Senior Therapist
1 week ago
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Therapist to join our team at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. As a Senior Therapist, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality therapeutic services to adults with complex emotional difficulties and trauma histories.
Key Responsibilities
- Co-delivering therapeutic groups with multidisciplinary team colleagues within the day programme, including small psychotherapy groups, community meetings, large groups, art therapy, drama therapy, and social therapy.
- Engaging with service users in unstructured time, such as lunch breaks, and managing a small caseload.
- Initial assessments for suitability for the programme and contributing to an evolving formulation, multidisciplinary review, and care planning for each service user.
- Co-facilitating the weekly Leavers Group and working alongside the multidisciplinary team to deliver the intensive day therapy programme, which is MBT informed.
- Care management of a small caseload and writing clinical reports.
- Effective internal and external communication.
About Us
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust is a leading provider of mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving a population of over 1.5 million people across the county. We are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones, and we are seeking a talented and dedicated individual to join our team.
Person Specification
- Specialist postgraduate training to Masters level or equivalent in Psychotherapeutic modality leading to accreditation/registration with HCPC/UKCP.
- Professional background in a mental health discipline to at least first-degree level (e.g., nursing, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, psychiatric medicine).
- Relevant specialist training in the skills required for the specialty area.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
- Evidence of further CPD training in areas relevant for the client group (MBT, DBT, EMDR therapy models, approaches for specific client groups, legislation).
- Experience of providing teaching and training to staff.
- Good experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
- Specialist experience of psychological approaches to helping people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial clinical information from a range of sources, integrating it into a formulation utilising a variety of psychological perspectives.
- Developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups.
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
- Skills in effective team working.
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