Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent: Senior Manager on Call
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-AC0767
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QEQM - Ramsgate / Kent wide
- Town
- Margate
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychologist/Psychotherapist and Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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.
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
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
We are excited to recruit to a full time Band 8c Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to take on the Clinical Lead for Older Adult Acute Psychological Therapies Services across Kent and Medway.
The role will be responsible for leading the safe and effective psychological practice across the older adult psychiatric wards, and leading an expert range of psychological practitioners.
These inpatient services consist of a team of psychological practitioners of different disciplines providing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary service to older adults across different wards in Kent and Medway.
This is an increasingly well established team of clinicians that has consistently attracted new, innovative and dedicated staff. As such the post holder will benefit from leading a highly regarded range of older adult experts.
We have strong links with the South Thames Clinical Psychology Training Centre, attached to Canterbury Christ Church University, and offer training placements to clinical trainees as well as other Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy training courses. These links also provide access to a variety of post-qualification training courses and events.
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
To provide professional and clinical leadership in the provision of Psychological Practice to older adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties on inpatient psychiatric wards, within the localities served by Kent & Medway Mental Health Trust.
In particular:
- To ensure the planning and development of a strategic response to service need, interpreting professional policies and ensuring that the service operates at the highest level of quality and current best practice and taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service system as a whole.
- To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with psychological practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to other psychological practitioners and MDT staff.
- To lead on psychological practice in the Service.
- The post holder will be expected to participate in the KMMH senior manager on call rota.
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. 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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
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.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex highly emotive situations and those with significantly impaired communication capacities.
- Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial clinical information from a range of sources integrating it into a formulation utilising a variety of psychological perspectives.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
- Adequate keyboard skills and sound understanding of I.T. packages
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Achieved grade will refer to JD depending if Psychologists or Psychotherapists
Desirable criteria
- Achieved grade
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a qualified specialist psychologist / psychotherapist for a minimum of six years in the NHS, including substantial post-qualification experience within the speciality where the post is located.
- Experience of minimum of 100 hours specialist clinical supervision in this area of practice
- Experience of providing supervision on psychological work to MDT staff & psychological practitioners.
- Experience of working successfully in a multi-disciplinary team context, providing clinical leadership and promoting effective team working.
- Experience of managing applied/assistant psychologists and psychological therapists
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice, post incident debriefs and complex case discussions
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
- Dr James Osborne
- Job title
- Head of Psychology for Acute Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07769711694
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