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Would YOU Like To Be Part Of Our Team?

Imagine being able to work in an environment where your development, both professional and personal, is seen as integral to the running of the business, where every member of the team, whether administration and support or clincial staff, is valued for themselves as well as for their work.

Imagine working in a place where the corporate vision is ‘Helping people feel better, achieve more and lead happier lives’.

Qualified Clinicians

We are always on the lookout for highly skilled clinicians. So, if you feel you have what it takes, please contacts Sean at sean__A__seanbarkes__=__co__=__uk

Internship for Acupuncture Students

Preamble

Historically, The Sean Barkes Clinic has had an informal relationship with the University of Lincoln Acupuncture degree course, having offered the opportunity for clinical observation to students from all years on a free of charge basis. This has been a mutually beneficial arrangement whereby students gained valuable clinical experience in a busy real life clinic environment whilst clinicians were encouraged to articulate clinical reasoning to a third party whilst delivering their service. Over the years, The Sean Barkes Clinic has subsequently employed 3 of these students as clinical staff as a result of this relationship.

The Sean Barkes Clinic is now in need of further resource to cover a range of activities and so wish to capitalise upon our current relationship with the University. This way, we hope to further benefit students whilst increasing our clinics ability to service clients’ clinical and administrative needs.

This will be a paid role attracting all the normal benefits of employment such as holiday pay

Future Employment Prospects

Growth has always been a primary business goal The Sean Barkes Clinic. With this in mind, employment opportunities may come about from time to time. Whilst, employment subsequent to qualification cannot be guaranteed, students who have already worked at the clinic will gain an obvious advantage, when applying for work, compared to other potential candidates who have no prior relationship with the clinic.

Applications

All students who are interested in applying for the role should contact Sean Barkes, Clinical Director for the Sean Barkes Clinic by email at sean__A__seanbarkes__=__co__=__uk requesting a roles specification. It is likely that more than one position will be available.

Applicants should provide a letter of application, explaining why they might be ideal for the role together with a CV and references

What our Team Says

"Being an acupuncturist can often be a lonely profession with little or no contact with other practitioners except for occasional conferences or regional British Acupuncture Council Meetings.

The Sean Barkes Clinic offers the opportunity to work in a busy vibrant clinic with other practitioners and support staff. Frequent interaction with colleagues and formalised systems of professional development allow for growth and advancement that would be difficult to achieve for most loan practitioners.

Knowing that there is always a friendly colleague to talk to and being able to draw on the accumulated and diverse knowledge of a group makes working at The Sean Barkes Clinic a pleasure as well as a rare opportunity for continued professional and personal development."

Austin Austin

As an acupuncturist practising Traditional Chinese Medicine, I find myself in a very privileged position. Meeting wonderful, interesting people and having the time to listening to them, hearing about their lives and the problems they face is a rewarding and humbling experience.

To practice my profession in an environment where I can find support, intellectual curiosity and a friendly hug is such a fantastic experience that I challenge anybody to find a better place to work.

Jan Taylor

There are lots of good things, for me, about working here at the Sean Barkes Clinic, but in a way the thing I like the most is almost intangible. It is something like the atmosphere, or even the ‘vibe’, of the place. I think this must be something which has built up over the years. In Chinese Medicine it is often said that the ‘intention’ of the therapist is crucial in any healing process, by which is meant that their state of mind needs to be focused and purposeful as they administer treatment. There is a world of difference between someone mechanically and routinely inserting a needle into you, and someone doing it with their awareness extended to the tip of the needle, with their intention focused on achieving a particular therapeutic effect with that needle.

So over the years that the clinic has been open there must have been thousands and thousands of these kinds of moments, with an acupuncturist giving their best attention to what they are going, focusing their mind on the needle, aiming to restore balance and health to their patient. Maybe these moments leave some kind of subtle trace; something builds up over time, like cairns on mountains which are built up by people putting a rock on as they pass. It is a bit like going into a room which has been used by people meditating, maybe over years or even centuries – there is a very definite sense of a sort of vibrant peace in such rooms.

So when I come into the clinic in the morning, I come into that kind of atmosphere and this supports what I try to do with my patients. Maybe it is easier for people to heal in such a place; it is certainly easier to practice Chinese Medicine in such a place.

Vimala Prabha

If you would like to work as part of a team of highly skilled professionals...

...who constantly strive to improve the service they provide through continual professional development; a team that supports each other, that shares ideas for improving their service and above all else a team that puts their patients at the very heart of their treatment.

Then apply to The Sean Barkes Clinic using one of the following methods:

e-mail

e-mail: sean__A__seanbarkes__=__co__=__uk

Telephone:

01522 809371

Postal Address:

41 Moor Lane

North Hykeham

Lincoln

LN6 9AE