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Principal Clinical Psychologist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
| Posting date: | 26 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 August 2024 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME7 5NY |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6411865/380-FR0467 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist with managerial and clinical experience to join our Neuropsychology Service. The post involves working with adults who have experienced a stroke in the Medway Towns (Chatham Rochester, Gillingham). The clinical work is undertaken mostly in clinic settings although some home visits, travel to care homes and the local community stroke rehabilitation setting will be required. The post holder will also provide line management and clinical supervision to other staff within the service and work closely with the neuropsychology senior management team to deliver high-quality and responsive services within Kent. As a service, we actively pursue opportunities to contribute to relevant neuropsychology projects and collaborations regionally and nationally and offer opportunities to develop special interests and expertise.
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).
The Kent Neuropsychology Service provides specialist assessment, rehabilitation and psychological therapy to people with stroke, acquired brain injury and long-term neurological conditions across Kent.
The post holder will provide highly specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment of adults with stroke referred to the Kent Neuropsychology Service,
The post holder will work closely with the Medway Stroke Team who are positive and supportive of Neuropsychology .
The post holder will formulate and implement plans of specialist neuropsychological treatment of stroke based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
Undertake a range of psychological therapeutic interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models
Be responsible for providing a specialist neuropsychological perspective into the multi-disciplinary assessment of adults with stroke and their families.
Work as a member of Kent Neuropsychology Service
Be responsible for clinical supervision and professional management of other Psychology 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 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.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Sunday 11 Aug 2024
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