Job summary
To provide strategic professional leadership to the SCPT provision within CRCG, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need, interpreting professional policies and ensuring that the service operates at the highest level of quality and current best practice, with research and development a major responsibility and taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole.
To be responsible for the operational management of the SCPT provision, holding a delegated budget (from the Lead Psychologist) and providing line management support to the staff within the service.
To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with the practice of psychological therapies and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to other psychological practitioners.
Main duties of the job
To lead a large multi-professional staff team across Kent in developing and maintaining the highest standards of formal psychological therapy, developing and implementing service policy to integrate the provision of different models and modalities of intervention in an effective way with other tiers of psychological services and with the mental health services as a whole.
The post forms part of the Community Recovery Management Team the successful applicant will work with the rest of the Management Team to develop community services.
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 across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are delighted to be recruiting an experienced psychological practitioner to the Lead for Psychological Practice post for the Community Mental Health Teams and Personality Disorder Services.
As part of the care group senior management team you will be pivotal in supporting current developments such as the implementation and embedding of the Clinical Care Pathways. You will also be key in developing multi-disciplinary working and will work closely with the Clinical Director and Professional Leads to realise this across community services.
As the Lead for Psychological Practice you will be essential in supporting the Kent & Medway system in the implementation of the Community Mental Health Framework. You will be expected to work across the system to ensure a seamless transition for people needing to access psychological interventions at all levels.
Cross care group working is crucial for smooth transitions and high quality, safe patient care and you would be expected to work with other care group colleagues to guarantee that this as a priority.
We welcome applications from psychological practitioner colleagues from across the organisation who want to be part of leading the Community Mental Health Teams and Personality Disorder Services.
We will work with the successful applicant to agree a new job plan for their new leadership role including clinical and leadership commitments.
Please see job description for full details.
Important - all applicants please note:
This is a professional leadership post graded at AfC Band 8d. KMPT is currently embracing changes to the way in which we deliver, organise and structure our services in the context of the Community Mental Health Framework. As a result, the existing and current portfolio of this post may be subject to change in the coming months. Despite these changes and their potential impact on the exact portfolio of this post it will remain a professional leadership post graded at AfC Band 8d. Please feel free to discuss this with us in advance of applying or, if shortlisted, at interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are delighted to be recruiting an experienced psychological practitioner to the Lead for Psychological Practice post for the Community Mental Health Teams and Personality Disorder Services.
As part of the care group senior management team you will be pivotal in supporting current developments such as the implementation and embedding of the Clinical Care Pathways. You will also be key in developing multi-disciplinary working and will work closely with the Clinical Director and Professional Leads to realise this across community services.
As the Lead for Psychological Practice you will be essential in supporting the Kent & Medway system in the implementation of the Community Mental Health Framework. You will be expected to work across the system to ensure a seamless transition for people needing to access psychological interventions at all levels.
Cross care group working is crucial for smooth transitions and high quality, safe patient care and you would be expected to work with other care group colleagues to guarantee that this as a priority.
We welcome applications from psychological practitioner colleagues from across the organisation who want to be part of leading the Community Mental Health Teams and Personality Disorder Services.
We will work with the successful applicant to agree a new job plan for their new leadership role including clinical and leadership commitments.
Please see job description for full details.
Important - all applicants please note:
This is a professional leadership post graded at AfC Band 8d. KMPT is currently embracing changes to the way in which we deliver, organise and structure our services in the context of the Community Mental Health Framework. As a result, the existing and current portfolio of this post may be subject to change in the coming months. Despite these changes and their potential impact on the exact portfolio of this post it will remain a professional leadership post graded at AfC Band 8d. Please feel free to discuss this with us in advance of applying or, if shortlisted, at interview.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Psychology
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- Relevant advanced specialist training/qualifications in the skills relevant to the specialty area judged to meet BPS standards for consultant grade by National External Assessment
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical /counselling psychologist for a minimum of six years, including substantial post-qualification highly specialist level experience within the specialty.
- Substantial training and experience supervising Doctoral psychology trainees.
- Sound management skills and experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Psychology
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- Relevant advanced specialist training/qualifications in the skills relevant to the specialty area judged to meet BPS standards for consultant grade by National External Assessment
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical /counselling psychologist for a minimum of six years, including substantial post-qualification highly specialist level experience within the specialty.
- Substantial training and experience supervising Doctoral psychology trainees.
- Sound management skills and experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
