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| Title: | Various - see description |
| Employer: | Kent and Medway NHS |
| Description: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Secondary Care Mental Health Services in Medway Focusing on the patient can often mean looking at the wider picture. We believe in offering high quality face-to-face care, but we also expect our Psychologists to contribute to the development of the service. We provide a full range of mental health and other services to 1.6 million people across Kent and Medway. Substantial new investment from the PCT in the psychological services of Medway Directorate for Secondary Care Adult Mental Health and Older People’s Mental Health means we’re able to take innovative approaches to enhancing our psychological treatments services. That’s why your ideas and insights are so important. The Psychological services are committed to providing support and excellent supervision and to staff deveopment. You can expect flexible working hours and solid administrative support. We have good links with the Christchurch Canterbury University Doctoral Training Course in Clinical Psychology based at David Salomon’s House to which we regularly provide clinical placements to clinical psychologists in training As a specialist in your field, you will have a doctorate-level or equivalent BPS approved qualification in clinical or counselling psychology and substantial clinical experience. You will hold HPC registration and are likely to be Chartered. Adult Mental Health Services Consultant Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist Band 8c: £53,256 - £65,657 p.a. Ref V129 By providing excellent professional and clinical leadership within the Secondary Care AMH Psychology Service, you will play a significant role in the development of the services. You will provide direct highly skilled clinical psychology input to complex clients presenting with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and you will deliver a highly professional consultative service to the in-patient and community teams. You will manage Clinical Psychology staff in the intake team, CMHTs and on wards, and Psychological Practitioners in Specialist Psychotherapy (CBT, Family Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy). The total staff group is currently 11 posts. With the 2007 amendment of the Mental Health Act (1983), you will be expected to take on the exciting new clinical leadership role with the opportunity to train for the statutory role of Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician. A successful record of supervising trainees and qualified staff and proven leadership skills are essential. Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Specialist In CBT Band 8b: £44,258 - £54,714 p.a. Ref V128 Specialising in cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT), you will be managing and providing clinical leadership for a specialist service covering the community mental health teams for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. You will be managing two other specialist posts in the cognitive behavioural therapy service and be part of a wider secondary care adult mental health service in which there are 13 posts. You will need to evidence having achieved (or nearly achieved) BABCP accreditation in CBT and have good expertise of supervision within this framework. Basic Grade/Senior Clinical Psychologist Band 7: £29,789 - £39,273 p.a. or Band 8a: £37,996 - £45,596 p.a. depending on experience Ref V127 Working in the busy Medway Assessment and Short Term Treatment Service (MASTT), you will be supported by a Principal Clinical Psychologist already in the service. You will be working in a multi-disciplinary team setting and providing a specialist psychological assessment and brief treatment to adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Older People’s Mental Health Services Senior/Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist Band 7: £29,789 - £39,273 p.a. or Band 8a: £37,996 - £45,596 p.a. depending on experience Ref V127 This post offers an exciting opportunity to be part of the first team in the UK to address the requirements of the National Dementia Strategy to enable better care of people with dementia in Acute Hospitals. Working part-time in a multi-disciplinary team for liaison services to the acute hospital you will be involved with providing an assessment and short term treatment service to people with dementia and their families , as well as participating in staff training to raise standards of care. The other half of the post will be working as part of the Community Mental Health Team for Older People where you will join five other psychology staff to develop a comprehensive psychology service for older people with functional and organic problems. An interest in group based therapies will be required. Graduate Assistant Clinical Psychologist Band 5: £20,710 - £26,839 p.a. Ref V126 A graduate psychologist with a proven interest in working with older people is required to assist in the work of four qualified clinical psychologists in the Community Mental Health Team for Older People. The service is innovative and busy, and you will be required to help with group work to support people with dementia, to assist in some therapy work with older people with emotional difficulties and participate in research and audit projects. A good knowledge of research procedures and computer based SPSS packages are needed. All posts are available full time, but part time arrangements will be considered. For an informal chat, please call Jos Kerkvliet, Associate Director and Lead for Psychological Practice in Medway on 01634 833937 or Alison Kirkpatrick, Head of Secondary Care on 01634 382080. If your application is successful, you will be notified by e-mail. Therefore, please ensure that you regularly check your NHS jobs account. TO APPLY: We encourage applicants to apply on-line – go to www.kmpt.nhs.uk Completed applications by: 28th February 2010. Interviews to be held in March 2010. Employment in these posts are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau. Working Towards Equal Opportunities |
| Working Hours: | Full-time |
| Salary: | see description |
| Location: | South East |
| Closing Date: | 28/Feb/2010 |
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| Address: | [not recorded] |
Further Details | |
| Contact Name: | Jos Kerkvliet |
| Title: | Associate Director and Lead for Psychological Practice |
| Contact Telephone No: | 01634 833937 |
| Website Address: | http://www.kmpt.nhs.uk |
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