Consultant Psychologist
3 weeks ago
Job overview
Women’s Outreach Service
2 year secondment/fixed term post opportunity
Forensic Consultant Psychologist 8C
Hours 37.5
Monday – Friday 9-5
Work base negotiable Kent/Surrey/Sussex
Summary
KMPT are pleased to offer a 2 year secondment working within the Women’s Outreach Service. The women's outreach service is a 2 year pilot project that has been developed as part of the women's secure blended services in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex secure care pathway (KSS). This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in leading and shaping a new service to improve outcomes for women.
The aims of the women’s service are to reduce the number of women placed within secure beds who do not benefit from secure care. To ensure that that principle of placement within the least restrictive environment is maintained and work with others to identify potential alternatives including effective community-based options and to benchmark services for women within the collaborative against known best practice nationally.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing additional support to women referred from Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), and prison healthcare services where it is possible to support the care and treatment and subsequent discharge without the need to admit into a secure inpatient service supporting the principle of provision of care in the least restrictive environment.
You will provide highly specialist psychological assessments and formulation, undertake risk assessment and management, be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist interventions and work collaboratively with partners. Provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to others.
The successful candidate will be HCPC registered with a master’s degree award of the BPS qualification in forensic psychiatry or equivalent. Have significant forensic experience including working with women in a forensic setting and have extensive experience of providing successful clinical leadership with a multi-disciplinary health provider context.
Working for our organisation
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 3,700 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.
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