Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 24 months (fixed term or secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0448
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit
- Town
- Maidstone
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are looking for a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to be part of an established community team, improving the lives of forensic mental health service users.
Part of a pioneering programme funded by NHS England, the team supports forensic service users in the community instead of in secure hospitals. This can improve quality of life and reduce inequality, and allow hospital care costs to be reinvested into community services. Other teams in the programme have spoken of having a “genuine impact on service users’ lives”, and the ability to “instil hope” and “witness real life changes”.
Main duties of the job
This is a rare chance to be part of an established community forensic service, providing opportunities to develop your skills and your career. You will play a key role in the multi-disciplinary team, working alongside colleagues from nursing, social work, occupational therapy and medicine. You will need to be a Chartered Psychologist with experience in mental health settings, but preferably with experience in forensic services or community settings. Management and leadership experience is required, as you will lead a small psychology team within FOLS. It’s an opportunity to work with a complex client group, using a range of clinical skills and interventions, both individually and in groups. The primary caseload will be patients who are discharged from secure settings into more independent living in the community in Kent. You will be working in a dynamic community setting, balancing positive risk taking and strengths-based approaches with public protection and balancing support with promoting independence. The post involves working closely with Community Mental Health Teams, offering advice and consultation around risk reduction.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a full-time, two-year fixed-term contract at Agenda for Change band 8B, also suitable for an internal secondment for existing KMPT staff, covering for an existing staff member taking a career break. Flexible working opportunities are available. The team will cover Kent and out of area Kent patients.
For more details, see the job description.
Person specification
Training/qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical/forensic psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Post-Doctoral Training/qualification in one or more Therapeutic Models e.g: CBT, DBT, MBT, Psychodynamic
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of four years post qualification experience in working in a variety of mental health/forensic settings. Experience of working in range of mental health / neuro developmental disability settings with a range of age groups as specified by BPS competencies for clinical/forensic psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of management of staff
- Experience of Conducting audit, service evaluation and Qi
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex highly emotive situations and those with significantly impaired communication capacities.
- Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial clinical information from a range of sources integrating it into a formulation utilising a variety of psychological perspectives.
Desirable criteria
- Additional specialist supervised experience in the setting and client group of this post.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leigh Curtis
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist FOLS team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622 723114
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