Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). An experienced forensic, clinical, or counselling psychologist/psychotherapist is required to join a strong multi-disciplinary team in a community Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway service providing specialist care to men and women who have personality difficulties, mental health needs, neurodiversity and forensic histories. The role will be primarily clinical, with expectation to pursue research and evaluation within the forensic field and contribute to supervision and training for other psychologists and professions. You will join a diverse and dynamic multi-disciplinary team including psychology, occupational therapy, social work and probation staff who are developing trauma-informed, recovery-centred best practice in forensic mental health. The OPD pathway includes the Psychologically Informed and Planned Environment (PIPE) Unit at Fleming House in Maidstone, a team of psychologists undertaking case consultation, formulation and joint working in probation offices across Kent, and the Kent Chiron Community IIRMS (Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service).
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist consultation/formulation and supervision to the Probation Service in the Canterbury and North Kent (Medway) PDU for work with offenders with severe and complex personality disorders.
* Provide specialist consultation/formulation and supervision to the Probation Service – East/West Kent PDU for work with offenders with severe and complex personality disorders.
* Undertake work with the Probation Service – East/West Kent PDU for offenders with severe and complex personality disorders; record and submit performance data in a timely fashion.
* Undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services, taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in professional practice.
* Ensure the clinical effectiveness of one's own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
* Be regularly responsible for providing supervision to trainee psychologists in this specialism.
* Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
About KMPT
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. We strive to provide care with kindness and compassion as standard, with everyone from cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman recognised as playing a vital role in delivering an exemplary service.
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