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Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 23 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £45,753 - £52,067 per annum Inclusive of high cost area allowance |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2024 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 6PB |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6490607/380-FR0465 |
Summary
Are you passionate about supporting individuals effected by perinatal mental health? Are you looking for a new role where you can professionally develop, whilst being supported by a friendly and experienced team?
We are excited to be able to offer a fantastic position for qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Parent Infant Psychotherapist. There will be very close working with a Senior Clinical Psychologist and/or Parent Infant Psychotherapist.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the newly accredited and expanding specialist perinatal service. You 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.
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 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.
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service policies and procedures. Training in EMDR and parent-infant approaches will be provided to the successful applicant.
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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.
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 Tuesday 6 Aug 2024
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