Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-WK0180
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highlands House, Tunbridge Wells
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
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 to deliver the Clinical Care Pathways in KMPT. Intent on bringing innovative ideas into practice, the clinical care pathways are evidence based clinical interventions delivered across Secondary Care Mental Health Services in Kent. With a focus on psychologically informed interventions, these roles will play a significant role in delivering brief manualised clinical interventions as well as co-facilitating therapy groups, under the supervision of qualified psychological practitioners.
We are committed to providing support and excellent supervision and to developing their staff. The Services have good links with the Christchurch Canterbury University Doctoral Training Course in Clinical Psychology based at David Salomon’s House to which they regularly provide clinical placements to clinical psychologists in training.
The successful candidate will hold a good honours degree in Psychology and be interested in pursuing a career in a related area.
This post may close early if sufficient numbers of applicants apply.
Main duties of the job
Participate in the provision of direct clinical work through delivery of manualised psychologically informed structured interventions as part of Psychological Services to adults with mental health difficulties within the community & recovery service line.
Deliver ‘initial interventions’ to people accessing adult mental health services as part of the Clinical Care Pathways in the CMHT. Specific and targeted training will be provided by experienced Psychological Practitioners and all interventions supported by weekly clinical supervision from Psychological Practitioners.
Undertake other structured therapeutic psychological interventions in an identified service or services using own independent initiative within guidelines provided by a qualified psychologist.
Undertake clinically and service performance related administration, audit and research projects, teaching and service improvement project work under the professional guidance of a qualified psychologist.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To undertake training in the delivery of the CBT informed intervention known as ‘Initial Interventions’ delivered by a group of specialist psychological practitioners.
To deliver CBT the informed interventions to a range of adults accessing Secondary Care Mental Health Services under the direct responsibility and clinical supervision of experienced Psychological Practitioners.
To undertake a range of other skills-based or protocol-driven psychological therapeutic interventions, in addition to Initial Interventions, depending upon the needs of the service.
To receive and participate in weekly clinical supervision around all clinical work.
Person specification
Qualifications/Skills
Essential criteria
- Psychology undergraduate degree/masters
- Research/Audit skills
- IT/Statistical Packages experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous assistant post experience
- Presentation skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in adult mental health
- Working with patients
Desirable criteria
- Experience in secondary care
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other difficulties.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Dr Carolyn Harbert
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892709211
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