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VACANCY: We are looking for another Affiliate Therapist to join the team!

Vacancy: Affiliate Therapist: Adult Eating Disorders (16+): Glasgow city centre (one evening per week plus possible additional referrals)

CLOSING DATE: MONDAY 8TH APRIL 2019

* Would you like the opportunity to work with adult (16+) clients experiencing eating disorders/disordered eating in private practice?
* Would you like us to refer clients onto you while we take care of room hire fees, referral fees and advertising/marketing and still earn £30-£40 (£40 for after 5pm/weekend, £30 for daytime) per appointment?
* Would you like to receive other benefits, such as discounted supervision, access to room hire discounts (when you hire the room for your own clients), discounted access to therapist peer support groups and more?
* Would you like add a few clients to your own private practice and see the clients we refer on around your other commitments (i.e. you choose when you see clients)?
* Would you like to receive possible additional referrals from our other two practices (non-eating disorders) too?


If this sounds like you, this self-employed Affiliate Therapist: Adult Eating Disorders role may suit you. You will see clients in our office in Hope Street, Glasgow city centre and it will of interest to those who have experience of working with clients experience eating disorders/disordered eating. 

This is a sessional role and you will receive clients as, and we, we can refer them/have a waiting list. So please note that referrals are not guaranteed and you are joining on a sessional basis.

We have recently taken on an Affiliate Therapist to help with our day-time waiting lists and now looking for another Affiliate Therapist to see clients one evening per week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday evening after 5pm) or at the weekend. Evening and weekend appointments are classed as out-of-hours, and your rate will be higher than daytime work.

We have been inundated with enquiries recently and are looking to recruit someone soon to help with this. Here are some of the requirements we are looking for:

* You must be a qualified therapist/counsellor/psychotherapist (preferably integrative CBT or integrative other approach) and been qualified for at least 4-5 years;
* You must have experience of working with at least 2 different forms of eating disorder/disordered eating (e.g. BED, AN, BN, compulsive overeating, emotional eating, purging disorder, restrictive eating, orthorexia, NES etc.);
* We are a specialist service, so you mush have significant experience working with individuals experiencing difficult relationships with food/eating disorders;
* It is preferable that affiliates have worked with over 30 different clients experiencing eating disorders or problems with food and eating and this must be evidenced/demonstrated. Some additional experience in the fields of eating disorders is desirable (but not essential (e.g group-work, training, campaigning, support work, research etc.);
* You must have current professional indemnity insurance, PVG/Disclosure, be a member of a counselling/health/psychotherapy/psychology professional body and hold a current ICO Data Protection certificate. Just as you are responsible for supervision with your own private practice clients, you will also be responsible for your own supervision here, although we can provide access to discounted supervision and therapist peer support groups.
* You must be registered as self-employed with HMRC.
* You will also have the opportunity to receive referrals from our other practices, Citizen17 Therapy, CBT and Counselling Services and Glasgow Anxiety * Depression Support Service (non-eating disorder clients e.g. depression, anxiety, sexuality, relationships, trauma, etc.)
* You will see clients when you have availability. Once we have completed all the admin for referral, you schedule your own bookings with clients, take your own payment, manage your own diary etc. You will, however, use our working agreement, paperwork, booking and other procedures.

Interested? Contact support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk for a Role Description and Application Form or if you have any questions or need any further information information.

Please only apply if you match the criteria above. Please feel free to share this vacancy with anyone you think might be interested in applying.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

Interviews will take place in Glasgow city centre as soon as possible after this closing date (daytime Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday morning) as we are looking for sometime to start asap.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Alexandra,
Director and Lead Psychotherapist
Talking EDs (Glasgow & West Eating Disorder Support Service)

www.eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk
support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk


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