Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Job overview
It's an exciting time to join us: KMMH has been rated Outstanding for Caring and Good overall in our most recent CQC inspection.
We are excited to be offering an opportunity for an 8b Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist operational lead to our MHT+ Psychological Therapies Services for working age adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties in Swale.
We would be particularly keen to hear from those with experience of working with adults with severe and enduring mental health problems, those with operational and managerial experience, and those in established 8a/8b posts and ready to develop these competencies and skills. You will join a dynamic team of 5 qualified clinicians - clinical psychology, psychodynamic and Art psychotherapies.
The team holds regular sessions on peer supervision, and we have a monthly CPD space.
We operate in North Kent as a whole and have fortnightly senior leadership meetings with principal staff in Swale, Medway, and DGS to standardize, share, and learn from practice to avoid a postcode lottery culture across the North.

Main duties of the job
You will have operational lead responsibilities for the service, and manage those in the team, working closely with the Lead for North Kent.
You will have your own caseload of assessment, individual and group interventions.
Experience of Mentalization Based Psychotherapy, Structured Clinical Management and EMDR are welcome in addition to core training competencies.
Formal HEE funded training will be available for those interested. In addition to the delivery of psychological therapy you will have leadership roles supporting the Transformation, and collaborating for Psychological Therapies to deliver training and supervision to Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together + colleagues.
You will be working closely with the service manager for MHT+ and the wider team in line with the CMH Framework and the Transformation in order to develop these agendas.
As the service works closely with the wider team there is ample opportunity to learn about organisational dynamics and delivery of care.
As a senior team member you will be part of the Psychological Therapies leadership team, representing our service in local meetings, discussing appropriateness of referrals with the wider community team and influencing service delivery.
The service meets weekly for peer supervision and business/clinical governance, and has a CPD programme on a monthly basis to develop further.

Working for our organisation
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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification attached with Operational management, clinical, management of staff, teaching, supervising responsibilities.
The successful candidate will hold a doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, or equivalent for psychotherapists, experience in secondary care and management, and have membership with relevant organisation such as HCPC, BABCP, BPC (Level C) or UKCP.
At KMMH, 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.
We have good liaison with the local doctoral training course in Clinical Psychology with Chris Church University and other psychotherapy educational organizations and have a rotation of first and third-year trainees' placements available annually.

Person specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria

• Doctoral Training in Clinical/Counselling Psychology/Psychotherapy Training
• Registration to any of these bodies - HCPC, UKCP, BCP, BABCP, BACP (Level C)

Desirable criteria

• Having taken additional specialist clinical training in desired area of practice

Experience

Essential criteria

• Having practised at Band 8a level - 2 - 5 years +
• Working in NHS and understanding of systems
• Very good knowledge of leadership, management & Teams
• Extensive clinical experience providing both individual and group interventions

Desirable criteria

• Clinical experience working with severe and enduring mental health issues

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Specialist Clinical Supervision in this area of practise. And providing clinical supervision within a MultiDisciplinary Team
• Provide both psychologically informed and highly specialist teaching to local teams and nonstatutory organisations
• Conduct relevant service related Audit, Evaluation & Research in the clinical area required
• Provide regular training placements for clinical/counselling and psychotherapy trainees

Desirable criteria

• Undertaken further specialist training in supervision skills

Important Information:
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
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