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Are you passionate about supporting individuals effected by perinatal mental health?  Are you looking for a new role where you can professionally develop, whilst being supported by a friendly and experienced team? 

We are excited to be able to offer a fantastic position for qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Parent Infant Psychotherapist. There will be very close working with a Senior Clinical Psychologist and/or Parent Infant Psychotherapist.

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the newly accredited and expanding specialist perinatal service. You will provide qualified specialist psychological services to parents, infants and families during the perinatal period. Delivering specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice, supervision and consultation as required. The role will include active involvement in the multidisciplinary development of the specialist community perinatal mental health service. 

What is High Cost Area Allowance?

 The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.

 As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.

 5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The Perinatal Mental Health Community Service (PMHCS; formerly known as MIMHS) is a specialist service that covers the whole of Kent and Medway. PMHCS specialises in the assessment, diagnosis and short-term treatment of women aged 18 and above who are affected by a moderate to severe mental health illness in the preconception, antenatal and postnatal period.

As perinatal mental health is an expanding area of development, there is fantastic potential for career development and training opportunities. There will be the opportunity to develop specialist competencies in evidence-based models (e.g. tf-CBT, EMDR,) for individual therapy as well as specialist parent-infant interventions including Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) and Video Feedback Intervention to promote positive parenting (VIPP) as well as developing group interventions.

In line with the long-term plan, the service is developing its interventions with couples, co-parents and working with families up to 24 months. It is an exciting time to join our teams as each perinatal service has recently been awarded national funding for the expansion of their services.

 You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service policies and procedures. Training in EMDR and parent-infant approaches will be provided to the successful applicant.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are  rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.