Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist
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An exciting opportunity has arisen within Thanet Children and Young Persons Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) in the East 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 and ability to work with Children and Young People with severe and complex mental health difficulties is essential.
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.
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.
Whilst driving is not essential for this role, it is desirable as there will be travel required in the Community.
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Role Description
To be responsible for the systematic provision of a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to Children and Young People with severe and enduring mental health difficulties referred by the Mental Health teams within the locality.
- To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions within the service and taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in their professional practice.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development relevant to the service area.
- To be regularly responsible for providing and contributing to training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and for providing professional support and line-management to basic/senior psychologists in this specialism
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.
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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.
Contact for Further Details
- Name: Tafadzwa Mushunje
- Job Title: Integrated Team Manager
- Email Address: tafadzwa.mushunje@nelft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0300 300 1983
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