Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Rough Sleepers Senior Psychologist/Psychotherapist

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Job summary

KMPT have an exciting opportunity to come and work with the Rough Sleepers Initiative service covering West Kent and Medway.

The team work closely with West Kent and Medway Councils to enhance the homelessness services for vulnerable rough sleepers and those at risk of sleeping on the streets. The project provides the opportunity to tackle the ongoing needs of vulnerable rough sleepers who have fallen out of services, or who will not engage with traditional pathways of support and housing, often with chaotic lives and a history of offending, drug and alcohol use and being excluded from mainstream services.

With estimates ranging from 40%-80% of the rough sleeping population living with mental illness, it is a major contributory factor to people not being able to find or maintain a home. As rough sleepers average age of death is 43, we cannot let this need go unmet.

We are looking for an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist with a passion for making sure these people do not carry on living without access to appropriate support.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will....

Formulate and implement plans of brief psychologically informed treatment or management of client's mental health problems based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.

Undertake a range of psychological therapeutic interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and the ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.

Be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the assessment of service users and their families and contribute specialist psychological advice and support regarding referral decisions for mental health intervention.

Contribute highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.

Offer supervision and training to staff on trauma informed interventions.

Take a major role in evaluating the Rough Sleepers Initiative service using clinical outcome measures and by designing and undertaking service-related research and evaluation projects, as agreed with the Operational Lead.

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.

Our strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Date posted

03 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

380-WK0243

Job locations

Albion Place

23-29 Albion Place

Maidstone

ME14 5DY

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience working as a qualified specialist psychologist / psychotherapist for a minimum of one year.
Experience of working in range of mental health settings with a range of levels of disability and full range of age groups.

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or providing clinical supervision

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex highly emotive situations and those with significantly impaired communication capacities.
Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial clinical information from a range of sources integrating it into a formulation utilising a variety of psychological perspectives.
Ability to drive.

Desirable

Postgraduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and specialist research techniques appropriate for the study of psychotherapeutic process
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience working as a qualified specialist psychologist / psychotherapist for a minimum of one year.
Experience of working in range of mental health settings with a range of levels of disability and full range of age groups.

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or providing clinical supervision

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex highly emotive situations and those with significantly impaired communication capacities.
Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial clinical information from a range of sources integrating it into a formulation utilising a variety of psychological perspectives.
Ability to drive.

Desirable

Postgraduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and specialist research techniques appropriate for the study of psychotherapeutic process
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Albion Place

23-29 Albion Place

Maidstone

ME14 5DY

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Albion Place

23-29 Albion Place

Maidstone

ME14 5DY

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)