Mental Health Clinician

NHS; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health care provider in Maidstone seeks a dedicated professional to facilitate peer support groups focused on personality disorders. The role includes supporting service users in developing plans, managing group culture, and conducting administrative tasks. Applicants must have psychological qualifications and prior experience with personality disorders. Join an innovative team aiming to enhance mental health care in local communities with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with personality disorder.
• Facilitating groups in a mental health environment.
• Conducting risk assessments for people with personality disorder.
• Experience with reflective practice.

Responsibilities

• Co-facilitate SUN groups across Kent and Medway, both in-person and online.
• Support service users with developing Resource and Support Plans (RASPs).
• Cultivate a group culture aligned with SUN values.
• Assist in service development in collaboration with users.
• Manage variety of administrative tasks for service operations.
• Collaborate to provide additional support as needed.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Audit / evaluation

Education

Relevant qualification and registration

Job description

Are you interested in improving care for people with a diagnosis, or traits of, personality disorder/Complex Emotional Difficulties (CED)?

Do you like to innovate and lead on new developments?

Do you believe in working in partnership with people with Lived Experience?

If so, this post could be for you.

As a recent addition to the CED care pathway, the Service User Network (SUN) provides face-to-face and online peer support groups for those who experience CED. The service model promotes open access and inclusivity, and is embedded in local communities.

It is an innovative and exciting development in local mental health care, with an enthusiastic, creative and supportive team.

Groups are run with Lived Experience Facilitators.

A combination of working from home, from community venues across Kent and Medway and The Brenchley Unit.

Main duties of the job

• The provision of SUN groups co-facilitated with Lived Experience facilitators across Kent and Medway, both in person and online including evenings and weekends.
• Support service users to develop Resource and Support Plans (RASPs).
• Support the development of a group culture that is in keeping with the SUN and Therapeutic Community ethos of support, inclusion, safety, and responsibility.
• Support the team to develop the service including co-production with service users.
• Complete a variety of administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running and evaluation of the service
• Work in collaboration with other colleagues and service in the pathway providing services to people who are experiencing complex mental health problems including escalation for additional intervention if required.

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).

About us

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for details of the job and the responsibilities.

We are serious about diversity and 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification and registration

Experience

• Working with people with personality disorder
• Facilitating groups within a mental health setting
• Risk assessment and management of people with personality disorder
• Experience of reflective practice

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Audit / evaluation

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.