Job summary
- Main area
- West Kent
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0182
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highlands House
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist/CBT Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or CBT therapist to join the Mental Health Rehabilitation Service as we launch Community Rehabilitation in West Kent. We welcome applications from both newly qualified or experienced therapists.
Community Rehabilitation supports people with mental health problems live a full and active life within their family & community, working in partnership with Social Care, Housing and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.
As a key member of the multi-disciplinary team , you will be responsible for offering high-quality psychological treatments (individual & group) and family interventions s. Case consultation and joint work with team members will also be an expectation. You will have plenty of scope and support to develop your own practice, whilst providing a highly professional service to people with psychosis and their families.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the systematic provision of Psychological Therapies or interventions
- To undertake high quality direct and indirect specialist psychology interventions (including CBT/CBTp & family Interventions)
- To work collaboratively as part of the multi-professional team and enhance the therapeutic practice of the team.
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
Candidates must hold a postgraduate Qualification in Clinical Psychology/CBT, hold HCPC or BABCP registration, and have experience of working with adults with mental health problems.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role or please contact us to discuss further.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in CBT/doctorate in Psychology
- BABCP/HCPC
- Additional training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Years of Experience
- Experience in AMH/Severe MH Problems/psychosis
- Experience in CBT/other modalities
- Experience in MDT working
- Experience in groupwork/family work
- Knowledge of recovery & social inclusion/rehab policies
- audit/service evaluation/research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Meena McGill
- Job title
- Lead for psychological Practice
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07535654988
- Additional information
Justine Barry (Service Manager) - 07814713615
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