Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our well-established Rehabilitation Service. It is a fantastic time to join the senior leadership team as we launch an enhanced Community Rehabilitation service in North Kent.

You will have experience in interventions for complex psychosis, support MDT colleagues with risk management & with training in psychological interventions. So if you have a passion for providing exceptional psychosis services and are looking for an exciting and challenging role, we would welcome your talents and skills.

Main Duties of the Job

The role demands experience in psychological interventions for complex psychosis cases, supervision of other practitioners, facilitating reflective practice and teaching staff psychological approaches in multi-disciplinary teams. Clinically, experience of delivering high-quality assessment and bespoke interventions, with a specific focus on people in distress, related to severe mental health problems (esp. psychosis with co-morbid conditions like ASD, substance misuse, physical health issues) will be required.

You will have plenty of scope and support to develop your own practice, whilst supporting the team in providing high-quality services and working with a variety of partners to deliver effective care.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car / vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

Candidates must hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent as accredited by BPS / HCPC), and have NHS experience in treating and supervising practitioners in psychosis treatments.

Please see JD or contact us for more detail on this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• Doctorate : BPS, HCPC
• Specialist training

Experience

Essential Criteria

KMPT Staff Benefits :

NHS Pension Scheme : Your employer pays 20.6% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.

Annual Leave for Agenda for Change :

27 days for full time or pro rata if part time

29 days full time or pro rata if part time after 5 years NHS service

33 days full time or pro rata if part time after 10 years NHS service

Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!

Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.

Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.

Flexible Working : Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.

Statutory and Occupational Maternity, Paternity or Adoption Leave : Dependant on length of NHS service

Other paid / unpaid leave can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.

Staff Support : KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work-related problems.

NHS Discounts and Shopping Vouchers : Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.

Learning and Development Opportunities : In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.

Induction : KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).

The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT's subject specialists and include the required training.

The programme may involve some travel to the various training venues across Kent and Medway, the main ones being Canterbury, Maidstone and Dartford.

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