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Job overview

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust in partnership with the University of Southampton are delighted to invite applications for seven full time Trainee Cognitive Behavioural Psychological Therapist posts. These posts are on the Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Serious Mental Health problems (Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder or Personality Disorders) at the University of Southampton. Applications are particularly encouraged from people with an interest and knowledge / experience of Cognitive Behavioural therapy. These seven posts will be based in various community services across Kent, serving both working age and older adults.  The post holders will provide formal psychological interventions using newly developed skills whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. Once the course requirements are met and the post holder has achieved provisional accreditation with the BABCP they will progress to a full time qualified band 7 CBT Psychological Therapist role within the service they trained.

Applicant must have a core profession as outlined in the person specification. Evidence of this will be needed at interview.

Main duties of the job

This is a transition and training role, which is a fixed term contract. Once the course requirements are met and the post holder has achieved provisional accreditation with the BABCP they will progress to a full time qualified band 7 CBT therapist role. The post holder will work within Working age adult or Older peoples Community Transformed mental health services in KMPT

• To attend to the training course requirements and undertake all of the below duties under the supervision of a clinical supervisor.
• Develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contribute towards the overall assessment of their care needs
• Collaboratively establish individual patients goals towards recovery.
• Determine suitability of specific psychological interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patients assessment/formulation
• Plan, deliver and review individual and group psychological interventions for specific patients.
• With service user consent, to video tape clinical sessions for viewing in clinical supervision and for submission for course assignments.
• Identify gaps within and potential developments of the psychological therapy programme, reporting these to supervisory staff
• The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities

Working for our organisation

Come and work for 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 & Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disabilities 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 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.