Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate - Neurorehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0582
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Disablement Service Centre, Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. 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.
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.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist with proven interest in neuropsychology to join our Neuropsychology Service. The post involves working with adults who have experienced a stroke and live in the Medway area.
The clinical work is undertaken mostly in clinic settings across the locality.
The post holder would be based at Medway Maritime Hospital with travel to/from Harmony House in Rochester, but would also be expected to travel to patients at their home and to care homes.
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).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out neuropsychological assessments and psychological interventions under the direct supervision of a principal clinical psychologist.
They will also work with other Assistant Psychologists already in post to deliver high-quality and responsive services within Kent.
The Kent Neuropsychology Service provides specialist neuropsychological assessments and cognitive rehabilitation.
There is a strong rehabilitation ethos and clinical psychologists working in the service have interests in a range of therapeutic approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, CBT, CFT, and Systemic Therapy.
Relationships with multidisciplinary colleagues within the Neurorehabilitation Teams are positive and supportive.
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 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.
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Upper second class honours degree (Psychology) conferring eligibility for graduate membership of British Psychology Society
Desirable criteria
- Further related academic study or post-graduate training in psychology or related field
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Good theoretical knowledge or willingness to learn about the problems experienced by, and needs of, adult stroke survivors and ways of assessing and treating these
Desirable criteria
- Proficient and confident in administration of a range of neuropsychological assessments.
Relevant experience
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate experience of assessment and treatment of people with a range of psychological needs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with an acquired brain injury or other neurological conditions.
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
- Dr Tarick Ali
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01643 833937
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