Job summary
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, psychodrama, social therapy. To engage with TC members in unstructured time such as lunch breaks. Manage a small caseload.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
