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Trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP)

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 15 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 14 Awst 2025
Lleoliad: Maidstone, ME16 9QQ
Cwmni: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 7326869/380-WK0299

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A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.


We are seeking to recruit a number of Trainee Clinical Associate Psychologists across our sites in Kent and Medway.

You will undertake a structured programme of learning with Essex University Partnership Trust, including personal study, academic work, placement learning and assessment leading to the award of an MSc in Clinical Associate Psychology and employment as a Clinical Associate Psychologist (Band 6). The training is 18 months in duration and the post holder will be employed as a Trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (Band 5). On successful completion of the training, you will be employed as a Clinical Associate Psychologist (Band 6). You will undertake specialised psychological assessments, treatments and other types of clinical intervention appropriate to this level of training with individual & groups of service users.

There are five posts that are being recruited to: three posts are in Liaison Psychiatry (In either Maidstone, Thanet, or Medway Services), one post in the West Kent Early Intervention for Psychosis service and one post in East Kent Rehabilitation Service.

For the Rehab and EIP vacancies, the successful applicants 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).

Successful applicants will need to be in post by the end of October 2025.

As a trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP), you will be committed to both working with service users in the service where you are employed and undertaking your training towards a Clinical Associate Psychologist.

Your working role includes contributing to the provision of psychological assessment, formulation, individual and group intervention in the service in which you are based. A key part of the role is also supporting teams with developing their psychological perspective through contributing to case discussions, training, and consultation. There will be opportunities for service evaluation and development. You will work closely with the existing psychologists/psychotherapists and multidisciplinary teams.

As is typical of the apprenticeship model, the majority of the practical learning takes place in the students' workplace, with students released for a day each week to attend the academic programme. A blended Learning approach is taken, with both in-person and remote teaching and workshops.

CAPs are trained to work with clients specific to their workplace, including those with complex and enduring conditions, and to be able to conduct evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention within their scope of practice, under supervision. Once qualified, they are able to develop independent working, under the supervision of a registered Practitioner Psychologist who retains clinical responsibility for their case load.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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You will be engaged in providing highly specialist psychology services to adults with severe and enduring mental health problems, their families and carers.

You will work semi-autonomously alongside Psychology colleagues.

The role will involve the provision of psychological therapy, consultation, and the delivery of training. The role also involves monitoring and evaluation.

You will work in collaboration with colleagues, service users, carers, the Multidisciplinary teams and other services and partner organisations towards the overall provision of evidence-based, cost effective service.

You will provide direct interventions such as psychological assessments and brief psychological interventions, psychology groups, as well as indirect interventions such as case discussions and serious incident debriefs.

You will provide clinical leadership, assist in service development, and contribute to decision-making processes whilst also offering highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation.

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.


This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Jul 2025

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