Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to employ an Assistant Psychologists to deliver the Clinical Care Pathways in KMPT’s North Kent Directorate on a 12 months fixed contract. Intent on bringing innovative ideas into practice, ‘Initial Interventions’ is an evidence based clinical interventions delivered across Kent’s Secondary Care Mental Health Services but the new posts will be expected to deliver this Initial Intervention for the population in North Kent secondary care and in Mental Health Together. With a focus on psychologically informed interventions, these roles play a significant part in delivering a brief manualized intervention known as ‘Initial Interventions' under the supervision of qualified psychological practitioners.

You will be part of a dedicated psychological team delivering ii and will have focused clinical supervision from an experienced psychological practitioner. You will have plenty of scope and backing to develop your own clinical practice with a chance to input into ii research and evaluation.

You will be working closely with a group of 6 Assistant Psychologists in the North Kent Directorate – two in the DGS CMHT, and 4 within Medway & Swale CMHT. You will be expected to work on your own and deliver Initial Interventions in both individual and group formats, for which you will receive training and weekly supervision.

Main duties of the job

To participate in the provision of direct clinical work through the delivery of manualized psychologically informed structured interventions as part of Psychological Services to adults with mental health difficulties within the community & recovery service line of Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

In particular:

To 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.

To undertake other structured therapeutic psychological interventions in an identified service or services using own independent initiative within guidelines provided by a qualified psychologist.

To undertake clinical 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.