Forensic Psychology Service Lead

4 weeks ago


Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Job Overview

To be part of a multidisciplinary team providing a forensic psychology service, including assessment, intervention, and evaluations focused on rehabilitation in the community. To offer input as required to other services within the forensic and specialist learning disabilities within the Service Line.

Main Duties of the Job

1. To be responsible for the systematic provision of specialist forensic psychology services to adults with learning disabilities and complex, severe, and enduring mental health difficulties who may display challenging behavior or have offending histories.

2. To 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 judgment in their professional practice.

3. To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities (including training others) relevant to the service area.

4. To have regular responsibility for providing supervision to trainee and assistant psychologists in this specialism.

Working for Our Organisation

Come and work with us in a supportive environment where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, 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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