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Are you interested in improving care for people with a diagnosis, or traits of, personality disorder/Complex Emotional Difficulties (CED)?
Are you a registered mental health clinician?
Do you like to innovate and lead on new developments?
Do you believe in working in partnership with people with Lived Experience?
If so, then come and join this exciting new service.
KMPT is growing its community services for people with CED and would like to invite you to join this new service. The Service User Network (SUN) is providing regular groups, both in person and online, facilitated in partnership with people with Lived Experience. The groups aim to help those who experience CED and are a new addition to this care pathway. The service model promotes open access and inclusivity, and is embedded in local communities. It is an innovative and exciting development in local mental health care, with an enthusiastic, creative and supportive team. Please do get in touch for a conversation to find out more if you are interested.
We are seeking a band 6 practitioner to join the team.
A professional qualification is required for the role, such as Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Associate Psychologist, Social Work, or other mental health profession e.g. Arts Therapist, Psychotherapist, or Counselling Psychologist. You will also have experience of, and interest in, group facilitation.
This is a full-time post but applications to work part time are also welcomed.
* The provision of SUN groups co-facilitated with SUN lived Experience facilitators across Kent, both in person and online including evening sessions.
* Lead on production of RASP plans, manage safe clinically effective care
* Support the development of a group culture that is in keeping with SUN and Therapeutic Community ethos of support, inclusion, safety, and responsibility.
* Support management and supervision of Lived Experience
* Work in collaboration with other colleagues and service in the pathway providing services to people who are experiencing complex mental health problems including escalation for additional intervention if required.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
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.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cathy Bowen Job title: Team Leader, Service user Network (SUN) Email address: cathybowen@nhs.net Telephone number: 07707152244
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