Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Clinical Psychologist/ Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist/Family Therapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-CED044-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Courtyard
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist/ Counselling Psychologist/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.
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
You will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term CYPMHS input and specialist psychological treatments.
You will be responsible for all specialist psychological assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CYPMHS.
Main duties of the job
- To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
- Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists across the locality teams in CYPMHS.
- 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 clinical work, assessment work and parenting support.
- 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 framework CYPMHS 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.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
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Person specification
Qualifications and Registrations
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy)
- To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, AFT, ACP)
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Quality Improvement Projects
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
- Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs. (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma)
- Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
- Experience of using observation (e.g. In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children
- Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person
Desirable criteria
- Experience delivering reflective practice
Knowledge, Skills, Training
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
- Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
- Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings
- Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside CAMHS
- Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work Desirable criteria Maximum score 2
Desirable criteria
- Experience leading an MDT
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Nolan
- Job title
- Integrated Team Manager- Maidstone CYPMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003001990
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