Psychological Therapist

2 weeks ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

The post-holder will work within the Psychological Staff Support team to provide psychological assessment and evidence-based treatments for staff members experiencing depression and/or anxiety or other common mental health problems arising from, and impacting, their role within the Trust.

An understanding of work-related stressors and the wider psychological support offers across Kent and Medway, along with experience of the issues that present to Occupational Health, Organizational Development and Employee Relations processes would be an advantage.

The post holder will be expected to work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
1. To provide high Psychological / high intensity CBT services to adults with moderate to acute mental health problem
2. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedure
3. To deliver direct and indirect staff support interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines, within agreed activity levels and model, meeting required key performance indicators (KPIs)
4. To promote wellbeing and social inclusion
5. To work flexibly and in accordance with service demands. This may include occasional, planned out of hours drop ins or clinics to accommodate the needs of the Hospital staff and intermittently driving to various satellite sites where other community services may be based
6. To work to the agreed number of clinical contacts per week as set by the Team Lead

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

**Interview Date**: TBC

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