Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service is one of the largest Neuropsychology Departments in the country.  We provide neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation across Kent.  We work with a variety of health and social services teams to support the needs of adults with acquired brain injury and those with long-term neurological conditions.  

The post is based in the cosmopolitan and vibrant city of Canterbury, which boasts excellent high-speed (one hour) links to London. You will be based with community neuropsychology colleagues at Gregory House, St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury. A key aspect of this role will be to provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation. 

The service has a strong rehabilitation ethos and members of the service have interests in a range of different therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Narrative therapy, mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and systemic approaches.  The post will be mainly clinic based but will also involve home visits. 

Main duties of the job

Working with people with acquired brain injury or long term neurological conditions, and their families, living in East Kent.

Seeing people referred to the Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service in one of our clinics (Eureka, Ashford; Newington Road, Ramsgate; Gregory House, Canterbury) or at the person's home.

Providing neuropsychological assessments

Providing cognitive rehabilitation.

Providing evidenced based psychological therapies to support adjustment to diagnosis and symptom management.

Providing clinical supervision to junior members of staff, including trainee clinical psychologists.

Undertaking clinical audits and research.

Many of our department are actively involved in teaching and research.  There are ample opportunities to teach allied health professionals and in the Salomons Clinical Psychology doctorate.  Members of our service receive regular clinical, management and peer supervision and there is a commitment to ongoing training and professional development.  

Working for our organisation

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.

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