Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Parent Infant Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9NW |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6185554/380-FR0413 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
Perinatal Mental Health Community Service
0.8 wte (location; West or North Kent)
We are excited to be able to offer a fantastic position for qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (including current trainees who are hoping to qualify this year) or Parent Infant Psychotherapist. There will be very close working with a Senior Clinical Psychologist and/or Parent Infant Psychotherapist and there will be lots of opportunity for additional support.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Psychological Practitioner to join the newly accredited and expanding specialist perinatal service. The post holder will provide qualified specialist psychological services to parents, infants and families during the perinatal period. Delivering specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice, supervision and consultation as required. The role will include active involvement in the multidisciplinary development of the specialist community perinatal mental health service. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. Training in EMDR and parent-infant approaches will be provided to the successful applicant.
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 is 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.
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)
Please see job description for full details.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024
Perinatal Mental Health Community Service
0.8 wte (location; West or North Kent)
We are excited to be able to offer a fantastic position for qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (including current trainees who are hoping to qualify this year) or Parent Infant Psychotherapist. There will be very close working with a Senior Clinical Psychologist and/or Parent Infant Psychotherapist and there will be lots of opportunity for additional support.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Psychological Practitioner to join the newly accredited and expanding specialist perinatal service. The post holder will provide qualified specialist psychological services to parents, infants and families during the perinatal period. Delivering specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice, supervision and consultation as required. The role will include active involvement in the multidisciplinary development of the specialist community perinatal mental health service. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. Training in EMDR and parent-infant approaches will be provided to the successful applicant.
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 is 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.
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)
Please see job description for full details.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024
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