Job summary
- Main area
- Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 33.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK465
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Laurel House
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist
Band 8a
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Younger Adults Psychological Service in Mental Health Together Plus, in the East Kent Directorate.
This post would suit someone who has a genuine interest in working therapeutically with this varied and rewarding client group. An understanding of and ability to work with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties is essential.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the systematic provision of a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to working age adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties referred by the Mental Health teams within the locality.
- To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect(consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions within the service and taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in their professional practice.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development relevant to the service area.
- To be regularly responsible for providing and contributing to training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and for providing professional support and line-management to basic/senior psychologists in this specialism
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a varied and busy post, which will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop invaluable skills, both clinically and organisationally. We look forward to welcoming you to the team.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Doctoral Training in Clinical/Counselling Psycholog or its equivalent for Psychotherapists. Belonging to any of these registration bodies - HCPC, UKCP, BCP, BABCP, BACP (Level C)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Having practised at Band 7 level – 5 years +
- Clinical experience providing both individual and group interventions in the area of AMH.
- Clinical supervision training for supervision of trainees on placement.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Provide evidence-based Assessment & Treatment, and Formulation with patients with complex clinical presentations
- Relevant clinical specialist training in the skills required for the speciality area
- Contribute with psychologically informed and highly specialist teaching to local teams and nonstatutory organisations
- Provide regular training placements for clinical/counselling and psychotherapy trainees.
- Support consultation as and when required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Pantony
- Job title
- Interim Principal Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01227597111
- Additional information
Interested candidates are very welcome to contact me for an informal discussion prior to applying.
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