Applied Psychologist/ CBT TherapistinMaidstoneinMaidstonePUBLISHED THU 20 MAR 2025
Your expertise will be crucial in providing psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions to individuals aged 18 and above, while also training and supporting non-psychologically trained staff. You’ll collaborate with experienced colleagues in a supportive environment centred on the CBT/3rd wave approach, ensuring you have the backing you need to thrive. If you're passionate about making a difference in people's lives and enjoy guiding others on their journey of recovery, we’d love to hear from you!
To embark on this fulfilling career, you’ll need a full, valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes. If you're ready to create a positive impact in your community while enjoying a rewarding career, apply today and be part of something transformative at Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust.
Our Home treatment teams have been awarded significant new funds to expand their service provision. This includes a number of new psychological professions posts for HTTs in Kent and Medway.
The teams are based in Canterbury, Gillingham, Dartford. All posts are for a minimum of 3 days per week (0.6wte), we welcome applications for full time work.
The key roles of the positions is to provide psychological assessment and treatment of individuals in acute mental health crisis, to provide specialist consultation, training and supervision to non-psychologically trained clinical staff in evidence based psychological interventions.
You will be closely supported in this by senior psychological therapy colleagues, as well as those from other clinical backgrounds.
The team has a strong CBT/3rd wave focus and we would particularly welcome applications from individuals who share experience in these models of working.
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 2.
To participate in the provision of Psychological Practice to adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, aged 18 and upwards, within the localities served by Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
In particular:
To be responsible for the systematic provision of a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to working age adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions within the service and taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in their professional practice.
To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development relevant to the service area.
To be regularly responsible for providing and contributing to training placements for trainee applied psychologists and for providing professional support and guidance to basic/senior psychologists in this specialism.
About us
1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methodologies and integrating it into a psychological formulation of the client and the psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.
2. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of clients mental health problems based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
- 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 and the context and the ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
- To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the assessment of service users and their families and contribute specialist psychological advice and support regarding referral decisions for mental health intervention.
- To contribute highly specialist psychological advice to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or 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 clients and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk.
- To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
- To take substantial professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional judgment with regard to their professional practice.
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