Group therapist within a democratic therapeutic community for adults with complex emotional difficulties and trauma histories. Responsible for co-delivering therapeutic groups with MDT colleagues within the day programme e.g. small psychotherapy groups, community meetings, large groups, art therapy, drama therapy, social therapy. To engage with TC members in unstructured time such as lunch breaks. Manage a small caseload. Initial assessments for suitability for the programme.

***Note: Applicants are strongly advised to arrange a visit to the TC before interview***

Main duties of the job

Service users will have been assessed by an experienced therapist and completed 1 year in a weekly psychotherapy group before joining the TC, Responsible for contributing to an evolving formulation, MDT review and care planning for each TC member.

Co-facilitating the weekly Leavers Group.

Work alongside the MDT to deliver the intensive day TC therapy programme, which is MBT informed.

Care management of a small caseload.

Writing clinical reports.

Effective internal and external communication

About us

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 across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

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.

We will offer weekly clinical supervision, a weekly Staff Process Group and involvement with the Community of Communities Quality Network. There are opportunities for development including MBT training, and involvement in audit and research.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Maintenance of a safe and containing therapeutic environment
• Delivering large and small group, MBT informed psychotherapy groups
• Engaging in the routine holding structures of the TC such as community meetings
• Clinical assessment and formulation of complex service users with a history of trauma
• Clinical risk assessment and positive risk management
• Collaborative, patient centred care planning
• Safeguarding service users and vulnerable adults and children within their network.
• Therapeutic engagement with service users in informal spaces throughout the day in the TC, such as lunchtime, breaks and social spaces
• Clinical care management
• Maintenance of good quality, contemporaneous clinical records
• Effective discharge planning

Person Specification

Training/Registration/Qualifications

Essential

• oSpecialist post graduate training to Masters level or equivalent in Psychotherapeutic modality leading to accreditation/registration with HCPC/UKCP
• oProfessional background in a mental health discipline to at least first-degree level (for example, nursing, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, psychiatric medicine
• oRelevant specialist training in the skills required for the specialty area

Desirable

• Evidence of further CPD training in areas relevant for the client group (e.g. MBT, DBT, EMDR therapy models, approaches for specific client groups, legislation)

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of providing teaching and training to staff.
• oGood 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 including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• oSpecialist experience of psychological approaches to helping people with severe and enduring mental health problems (e.g. those with psychoses, severe depression, personality disorders, and severe abuse)
• oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• oGood experience of working with individuals, couples, families and groups

Desirable

• Experience of MBT model
• Experience of TCs

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• oAbility 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.
• oA developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups.
• oAbility to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
• oSkills in effective team working
• oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant registration bodies.

Desirable

• Good understanding of working with trauma

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Ash Eton Therapeutic Community, Folkestone

Ash Eton, Radnor Park West

Folkestone

CT19 5HL

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