Trainee CBT Psychological Therapist

Job overview

The Mental Health of Learning Disability Service, based in 2 hubs across Kent and Medway, is looking to recruit an Operational Team Lead to assist in the day-to-day running of the service. The post holder will, alongside one other experienced Operational Team Lead, be responsible for ensuring a safe, effective and high-quality service is delivered to patients with a learning disability and mental health needs, including behaviours that challenge, that cannot be met within mainstream mental health services, across Kent and Medway. 

You will provide operational management to a group of clinical staff, providing supervision, appraisal and supporting those staff to reach their potential and have a lead role in the recruitment and retention of staff.

You will need to have an understanding of how team performance impacts the provision of a safe and high-quality service and be able to implement and monitor processes to ensure this.