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Job summary

Main area
Psychotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
4 years (Fixed-term training post)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
380-CED038
Employer
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Highlands House
Town
Tunbridge Wells
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust logo

Specialist Trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Band 6

 

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.

Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us

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 are looking for an enthusiastic Specialist Child Psychotherapist Trainee to join our friendly, thriving and energetic service, based in Tunbridge Wells CYPMHS.
 
The post is fully funded by Health Education England. Funding will be provided for salary, analysis, training  (including intensive case supervision) and travel expenses.

The post is open to British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) trainees in the beginning stages  of the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA) doctoral training.

Applicants must be ready to embark on intensive clinical work.

Main duties of the job

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist care pathway for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.

To undertake a range of generic clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.

To contribute to audit and research.

To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.

To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall CYPMHS framework and the Trust’s policies and procedures.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria
  • To have MA status, and to have been accepted onto the full clinical training at doctoral level at IPCAPA.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial experience of working with children and young people across the age range on a professional basis.
  • Personal suitability (e.g. reflective, mature and responsible).
  • To maintain eligibility for registration as a Trainee member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jessica Gudgeon
Job title
Integrated Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 300 1992
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