Team Lead / Principal Psychotherapist

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Psychotherapist or Clinical Psychologist to join their vibrant therapeutic community in Folkestone. This role combines direct therapeutic work with team leadership and service improvement, providing a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals with complex emotional needs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in mental health psychotherapy, particularly with group work, and a commitment to relational practice. Join a supportive and innovative environment that values diversity and excellence in mental health care.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Maternity and paternity leave

Buying and selling of annual leave

Recommend a friend campaign

Paid leave for jury service

Career break options

Qualifications

• Professionally registered therapist with extensive experience in mental health psychotherapy.
• Proven team leadership expertise and experience in group therapy.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary therapy team.
• Conduct assessments and run psychotherapy groups for patients.
• Manage referrals and oversee patient flow through treatment phases.

Skills

Therapeutic group work

Team leadership

Risk assessment

Clinical assessment

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Education

Registered psychotherapist

Clinical psychologist

Counselling psychologist

Job description

Job overview
Are you a passionate and experienced Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, or Counselling Psychologist with management experience seeking a rewarding role that combines direct therapeutic work with service improvement and team leadership? Ash Eton Therapeutic Community in Folkestone is looking for a skilled clinician who will have dedicated clinical time working with our client group in a vibrant therapeutic community, whilst also holding team lead responsibilities. The service provides specialist treatment to adults with complex emotional difficulties within a supportive and innovative therapeutic community setting. We are a well-established and highly regarded service, part of the Community of Communities and recognised for our excellence in mental health care. If you are analytically trained, experienced in group therapy, and committed to relational practice, we encourage you to apply!
The ideal candidate will be a professionally qualified and registered therapist with extensive experience in mental health psychotherapy, particularly group work with adults experiencing complex personality disorders, and proven team leadership expertise. Experience in a therapeutic community setting and/or service development using co-production is highly desirable.

Main duties of the job
As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in:

• Providing clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary therapy team
• Working with colleagues to reach and maintain high quality and performance standards for the service
• Overseeing the management of referrals and flow of patients through the phases of treatment
• Advising Community Mental Health Teams and Multidisciplinary Teams on referrals, providing supervision and case consultations.
• Conducting assessments and running psychodynamic psychotherapy groups for patients preparing to join the Therapeutic Community (TC).
• Facilitating small group psychotherapy within the TC and participating in community meetings.
• Developing co-produced lecturing and training opportunities.
• Contributing to a democratic TC environment, upholding our relational practice values, including co-production and inclusivity.
• Working with transference processes and managing complex team and community dynamics.
• Managing a caseload of clients with complex needs and potential risk factors.
• Organising and prioritising your workload to maintain high-quality standards.

Deputising for the clinical lead and supporting the operational lead.

Working for our organisation
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.
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Clinical assessment of patients with complex emotional needs
• Delivery of a range of therapy groups within the therapeutic community
• Clinical case management including risk assessment and care-planning
• Line management
• Promoting effective working practices in the team that lead to high levels of performance, quality and service user satisfaction
• Monitoring and managing referrals and their flow through the phases of treatment

Person specification

Knowledge and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professionally registered psychotherapist/clinical psychologist/counselling psychologist
• Evidence of CPD relevant to the speciality
• Knowledge of therapeutic community model, principles and values

Desirable criteria

• MBT training and experience

Skills and experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 4 years post registration clinical experience
• Significant experience of therapeutic group work with people with complex emotional needs
• Experience of line management

Desirable criteria

• Therapeutic community experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to assess, create formulations and treatment plans for complex patients
• Risk assessment and management
• Team leadership skills
• Experience of conducting small and large therapy groups

Desirable criteria

• Experience of co-production
• Experience is using quality and performance data to improve clinical services

KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
Please see Apply . Apply /Pensions.aspx for more details.
Annual leave for Agenda for Change On appointment to NHS
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
After 5 years NHS service
29 days full time or pro rata if part time
After 10 years NHS service
33 days full time or pro rata if part time
Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.
Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Recommend a friend campaign If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals,
Flexible working Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave Dependant on length of NHS service
Other paid/unpaid leave This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non paid leave for career breaks

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