• e.g., UKCP/BACP/BPS/HCPC, or equivalent
• Experience of long-term therapeutic work with people with Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) and/or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
• Experience of developing and successfully delivering training

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge in how to support professionals in complex clinical work and people with childhood trauma including sexual abuse.
• Experience of developing a training strategy.

Qualifications

Essential

• A professional qualification at post-graduate level in psychotherapy, clinical psychology or the equivalent

Desirable

• Additional training in trauma and severe dissociative disorders.

Qualities

Essential

• Ability to deal with distressing and other emotional situations and discussions objectively and with emotional intelligence
• Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries
• Ability to recognise own strengths and weaknesses and to be able to utilise and address these
• Self-motivated
• Flexible
• Reliable

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and excellent IT skills
• Ability to develop and lead projects
• An ability to produce a range of high-quality written training materials and other communication, including in reports, emails, and letters to support the work of the organisation.
• An ability to liaise and develop partnerships with a wide range of internal and external professionals and organisations, in a way that supports the work of CDS UK.

Experience

Essential

• Post-qualification psychotherapeutic or clinical practice experience.
• Registration with a recognised psychotherapeutic national body
• e.g., UKCP/BACP/BPS/HCPC, or equivalent
• Experience of long-term therapeutic work with people with Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) and/or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
• Experience of developing and successfully delivering training

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge in how to support professionals in complex clinical work and people with childhood trauma including sexual abuse.
• Experience of developing a training strategy.

Qualifications

Essential

• A professional qualification at post-graduate level in psychotherapy, clinical psychology or the equivalent

Desirable

• Additional training in trauma and severe dissociative disorders.

Qualities

Essential

• Ability to deal with distressing and other emotional situations and discussions objectively and with emotional intelligence
• Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries
• Ability to recognise own strengths and weaknesses and to be able to utilise and address these
• Self-motivated
• Flexible
• Reliable

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and excellent IT skills
• Ability to develop and lead projects
• An ability to produce a range of high-quality written training materials and other communication, including in reports, emails, and letters to support the work of the organisation.
• An ability to liaise and develop partnerships with a wide range of internal and external professionals and organisations, in a way that supports the work of CDS UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

CDS UK (Clinic for Dissociative Studies)

Address

35 Tottenham Lane

London

N8 9BD

Employer's website

https://www.clinicds.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)