Assistant Psychologist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

KMPT Forensic services specialise in the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders, serving the county of Kent and a population of approximately 1.5 million.

The main responsibility of the post-holder is to participate in the provision of Psychological Services to people with offending histories and / or behaviours that challenge within the Low Secure Learning Disability and Mental Health Services in Dartford.

Bringing to bear clinical and data analysis skills, you will be developing a role already established within the team to work closely with service users, ward staff, and the wider team in supporting the delivery of a comprehensive psychology service in the units and evaluation of the services.The post will involve working closely with other agencies, including Community services and the Criminal Justice System.

0.5 days per week will be dedicated to supporting research, QI and service evaluation projects within the service.

The hardest part of the job is to co-ordinate a number of inter-related, and often time consuming, tasks within the time and resource demands of the service.

During this 12 month fixed term contract, the post-holder will provide clinical, research and administrative support to the psychological therapies staff in the forensic and specialist inpatient learning disabilities services under their direct guidance and supervision, in order to assist in providing and monitoring the service provision within the Service Line.

o have a minimum of an upper second class degree in Psychology (2i)

o be able to demonstrate an ability to work independently and as part of a team

o have experience of undertaking research and collation and evaluation of data

o have a MSc in research, psychology or criminology

Previous experience of working in mental health services or forensic services would be an advantage., Disability Confident
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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 3,800 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.