Clinical Psychologist Preceptorship post | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9PH |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6156588/380-FR0411 |
Summary
Perinatal Mental Health Community Service
1 wte (location; West or North Kent)
We are excited to be able to offer a fantastic preceptorship development position for newly qualified Band 7 Clinical Psychologists (those who have qualified in the last 2 years) and current trainees who are hoping to qualify this year. We would invite applications from those who are looking for the opportunity for career development and wish to build the specialist skills and experience in line with the roles set out below. There will be very close working with a Senior Clinical Psychologist and there will be lots of opportunity for additional support.
Following successful completion of a preceptorship programme (formal log of competencies), usually over a period of 18 –36 months, the Band 7 position will lead to a Band 8a. If you are interested in this position or have any questions, we would welcome and encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion and/or to meet the team.
The Perinatal Mental Health Community Service (PMHCS; formerly known as MIMHS) is a specialist service that covers the whole of Kent and Medway. PMHCS specialises in the assessment, diagnosis and short-term treatment of women aged 18 and above who are affected by a moderate to severe mental health illness in the preconception, antenatal and postnatal period.
As perinatal mental health is an expanding area of development, there is fantastic potential for career development and training opportunities. There will be the opportunity to develop specialist competencies in evidence-based models (e.g. tf-CBT, EMDR,) for individual therapy as well as specialist parent-infant interventions including Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) and Video Feedback Intervention to promote positive parenting (VIPP) as well as developing group interventions.
In line with the long-term plan, the service will be developing its interventions with couples, co-parents and working with families up to 24 months. It is an exciting time to join our teams as each perinatal service has recently been awarded national funding for the expansion of their services.
• Psychological assessment
• Psychological formulations
• Psychological treatment groups
• Individual therapeutic interventions
• Liaison with other agencies responsible for and working with, mothers, infants and families
during the perinatal period.
• Family interventions
• Reflective Practice/Case discussion with staff
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.
The main clinical work undertaken is to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers, birthing people and their babies and families in the community. With support from senior professionals within the team, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to further develop and shape psychological services for adults with perinatal mental health. There are excellent opportunities to develop your own interests, opportunities for involvement in high-quality research, service audit and evaluation with our research support team, as well as, group work, training, supervision, and developing service-user engagement.
The post holder will be based within one of our three multi-disciplinary teams located in the East Kent, West Kent, North Kent and Medway areas who all provide high-quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist perinatal interventions. There may be very occasional need to support the other localities.
The successful applicant will also be part of the expanding friendly and supportive psychological therapies team which includes senior clinical psychologists, parent-infant psychotherapists, and assistant psychologists.
We would invite enthusiastic and self-motivated candidates to apply. We encourage and support supervision and have excellent continuing professional development and leadership development opportunities. We have a close relationship with the local clinical psychology training course and offer specialist and research placements. Drivers licence is essential.
Please see job description for full details.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
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