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The post-holder will be a qualified fully registered HCPC Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for working in this area. As part of the QNIC recommended structure for inpatient CYP units, we are recruiting psychology posts into our Kent & Medway Adolescent Hospital MDT. The post holder will work very closely with Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services across inpatient and community in Kent NELFT, the Kent and Sussex provider collaborative and other stakeholders. The post holder will work very closely with the Kent NELFT Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service, which offers specialist DBT assessments and interventions to YP and their families who are referred.
The post holder will be part of the ward MDT and will link with the Intensive Home Treatment team to ensure a smooth pathway for CYP between inpatient and community flow. The post holder will facilitate the therapeutic component of the ward programme with the MDT to ensure the clinical model is delivered with senior members of the Psychological Professions team.
The postholder will join a thriving psychological professions team across comprehensive CAMHS (inpatient and community). We have strong links with our local psychology training institute and ongoing NHSE training for workforce expansion and upskilling.
Responsibilities
* To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.
* Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists and trainees across the services.
* To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.
* To undertake a range of clinical work, assessment work and parenting support.
* To contribute to audit and research.
* To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.
* To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.
Our Values 2025-2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co‑produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
* We are kind.
* We are respectful.
* We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Induction
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop‑in sessions focussing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Lesley Hanney
Job title: Clinical and Strategic Lead
Email: lesley.hanney@nelft.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07976737765
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