Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Expected to have achieved your Qualification within 2 years of commencement in your role.
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 380-FR0656
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broadview
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Psychologist in training
NHS AfC: Band 7
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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Job overview
To provide clinical, research and administrative support to the psychological therapies staff in community forensic services, under their direct guidance and supervision, in order to assist in providing and monitoring the service provision within the Directorate.
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Main duties of the job
Administer and score appropriate formal psychometric assessment instruments and other forms of assessment and compile reports and careplans as appropriate.
Facilitate individual and group based offence based intervention and structured groups such as forensic risk reduction, emotion regulation, thinking skills and other similar groups as relevant to the needs of the patient population, under direct supervision of a qualified psychologist. In addition, to collect and formulate information from the protocols for use in future treatment planning.
Involvement in audit and research as required, and activities designed to improve quality within the service. Assist in co-ordinating work experience / shadowing opportunities for external psychology graduates.
As a Psychologist in training, you will have regular performance review meetings and be expected to have achieved your Qualification within 2 years of commencement in your role.
The ideal candidate will already be working towards becoming a chartered Forensic, Counselling or Clinical Psychologist and be at least on year into studying for this Doctorate Qualification. You will also need to have experience of working with mentally disordered offenders and experience of undertaking research and collation and evaluation of data.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
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. And 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 doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To co-ordinate a number of inter-related, and often time consuming, tasks within the time and resource demands of the service.
As a Psychologist in training, you will have regular performance review meetings and be expected to have achieved your Qualification within 2 years of commencement in your role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- • Minimum of Upper Second-Class degree in Psychology. Expertise within the specialism, experience of working in forensic mental heal settings.
- • At least 1 years’ experience of working towards obtaining chartership as a Forensic /Counselling / Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- • MSc in applied psychology desirable.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in working with people with offending behaviour histories.
- • Experience of working within community mental health teams, and / or the Criminal Justice System
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with people with learning disability and/or mental health problems
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Experience of using structured assessments and developing formulations
- • Ability to cope with sensitive disclosures from patients / family members, i.e. sexual abuse victimisation and other highly distressing information, and manage potential challenging behaviour
- • Ability to plan an organise workload effectively
- • Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive clinical information
Desirable criteria
- • Some knowledge of literature relating to mental health / learning disability/autism and behavioural or cognitive approaches
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Wilson
- Job title
- Principal Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07766420165
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