Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed term contract will end 4 June 2027)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK435-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Grove
- Town
- Ramsgate
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
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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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.
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to support Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation work in In-patient Rehabilitation Services in East Kent!
You will provide psychological intervention to two in-patient rehab units: The Grove & Rivendell.
We can support newly qualified staff through regular high-quality supervision, alongside the opportunity to develop clinical skills and work creatively with service users.
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.
Main duties of the job
You will join the multi-professional teams in delivering the rehabilitation program in line with evidenced based practice. Your goal will be to assist individuals with severe mental health problems to re-establish their lives in the community. The post offers opportunity for individual therapy with psychosis and other co-morbid difficulties, family work and group work.
There will be opportunities to joint work with team members, offer reflective practice & facilitate team case formulation sessions.
The Rehabilitation teams value a psychological approach to service delivery so you can be assured of a warm welcome to the service.
The service provides intensive, multidisciplinary assessment, treatment and care to adults with complex psychosis. The team work collaboratively with service users to develop person-centred care plan focusing on individual goals for recovery. Individual and group interventions and personalised social and vocational activities in the community are central to the therapy programme. The goal is to support individuals in their recovery journey and to empower them with the knowledge and skills to ensure their recovery is sustainable in their local community
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
Essential Qualifications and Experience
Candidates must hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Qualification (or its equivalent as accredited by BPS/HCPC), and have experience of adult mental health & psychosis interventions. Trainee Clinical psychologists who will be qualifying in 2026 can apply for this role.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
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).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate & Registration
- Specialist Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Years of NHS Experience
- AMH/ Rehab/psychosis experience
- Psychometric testing
- MDT working
- Treatment modalities (e.g. CBT, Family work, groupwork)
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Meena McGill
- Job title
- Lead for Psychological Practice
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 075 356 549 88
- Additional information
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