Job summary
- Main area
- AAEDS
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-CED045
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Courtyard/Georges Turle House
- Town
- Canterbury/Maidstone
- Salary
- £28,392 - £31,157 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
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
As an Assistant Psychologist you will provide clinical, research and administrative support to the psychological therapies staff in the all-age eating disorder service under their direct guidance and supervision, in order to assist in providing and monitoring the service provision within the Service Line.
This role can be based at either Canterbury or Maidstone.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a member of the Kent and Medway All-age Eating Disorders team. The post holder will be required to identify, assess and manage people who present with a range of eating disorder issues. The post holder will be a member of the team and have support of other team members in the management of these cases. The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in team meetings.
The post holder will support people and enhance the professional psychological care within the service, across all sectors of care, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise. To work according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
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
- An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities.
- Undertaking audits/data collection
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- An understanding of and interest in the needs and difficulties of people with eating disorders.
- Excellent IT and reporting skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience using RIO
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
- Susie Greenwood
- Job title
- Clinical and Strategic Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 300 1980
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