Psychotherapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exceptional and exciting opportunity for a Psychotherapist with group experience, who would be interested in gaining additional invaluable skills working across mental health services in an accredited Therapeutic Community, which is a part of Slough Adult Mental Health Services. As the successful postholder, you will be working at the forefront of the Co-production pathway in Slough.

This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for a career development due to the experiences on offer, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates, keen to widen their careers.

• You will work as a valued member of the Slough Mental Health Services, and you will provide a specialist recovery service to users presenting with severe/complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions, complex/intensive risk management plans and high levels of multiagency work.
• You will initiate the safe delivery of the EMBRACE programme, its continuous accreditation, overall Co-production pathway, and contribute to the multidisciplinary teams within the locality and wider Trust services.
• You will be reliable and knowledgeable, and you will have great IT skills and be familiar with various systems and software packages.
• You will need to be able to travel independently across Berkshire.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at

Berkshire Healthcare are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

The 3/4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role

• Significant experience working as a qualified Psychotherapist with professional accreditation and registration with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).
• Significant experience of facilitating and delivering therapeutic groups, ideally within the NHS setting and / or Therapeutic Communities.
• An enhanced DBS check.

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026

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