Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
About
Established in April 2006, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust is an integrated health and social care Trust specialising in the provision of mental health services throughout Kent. The Trust serves a population of approximately 1.8 million people across a mix of urban and rural areas and socio-economic groups.
We aim to provide effective, efficient and high quality care to all clients and the services provided include assessment of need, support, individual or group programmes of care, education and the promotion of mental health issues. These services are provided in a variety of locations including inpatient units, community homes, mental health centres, day treatment units and in clients' own homes. Our Care Programme Approach has encouraged clients to become fully involved in their own programme of care. This ensures that their views and wishes and those of their families and carers are reflected in their treatment of care.
Our Vision
The Trust aims to deliver quality through partnership. Creating a dynamic system of care, so people receive the right help, at the right time, in the right setting with the right outcome.
Our Values
* Respect: We value people as individuals, we treat others as we would like to be treated.
* Open: Work in a collaborative, transparent way.
* Accountable: We are professional and responsible for our actions.
* Working Together: We work together to make a difference for our service users.
* Innovative: We find creative ways to run efficient, high quality services.
* Excellence: We listen and learn to continually improve our knowledge and ways of working.
Key details
Location
Site: Gravesham Community Hospital
Address: Bath Street
Town: Gravesend
Postcode: DA110DG
Major / Minor Region: Kent
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)
Specialty
Main area: Neuropsychology / Neurorehabilitation
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Job overview
This post is an exciting opportunity for a recently qualified Clinical Psychologist interested to build on and develop their skills in clinical neuropsychology and neurorehabilitation. The position would suit someone newly qualified, or someone who brings transferable skills from another newly qualified role.
The post is based in Gravesham Community Hospital together with another Senior Clinical Psychologist and close to the Community Neurorehabilitation Team. The post is primarily clinic-based but travel to patients at home and to Care Home settings is sometimes required.
The job is diverse and rewarding, focused on developing patient-centered neuropsychological interventions for people with stroke and acquired brain injury and their families or carers living in the Dartford & Gravesend area. The clinical work will include supporting people with their emotional adjustment to changes that have occurred and offering neuropsychological assessment. Within the Kent Neuropsychology Service, there is a strong rehabilitation focus and clinicians have interests in a range of therapeutic models including Systemic models, Mindfulness, ACT, and CBT.
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* To be responsible for the systematic provision of Specialist Clinical Neuropsychology Services to stroke survivors and those with brain injury in the Dartford area working closely with the Community Neurorehabilitation team.
* To undertake high-quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions in these services making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
* To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service delivery by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
Please note, The successful applicant will become part of a friendly neuropsychology Service and would be supported in their transition into the role and supervised by another experienced Clinical Psychologist who will also be available outside of formal supervision times to offer additional guidance when needed.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To 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, the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
* To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-disciplinary assessment of stroke survivors and those with brain injury and their families.
* To contribute specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of therapeutic/intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.
* To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant individuals and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi-disciplinary team.
* When appropriate to consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of stroke survivors and those with brain injury.
* To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of cases on own case load.
“At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about 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.”
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctorate In Clinical Psychology
* HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Other relevant CPD or training in Neuropsychology
Skills and Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of working with people with neurological conditions or other relevant field such as Physical Health during training placements
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of working with people with Stroke or acquired brain injury during training or before training
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Catherine M'cdonagh
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01634833937
Additional information: Informal visits to the Neuropsychology Service welcome
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