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Location

Dartford, Kent | United Kingdom

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Job description

A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

It’s an exciting time to join us. KMPT has been rated Outstanding for Caring and Good overall in our most recent CQC inspection. KMPT is creating an environment for equal opportunities for all.

We are looking for a full-time enthusiastic and committed senior clinical/counselling psychologists or psychotherapists to perform at a band 7, and join our well established and dynamic service in adult mental health for people who live in Dartford and the countryside surrounding areas, in Kent.

The post holders will be based at Arndale House, within the Dartford Psychological Therapies service which includes psychological clinicians of several disciplines and trainees. The Dartford Secondary Care Psychological Therapies service works closely and in collaboration with the Medway Community Mental Health team as integrated services to provide a comprehensive service to adults with complex and longstanding mental health conditions and emotional difficulties.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in providing assessment and treatment (individual and group), participating in multidisciplinary staff development and supervision, enhancing the provision of psychological therapies for adult mental health, service development and evaluation, and a take part in a monthly programme of continuing professional development. Training and supervision will be available.

➢ To be responsible for the systematic provision of a Specialist Psychology Service to clients
with complex and longstanding mental health difficulties as referred from the secondary
care mental health service within the West Kent Psychological Therapies service.
➢ To undertake high-quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative,
advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services making
autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
➢ To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by
undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
➢ To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team of the West Kent Secondary Care Community
Mental Health Team.

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.

What is High Cost Area Allowance?

The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.

As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.
• 5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)

The salary listed is inclusive of the High-Cost Area Allowance.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in providing assessment and treatment (individual and group), participating in multidisciplinary staff development and supervision, enhancing the provision of psychological therapies for adult mental health, service development and evaluation, and a take part in a monthly programme of continuing professional development. You will also be part of services preparing for the Transformation, welcoming working together with our colleagues in VCSE HEE funded Training, and internal supervision will be available.

The post holders will join a supportive and diverse psychological therapies service with 7 clinicians from clinical psychology, psychoanalytic and CBT psychotherapy. We have strong links with the South Thames Clinical Psychology Training Centre in Tunbridge Wells, attached to Christ Church University in Canterbury and our service is in the process if offering an annual rotation of both first and third year trainees on placement who join our service. These links also provide access to a wide variety of post-qualification training courses and events.

We welcome you to contact us for additional information or for an informal telephone conversation or visit. Please contact Dr Paula Maggi, Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Lead for North Kent Secondary Care Psychological Therapies service [email protected] Dr Nathan Hill, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Operational manager on [email protected]

This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Mar 2024

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