Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

NHS; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity within the Older Peoples' Psychological Service at Kent and Medway NHS Trust. The role involves working with older adults facing mental health challenges, requiring a valid UK driving licence and experience in neuropsychological assessments. Join a diverse team committed to providing excellent care.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full, valid UK driving licence.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Enhance psychological approaches for older people.
• Support Memory Assessment Service.
• Conduct service evaluations and audits.

Skills

Understanding of mental health difficulties

Ability to work with cognitive difficulties

Experience in neuropsychological assessment for dementia

Job description

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Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Older Peoples' Psychological Service, alongside the Community Mental Health teams, in the West Kent Directorate.

This post would suit someone who has a genuine interest in working therapeutically with this varied and rewarding client group. An understanding of the needs of people with mental health difficulties as well as of those living with dementia, and the ability to work with people who have cognitive difficulties, is essential.

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).

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.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the Older Peoples Psychological Services, alongside the Community Mental Health Team based in South West Kent (Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks), focussing your time in enhancing the provision of psychological approaches for Older People and also supporting the Memory Assessment Service.

The role involves multidisciplinary teamwork with other community & inpatient colleagues, drawing on a range of psychological modalities to provide a comprehensive service to older people with a wide range of complex mental health difficulties and dementia.

Experience of neuropsychological assessment for dementia is a key requirement for this post. You will be contributing to key priorities in Older People's psychological services and holding responsibility for line management & clinical supervision of a range of staff, including qualified & junior psychology & multidisciplinary (MDT) staff.

The role will also involve providing consultation to carers, families & teams, participating in multidisciplinary staff development and contributing to group work. Undertaking service evaluations & audits across the West Kent Directorate to enhance service provision of psychological interventions to older people is also a key part of the role.

The post holder will be expected to travel to other work bases, as required by the responsibilities of the post.

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 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.

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Job responsibilities

This is a varied and busy post, which will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop invaluable skills, both clinically and organisationally. We look forward to welcoming you to the team.

Please see Job Description & Person Specification for full details. This is essential reading for all applicants.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualifications

Experience

• Experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge & Skills

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

£46,148 to £60,504 a year, Dependant on experience