As a Psychological Assistant, you will provide clinical, research and administrative support to the psychological therapies, allied healthcare and probation staff in the OPD Team under their direct guidance and supervision, in order to assist in providing and monitoring the service provision within the Service Line.
Bringing to bear clinical and data analysis skills, you will be developing a role already established within the team to work closely with service users, clinical staff/ probation staff, and the wider team in supporting the delivery of a comprehensive psychology service in the units and evaluation of the services.The post will involve working closely with other agencies, including Community services and the Criminal Justice System.
The main responsibility of the post-holder is to participate in the provision of Psychological Services to offenders within the OPD service based within Kent Probation (HMPPS).
Bringing to bear clinical and data analysis skills, you will be developing a role already established within the team to work closely with service users, clinical staff/ probation staff, and the wider team in supporting the delivery of a comprehensive psychology service in the units and evaluation of the services.The post will involve working closely with other agencies, including Community services and the Criminal Justice System.
The hardest part of the job is to co-ordinate a number of inter-related, and often time consuming, tasks within the time and resource demands of the service.
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 in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
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.
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To 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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• Take an active role in coordinating and conducting initial assessments and formulations under the supervision of a qualified psychologist. Gather and collate information and reports in order to contribute to the development of risk formulations and treatment planning.
• Administer and score appropriate formal psychometric assessment instruments and other forms of assessment and compile reports and behavioural care plans as appropriate.
• Co-facilitate structured groups such as anger management, social skills, problem solving, offence specific risk reduction and other similar groups as relevant to the needs of the client population. In addition to collect and formulate information from the protocols for use in future treatment planning.
• Take part in audit, Qi, and research as well as contribute to data collection in order to improve service delivery.
• Provision of administrative support to the clinical psychologists including literature searches for relevant articles, collation of information for case conferences, new psychometric tools or planning of specific groups.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025
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