Senior Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

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).

About us

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.

Job 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

• Doctorate : BPS, HCPC
• Specialist training

Experience

• Years of NHS Experience
• Experience of providing reflective practice & teaching
• Experience of managing others/providing clinical supervision
• Experience of successful MDT working
• Range of psychological models & able to adapt to needs/setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.